Cetiri ruze

I have never in my life watched a film this stupid and idiotic, I wanted to leave the cinema 10 times. A complete waste of time.

Very refreshing take on Belgrade nightlife told through several intertwining stories. All-star cast of Serbian cinema brilliantly delivers a Tarantinoesque portrait of crime, love, greed and corruption. Special hats-off for the artfulness and precision of the screenwriters Balsa Labovic and Vasilije Nikitovic. A must-see film of modern Eastern European cinema.

Why the bad reviews? I don't get it, it has everything one would want in a film. I'm a big fan of European cinema so this was my cup of tea. It had everything in it from love, greed and of course corruption.

The beginning of the movie tries - to a certain degree of success - to follow narrative of modern crime movies with telling the story through the eyes of one of the protagonists in retrospect, but doesn't deliver in the end. It fell short of providing any substance, in a way that it opens up many questions, touches on many topics, but doesn't build on that and just leaves the audience hanging and wanting more. Writers of the movie are once again slaves to the typical Serbian movie trope, where protagonists have to be some good-for-nothing blokes, who want to go big-time but end up getting involved way more than they initially expected, along with turbo-folk music blaring here and there, and some cheap Serbian hookers as a cherry on top. Four Roses doesn't bring anything new to Serbian, let alone world, cinema, leaving much to be desired, and trying to pander to the audiences tastes by cheap plot, typical vulgar jokes we have heard so many times, and leaving many things unexplained, unanswered and not-built-upon. To sum it up, not worth anyone's time, especially going to the cinema and supporting this piece of crap movie.

Acting in general is nice, but the story is very poor. It is not movie worth watching.