Son's Will

Like sword ... like the same? Well no pun intended, though that is more for my summary headline. This is a postapocalyptic movie - from Serbia! It is quite violent, but nothing can shock anyone who may have seen a different kind of movie from Serbia (from 2010 that is).

There is also one actor who played in that movie and is back again for this one. He played a terrific villain back then - and he still got it. This builds quite the fantasy and mythology around itself and a certain sword. Mixing eastern tradition with western authoritarian and societal structures. Well you could do worse than watching this - especially considering how good it looks (and I don't necessarily refer to the actors, though they are a fine bunch of people too).

Since it is the first serbian movie of thing, I can give it three stars,otherwise,it hardly deserves one. The actors are average,the scenes and atmosphere are good,aometimes excelent,but the plot is so boring and fails to deliver at the end. Believe me,you will forget what the movie was about in two weeks,that is how faint impression it leaves. And when I think that I wanted to go to the cinema to watch it,what a waste of time it would have been!

Honestly, this is the most original premise which I have seen in quite a few years. It combines cultural ethnic legacy through the musical instrument "gusle " (single string fiddle) and "guslar "- gusle's player, with the utopian environment of mad max 2, but rather than having Mad max atmosphere, rhis movie (series, actually) more leaning towards Badlands direction.

Why I said "series actually"? Because movie is unfortunately made as a promo for the series and movie itself looks messy when it comes to the story narrative a lot of things are not explained by the end of the movie.

While series, in the other hand, is nailing it!!!! Narrative is strong, acting is good, story is unfolding the way it should.

The only thing I didn't like is clearly low budget. As I already said, this story has potential to be recognized as one of the best in utopian sci fi genre ever, and execution is quite good, but the small budget made it not to shine to its full potential

Therefore, in giving 10/10 for the series, because budget shouldn't be taken into consideration when talking about masterpieces, especially when talking about the first movie ever if this genre, probably in 500 miles perimeter.

Movie...6/10.

The movie may end up being more important than good.

While it is a bit unfair to hold the Serbian production to those same standards we expect from more advanced environments, its still the same scale we have to use for both.

The movie is not good in the most strict sense. Had it beed pumped out of Hollywood it would probably earn anywhere between 4,5 and 5,5. There are too many plotholes, characters are being introduced randomly with no depth or logic within the context, and acting is often subpar.

However, depending on the reception of the audience, it could mark the beginning of the fantasy genre proper in Serbian production. The whole endeavor took some serious cojones to even begin filming, with limited language reach and national audience not properly prepared or built for the genre. In those terms, everyone must respect what has been done here.

Had it been a bit shorter, I would have thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it in the theater.

Lets hope it kickstarts the new wave of fantasy pieces in this part of the world.

First and foremost, I can't express how proud and grateful I am to everyone involved in making this film. This is a huge step for Serbian, and I dare say ex-Yugoslav, cinema, and it fully deserves praise in that regard.

I absolutely disagree with other reviews that mention bad acting. On the contrary, the casting was fantastic, and most of the actors did an excellent job. This film also showed me how many "cinematic" actors we have, those whom the camera truly loves (the Bencina brothers for example). Let's be clear, this isn't a movie where anyone's acting is supposed to stand out, and it doesn't need to. Yes, there were a few lines of dialogue that made me raise an eyebrow in dismay, but that's negligible. What was truly irritating, loud, and downright ridiculous was: "OBJAVA KULE, OBJAVA KULE" repeated every 10 minutes by a Santa Claus figure holding a vacuum cleaner pipe.

The special effects in this film are either a hit or a major miss. For example, some fight scenes with lots of blood look incredibly professional and have the aesthetic this film should aim for-it doesn't look cheap, which is very important. However, some basic scenes, which have been done countless times in both high-budget and low-budget films, look like a cartoon here. Specifically, I'm referring to the machine gun shooting scene, for instance.

The sound is good, and the music is excellent. My only small criticism regarding the music is that the gusle (a traditional Serbian instrument) weren't incorporated more throughout the entire film, as it is precisely the instrument through which the storyteller narrates the tale.

Where this film earns my biggest criticism-and hence the lower rating-is in its editing, or more precisely the reason behind it: a trend in our cinema, present since the release of "Montevideo, Bog te video", of turning films into series. This film, however, seems to have done the opposite. A 2.5-hour film is paced so quickly that I fear the average shot length would be alarmingly short if analyzed thoroughly. An epic story like this, with a solid concept or at least the ambition to compare itself to films like "Mad Max" or "Dune", should never have allowed itself to be butchered by such rapid cuts, especially since this type of film is appearing on our screens for the first time.

The title of this review, a line spoken by one of the characters to the storyteller, "Tell him to speed up a bit, we don't need to know everything," is the very irony this film has suffered. Quite the opposite-I was drawn into the story and wanted to know everything, slowly and at my own pace, rather than watch a 2.5-hour trailer that feels like a setup for a series. I'd much rather watch this film split into multiple parts than a butchered version made to resemble a series.

Finally, I have just one question for the creators: Fidget spinner... really?