Son's Will

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.

This movie is significantly better than the director's last movie, and you can clearly see it.

The pacing is good, the movie never feels like its dragging along, the cinematography, music, and honestly most of the sets are really well done considering the monetary and location limitations, most important part is that cgi never really took me away from what was happening.

The world is interesting, and there is a lot to explore in it, but that's currently my biggest issue with the movie;

At some points of the movie we get lore dumps, to the point that you don't know whats happening and who's who, especially in the seed people backstory, the narrator doesn't help either - please don't ever use the narrator in a movie.

Despite what a lot of people say, the runtime is not too long, it just needed to be used better, the audience doesn't need to know everything, condense the story, only tell the most important details, or only show the stories important to the movie but do it properly.

Some actors were pretty bad, but they were not in the story for a long time so that makes it slightly better.

I have a lot more gripes with the movie and how it was made but you get the point.

All in all, the movie is a good stepping stone to an actually really good next movie from this team, and I'm actually excited for it.

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!

For the past couple of years, we've been served mostly similar (read: the same) genres from Serbian cinematography-crime dramas, war stories, or rural comedies. This show, however, brings something fresh to the table. It introduces a new narrative approach and a more nuanced storytelling style that's definitely worth your time. My advice is to watch the full 8-episode series, as it broadens the scope of the story, develops characters more deeply, and fills in important details that really bring the plot together. A refreshing change and a must-watch for post-apocaliptic, Sci-Fi genre fans (myself!)!

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?