Having watched the trailer, I was really looking forward to this title, but was again disappointed by Cro cinema. The theme is somewhat similar to the fabulous Pan's Labyrinth, but the similarity ends there. The story just does not flow. I was left with an overall feeling of a choppy, disjointed, first-draft-like work. While I wasn't too bothered by the outdated feel of special effects, the cinematography and the script kept jolting me out of the story with abrupt cuts and a rigid, almost artificial language that tries to sound authentic of that region, but mixes standard Croatian into the dialect making it very unconvincing.
I watched the film with two other adults and one child of 12, and we all came away with the feeling of *meh*. For me, this definitely wasn't worth my time nor money. Giving it 6 stars, as it wasn't unwatchable, but it doesn't deserve a 7 in my book, as that's reserved for movies that manage to entertain me, as this one didn't.
I watched the film with two other adults and one child of 12, and we all came away with the feeling of *meh*. For me, this definitely wasn't worth my time nor money. Giving it 6 stars, as it wasn't unwatchable, but it doesn't deserve a 7 in my book, as that's reserved for movies that manage to entertain me, as this one didn't.
