The Weight of Chains (2010)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

A potentially interesting subject utterly let down by a very one-sided version of history with little attempts to provide balance.His failure to really engage with the issue of Srebrenica casts doubt on the rest film. Any film about Balkans can not allow this massacre to be swept away by claiming it was "western staged".Anyone who has travelled in the area could not described the EU expansion as simply negative. There are opinions on both side, but broadly people are in favour of the EU.Similarly the narrator's description of Yugoslavia as a paradise is backed up only by a few interviews with elderly people, hardly an endorsement of his argument.

...How one movie can try to make up for all bad things during the war in former Yugoslavia. This movie is based on some really ridiculous history statements, as well as "facts" about the war that happened almost 20 years ago.I'm a Croat, and I was unfortunate to live during this war. This move has some true facts, like western powers really wanted to break Yugoslavia into smaller republics, but it lacks some other facts like all money in Yugoslavia going to Belgrade. That and some other things made Croats, Bosnians and especially the Slovenians (richest republic in Yugoslavia) really mad.Movie also tells you chetniks were freedom fighters. Chetniks were like ustashe - fascists. Partizans on the other hand were communists, and were lead by Tito, a Croat, one more thing author of this move forgot to mention. He also forgot about communist crimes against Italians, Croats, Muslims and even Serbs that didn't want communist party.But then again, all this movie tries to achieve is to reduce Serbian guilt. He forgot to mention Z4 plan for Serbians in Croatia. Plan was that Serbs had some autonomy, but remain in Croatia. They rejected that. Also, they expelled all Croats from theirs so called republic "Krajina". He also forgot to mention that in Vukovars population over 90% were Croats, and Serbs bombed the hell out of that city. They completely destroyed it.On the other hand, Croats did a lot of bad things to. And any decent man should recognize that and be ashamed coz of it.But one fact remains. Not even one bomb was dropped on Serbia. Serbia invaded first Croatia, then Bosnia. I have friends in Serbia, and friends that are Muslims in Bosnia. And I don't care about their nationality or their religion. Everything today is political, and we can see political propaganda everywhere. This movie could have been great, but instead, it's just one big political propaganda with little to no respect to more than 200 000 casualties during the war 20 years ago. Shame on the author, even tough he probably doesn't care at all.

What is the point of this documentary, viewers might ask them selves; what is the point of this misinterpretation of history? What the hell, for crying out loud? Why would somebody produce such a piece of crap? For what purpose? The answer is bluntly simple; the Serbs are trying, very poorly indeed, to wash their bloody hands. I am sorry guys but this lame attempt just fails like every attempt that came from your Serbo-Goebbels kitchen... You guys are guilt as it gets. Grow some balls, look yourself in the mirror and admit it. You are the sole responsible for the blood and gore of the Balkans. You made the mess and you were punished. Stop wining and deal with it. There could be some dignity in saying the truth, Germans pulled it out when they admitted that they were the culprits of the II WW horrors, at least they are honest ones.People who appreciate this collection of denials are either seriously uninformed or Serbian nationalists refusing to admit the obvious. There is no such thing as Great Serbia, there never was, there never will be. Snap out of it and start living in the 21. century. Jeeez. There is no world wide antiserbian conspiracy, no body wants to destroy you, you were never important. The whole Balkan area was never important, get that in your thick heads. The only real thing about you, the thing you cannot run away from, are your bloody hands. Lying and hiding them will do you no good.If you want some unbiased view on the fall of, once an important state of Yugoslavia, take a look at BBC's The Death of Yugoslavia. Do not waste time on this atrocity.

Very informative account of the events that led up to the break up of Yugoslavia as well as the events that took place during and after the wars. The background historical information that helps put things into context was very useful too.The film presents very well the fact that at the time and for obvious reasons the Western and Yugoslav politicians as well as the Western mass media played their role very well towards the break up. This is especially true in the West were the public had to be convinced for the necessity of the break up and intervention. I see several parallels with what is currently (Dec 2011) happening to a lot of European countries that are struck by the Capitalist crisis.