boring? too little imagination? sloppy?well...there's always hope for people like you...trouble is, anyone can offer an opinion, right?there's one(and this is only one part)where someone is thinking they're going to a soccer match in another country and wind up waking up dodging bullets and shrapnel in bosnia... sloppy? yes...all that blood and guts tends to get that way... imaginative? you decide... boring? i'm sorry, i'm having trouble typing i'm laughing so hard...this was one of THE most unexpected gems i've ever stumbled upon... what a RANGE of humanity displayed... look, if you're a kid, don't see it...see whatever before you waste space condemning a movie you haven't the experience to process... and you, frustrated woodlawn hills/la person in the beginning of the reviews? i bet you've had a LOT of success there in LALA...makes you the expert/authoritative reviewer, right? gods help us from frustrated no talents who pick up a pen to pull others down to their level... as if that's possible with a film like this... people...see this film if you've got half a soul...

Very contrasting ideas here mixing the violence of the former Yugoslavia with the shallowness of the British upper middle classes. Throw In smack, Tottenham fans on the loose, Immigration, a depressed journalist, snobbery, an overworked doctor a blind kid plus a whole lot more and the result Is an eclectic film that's got enough about It to succeed.The tone does flip wildly from war zone misery to light domestic matters and that can be a little off-putting, and has been mentioned some of the sound work & a few of the accents are dubious at best. Charlotte Coleman Is very good as the central lead even though she Is peripheral to many of the more memorable moments. The dark comedy Is very funny and unlike so many British films It's not a case of "Who's he?" or "what's she been In?". Most of all It's got spirit & conviction, definitely worth persisting with.

I was excited to find this film on cable, since it whipped through my local art house when it was in theaters so fast I had no chance to get to see it. My excitement was justified. I was moved by the film's edge and its talent. It was truly refreshing to see the combination of hand held camera technique and world class acting, with the likes of Linda Basset, Nicholas Farrell and Charlotte Coleman. As an American, who was shielded, as most of us were, from what was really happening in Europe during the Bosnian war of the mid nineties, I felt like a child who was finally getting the real story about a family secret. The presentation of realistic characters in a vibrant and real collage of parallel and interlaced lives, brought the big issues of ethnic hatred, racism, class prejudice and sexism into painful and sometimes humorous focus. I was very happy with the film's conclusion. It brought all those big issues to the table in a brilliant metaphor for the human condition, as it really exists under all the crap. A wonderful movie.

Having many friends and acquaintances from former-Yugoslavia, I was advised to see this movie, and found it funny to say the least. Using the intertwined stories of people more or less affected by the 1990s war, the director paints a great picture of how we humans are, and how much aggressiveness and self-destructiveness are rooted deep in our nature. However, these feelings aren't unavoidable, and this is told without abusing rosey tones (not that the rest of the picture abuses them).