No Man's Land
No Man's Land
R | 07 December 2001 (USA)
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Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?

Reviews
SunnyHello Nice effects though.
Dorathen Better Late Then Never
Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.
DubyaHan The movie is wildly uneven but lively and timely - in its own surreal way
deltaop Sometimes the theme of the film has a more powerful impact on the audience, rather than the story or style. In the case of "No Man's Land", human morality which postulates the senselessness of war, was the successful driving force. This film has a healthy dose of humor for a war flick. So much so that it seems that the director is trying to force the savagery of the bloody Bosnian Civil War through the filter of irony and hilarity. The effect is that the film draws you in from the very start as jittery soldiers crack jokes about pessimism, foggy weather and bald heads. Additionally, The acting was brilliant throughout the flick which involves a pan-European cast. Most notable were the roles of Cici and Nino that were memorably played. What I really liked seeing was how Nino got more and more aggressive as the movies draws on, far from the the meek person we saw in the opening sequences. All in all, NML is a fresh breath in war movies as the utilization of pathos and pyrotechnics is minimal. The movie instead utilizes the canvas of tragicomedy to paint a vivid, realistic picture of the effects of war. Definitely deserved the Oscar it got. Amelie won't leave you pondering the way this movie does.
petarmatic This the only movie I will rate 10 out of 10. Why you will ask yourselves? It is simple. I had the same idea, and if I became a movie director I would of made that film.I knew Danis Tanovic since we were teenagers. He is a great person in every sense! A real gem of this world, rare to find in this dangerous world of ours. Since the war came to our unfortunate land I came up with the idea for this film and idea for a movie that later became Circus Columbia. I told Danis if we are to survive the war he or I will make those films. He went on to be successful movie director and I well, film critic on IMDb.com. I did not think that Danis was to succeed. There was so much going against him. Serbs wanted to get a piece of his Muslim butt, like all Muslims he was a target to be executed when captured by the remnants of the Yugoslav Army which quickly turned into Serb Army. Luckily that did not happen, Serbs failed to kill or chase out of Bosnia-Herzegovina all Muslims and Croats they wanted to. And look at him, Danis is an Oscar winning movie director! What to say but congratulations and felicitations! The film is perfect in every sense, a true anti war film. It makes you wish that people should not wage war on each other, but it seems impossible wish. The only way to experience that masterpiece is to watch the film yourselves. Pleaase make your lazy Anglo-Saxon butts read and understand the dialog. It really is a gem! And if you want to find that no mans land in the real life take a drive between Trebinje, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Dubrovnik, Croatia. It is a true no mans land!
Armand it is a war film. but out of usual definition. an analyze of its roots. picture of solitude. and map of limits. three men. a war. and UN force. words, expectation, fear, friendship, cowardice, insecurity, and image of West about barbarian Balkans. can be Kusturica if the image was not so bitter. because, more than artistic work, it is slice of many existences. with crumbs of Beckett or Ionesco, with shadows of blind politics, with mixture of hate and desire to be more than silhouette on a battle camp. the story is smart, the performance - real good. drawing of survive, it remains testimony about traces of deep tragedy. and question. about values and sense , about price of sacrifice and role of insignificant accidents.
namik-ramani I saw this early this morning at the a film festival in Gotemburg.The director was there and all.It's a very frightening anti-war film that has three main characters two of them are Bosnian's and one of them is a Serb.They are soldiers but also normal men.And war makes hate.This is a very symbolic film I would call a masterpiece.Those three persons together shows what war is:HELL.The director Danis Tanovic himself says that it's of course about just this war but it's not like if you see this film in ten years you wont understand it.During their time on no man's land they are civil to each other but the conflict continues and in the end that's what is most important.The final scene of the film is superb.A film that will go to film history.Worth to see by everyone