After the film was shown to non-Serb victims in a special screening in Sarajevo , Murat Tahirović , the head of association of prisoners of war , stated that Jolie " really succeeded in telling the story of the whole war in her film and to show the most characteristic situations that detainees faced – mass executions , rapes , being used as human shields and all the other horrors . " The head of an association of mothers of Srebrenica massacre victims , Hatidža Mehmedović – who had earlier spoken out against Jolie after the media rumours regarding the film – said the final product was " really an excellent movie , " " objective and sincere , " and wanted to " thank Angelina for her intellectual and financial investment . " Talking about the film during an appearance on Croatian talk show '' Nedjeljom u 2 '' , Srđan Dragojević , a Serbian film director , said : " It 's a very bad movie . I find it interesting that someone spent $ 12-13 million for something that in the end looks like those Croatian or Bosniak patriotic propaganda films from the 1990s . '' In the Land of Blood and Honey '' has the historical authenticity of '' ' Allo ' Allo ! '' . It 's completely senseless , badly directed , badly written , and deserves absolutely no attention at all , but for the fact it 's got the name of a global film star attached to it . And having worked in Hollywood and interacted with some if its movie stars , I think I know how this film got made . Being a big star does not always work to your advantage . These people live their sheltered and insular Beverly Hills lives and have very little clue about what 's going on 15 miles away in The Valley , let alone half a world away in Bosnia . This film is a very strange attempt at tackling something you 're absolutely clueless about ; it would be like me writing a story about American suburbia using news reports as the basis . It seems like nobody had enough courage to tell Angelina that during the making of the film "
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