In the Land of Blood and Honey
Metascore
56 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 29 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 29
  3. Negative: 4 out of 29
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  1. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Andrew Schenker
    Dec 18, 2011
    38
    When does intensity and commitment supersede historical understanding?
  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    Dec 22, 2011
    33
    It's a film of shuddering earnestness and fevered good intentions gone awry, a dreary slog of a message movie with little but noble if unfulfilled aspirations to commend it.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    Jan 5, 2012
    25
    A mix of the powerful and the ridiculous, and eventually the ridiculous wins. The movie deals with a big subject that has received scant treatment in movies - the genocide in Bosnia in the 1990s - giving voice and testimony to what happened there. But the ill-conceived fictional elements take the picture right off the rails.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Karina Longworth
    Dec 20, 2011
    10
    The denouement that sorts it all out moves from predictable tragedy to ludicrous redemption; closing titles confirm that the motivating intent in making In the Land of Blood and Honey was activist rather than artistic.

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User Score
2.9 out of 10

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 73 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 28
  3. Negative: 15 out of 28
  1. Sasha62
    1
    For the trained or informed viewer the message becomes utterly
    predictable only after the introduction part of the story. After that
    it is hig    hly insulting for the Serbs and all factually informed people
    who personally know about civil war, especially about that tragic
    region more than what the average Western viewer will ever be allowed
    to know via their usually available media sources that are not
    objective no matter how many times they are keen to repeat that fib.
    Seriously good acting and good standard directing for a cherry-popping
    movie for Jolie... I wish Angelina could have done it so much better
    and fairer with her not really informative story line in her debut that
    smells of dubious and occasionally even obvious subjectivity during her
    "research" period. On the other hand; if Madonna can get a Golden Globe
    for a song nobody really knows, I would not be surprised if she gets an
    Oscar for a movie nobody will remember. As long some positive PR spin
    done for US policy no matter how deeply stereotypically hypocritical it
    is. It's all a game for that part of that franchise; a cruel game of
    mirror-mirage distortion in pursuit of the Holy dollar no matter how
    dirty or otherwise contaminated the financier's banknote really is and
    where it is coming from. Really exposing debut for such a talented
    actress and director but from an unexpected and rather dark angle...    … Full Review »
  2. nkprav
    0
    Hollywood history. Topic of this story is subject to much heated debate among historians, lawyers and politicians and one, Hollywood actress is trying to tell us the story in oversimplified and one sided way, which wouldn't be too dangerous if this was some action movie. But this film, pretends to be serious and historical, and one by watching it does not get the full pictures about the events during the period.… Full Review »
  3. bomco011
    0
    Movie made from one sided view, without any desire to understand and explain to the viewers reality and tragedy of all sides involved in that tragic war… Full Review »
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