http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/mo ... ref=moviesThis is Ms. Jolie’s directing debut — she also wrote and co-produced the movie — and there’s a somewhat awkward instructional, at times almost proselytizing aspect to the story that seems of a piece with her laudable humanitarian work.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review ... lie-274786It's clear within the first few minutes of In the Land of Blood and Honey, a blunt and brutal look at genocide and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early 1990s, that this is a serious piece of work and not simply a vanity project for its debuting writer-director, Angelina Jolie. But while the personal story at its core carries some nuanced shadings, this impressively mounted production gradually reveals itself first and foremost as a compendium of atrocities, a catalogue of pointless abuse and killings no one did much to stop for three years.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movie ... reviewNum1Angelina Jolie makes an impressive writing and directing debut with "In the Land of Blood and Honey," an ambitious if not entirely fully realized drama about the 1990s war in the former Yugoslavia.
Skeptics pooh-poohing the idea of the world's most glamorous star dealing with such serious subject matter will be disappointed that the picture is far more somber, rigorous and humane than they could have expected. Unfolding as a taut military thriller, the film possesses surprising touches of realism. As a chronicle of senseless cruelty, suffering and the stark indifference of a paralyzed international community, Jolie's earnest depiction of Serbian atrocities against Bosnian Muslims feels like equal parts rebuke and cautionary cri de coeur.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertain ... 845.column"In the Land of Blood and Honey" is coming from a different place. It isn't trying to sell us anything except a clear, blunt depiction of what so many women in so many countries must face when rape becomes an instrument of war. The story involves more than that, and the script's not particularly vivid. But the best of the film, including the first 20 minutes, puts the audience through hell — honorably, I'd say.
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/revi ... y-20111229In the Land of Blood and Honey wants to lay the truth out there, about the women assaulted and the men slaughtered. What we see of America is mostly the blind eye it shows to the atrocities. To quote then-Secretary of State James Baker, "We got no dog in this fight." Well, Jolie is at war with that kind of indifference. At times, Jolie rises to the pulpit when she should stay on the ground. Her theme is too complex for her scattered screenplay to encompass. It's as a director that Jolie shines.
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