Who payed the critics

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

An expressionist, graphic retelling of true events during 1943 when 628 villages and its inhabitants were destroyed by invading German forces. The director was on a mission to bring the terrible acts to light; he bluntly and angrily portrays the mania and brutality of the German SS and the genocidal attitudes of the German soldiers. The protagonist, a boy hoping to defend his family, offers resiliance and dignity, and but endures the anguish of war. There is some light relief too showing the camaraderie of the unfortunate beleagured souls, and his lot as a boy in a man's war.

This is based on actual events that happened on the Eastern Front in WW2. The Nazi deeds were monstrous.The suffering of the civilians and common atrocities were done in the name of Hitlers crazy ideology. Ethnic cleansing and industrialized murder were commonplace. This is based on the brutal reality that caused casualties on this front of more than 30 million . Mans depravity as seen thru the eyes of a teenager. A coming of age movie set in an apocalyptic time period. This movie has some Russian quirks but still rates as a monumental film.

I will not write about the movie per se. This is my answer to those reviewers who claim that the movie is unrealistic, Soviet propaganda and so on. I will tell one story I heard from the residents of the small Byelorussian town called Starodub. They told me that during German occupation German police caught a woman who supplied information to the local partisans. She was interrogated but kept silent. Then Germans brought her to the watch-tower at the local fire station so that she could see how they will burn her house. She had three kids. Germans told her that they will throw them into the fire and let her to watch it unless she will give information about the whereabouts of the partisans. And when she refused they tied her elderly son and threw him into the fire. After that the woman jumped down from the tower committing suicide and thus saving lives of the other two kids. It is up to you to believe this story or not but I don't see the reason why the residents of the town (not just one but several) would lie to me. In other words, if you are spoiled by the good life naiveté - you may continue to be one or you may wish to become more educated. Make a choice.

Come and See follows a young Belarusian Flyora who wants to join the army and fight in the war. From then on Floyra's life and whole universe change to a point of no return.This won't be a very long review but this film had me going. Truly one of this most terrifyingly realistic war films i have ever seen. A child soldier who wanted to willingly fight, and all we do is watch as war takes everything that makes a young boy innocent away from him.This film extremely captivates the reality of war. I was left silent through out the whole film almost horrified by some of the incidents occurring on the screen. The Directing, Acting, EVERYTHING is just extremely captivating. There's so much i could say about this film but i want to try and leave this film completely spoiler free.All i can say is when you see this film, you will never forget it and though this film may be extremely horrific with some scenes its definitely a great piece of cinema. Truly Powerful.