The Maus (2017)

The Maus: Directed by Yayo Herrero. With August Wittgenstein, Alma Terzic, Aleksandar Seksan, Ella Jazz. Alex and Selma are a couple in love on a trip to the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina to discover more about each other. Lost and seemingly surrounded by land mines a pair of locals offer to guide them home.

“And this is one of them.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI kinda got what the director was trying to say and it does work in certain aspects but the film is too dark , depressing and slow.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt is quite visceral and while there isnu0026#39;t a lot of gore and much is left to the imagination, it is in the vein of torture porn akin to movies like Hostel.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt started off quite well and seemed an original setting in Bosnia but the pace is turgid and the lack of subtitles does have a slightly negative effect on the viewer and I speak Slovak and Czech and could understand some of what was being said, it still was annoying and confusing to not know exactly what is being said at times and I know the director was using this for effect but it did not work in my opinion!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIts definitely not a 1 or 2 out of 10 as many of the other reviewers have said but then you cannot legislate for the crash, bang, wallop expectations of the pea brained reviewers who cannot seem to delve into the deeper elements of the subject and story the director was trying to put forth! The acting also was not bad , particularly from the female lead; i though she was excellent contrary once again to all the other reviewers who gave it a poor 1 out of 10 which means its the worst movie you have ever seen which it definitely is not; we have movies like u0026quot;THE BAD BATCHu0026quot; for that!”