Hatred (2016)

This movie is one of the best movies I ever watched. It is very realistic one, so these people who are used to some kind of positive heroes, you will be disappointed, because there are no heroes or just bad guys in this movie. It is not Hollywood crap about bad and good boys. Nearly every character has good and bad sides. Also this movie shows how Ukrainians can adapt their nationalism and hatred to other people by using different political systems. So I do recommend to watch it everybody, who is interested in history and to learn that not just Jews were victims of WWII and that Ukrainians are not such good as they trying to paint their selves in conditions of such called "Russian aggression".

Movie will be probably marked as 1 on IMDb rating by Ukrainian users of IMDb (same like Promise by Turks?). Ukrainian actors whose played in this movie, lost their's jobs after premiere. Those actors had jobs in Ukrainians theaters. Despite the fact that movie is bloody and brutal it shows only small part of cruelties which Ukrainians done during Wolyn genocide to Poles, Jewish, Czechs and other nations. What is important it shows also good Ukrainians. Why important it is estimated that on five Poles killed there were one Ukrainian who were killed becose he didn't want to kill those Poles. This hero Ukrainians there were at least 20 000. Today loots of Ukrainians are proud to carry half black half red flags and they thinks that Bandera and UPA were heroes. Well they weren't. They were just monsters and butchers whose main passion were killing innocent civilians with forks hammers and saws.

One of the worst films ever made! No plot to follow. Very poor casting. You cannot tell who is who, as many of the male actors look too similar. Then for more confusion, the director/writer throws them into a dark scene so that the viewer really cannot tell who is who or what is going on. Poor writing. Too much time spent on the traditional Ukraine wedding in the beginning of the film which was very boring. Then continuous, senseless killing for the sake of killing throughout the film. This was just a poor attempt to make a Polish version of "Halloween."

Motion pictures set within time and place of a great historical value seems to be the current trend for Polish film makers. Every "patriotic" movie receives a tremendous promotion before it even hits the box office. It was pretty much the same case with "Wołyń". The director seems to be working with the same choice of actors which is a good thing as they can definitely deliver. The performance of the cast makes this sad historical drama gripping. The story which was based on the real (extremely controversial) events is also the key factor of a very positive reception among the viewers. Being aware of the fact that the subject of the story requires careful handling, Smarzowski included several scenes which absolutely don't fit the whole movie causing a bit of a confusion. However, the scenes save the movie from potential political accusations.