Skinning (2010)

The Worst Film Ever

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

SKINNING is a cheap-as-chips skinhead drama from Serbia, of all places. Like most skinhead and Neo-Nazi films out there, the protagonist is a youthful innocent who gets drawn into a skinhead crowd and thus a world of violence and hatred. If you like this type of story, I'd recommend checking out the likes of THIS IS ENGLAND instead, as this film won't satisfy. It's cheap and grubby, much like AMERICAN HISTORY X but without the characterisation or depth.

SISANJE is a story of a young Belgrade high school math champ Novica who gets seduced into the world of skinheads by their charismatic leader Relja. Novica joins the gang of racist skinheads in an attempt to overcome the geek status in school but soon enough he is sucked into the world of racism, violence and hooliganism, the skinhead movement takes him over and eventually he starts climbing up the ladder in the skinhead hierarchy. Skinning is a Serbian film that talks about skinheads but unfortunately the whole story it tries to tell is pretty mediocre and the same thing goes for the acting for example Bojana Novakovic who starred alongside Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness is in this movie and the only thing she does is to screw this guy called Novica our main character unlike films such as American History X that tells a similar story that worked very well in this film we have nothing like that we just have mediocre action, suspense and even sex scenes that feel kinda out of place it tried hard to tell a story and have impact on it's viewers but it failed and i really don't get the point on why this film was released in 3D in Serbia it makes no sense at all. By far the best thing about the movie were the Posters of Terminator 2 and 300 and there's a really good reference to 300 unfortunately the ending completely ruined that reference.

Skinning is a movie about skinheads in Serbia. Even if you haven't been acquainted with skinhead subculture or Serbia it quickly becomes apparent that the authors took a lot of liberties which, in turn, were necessary to create a feature film interesting to broader audience.In this sense, Skinning is a work of fiction although it borrows heavily from reality. It tells a bleak story about rough young people. As it usually is the case, soon the politicians and secret service step in to manipulate them. What i particularly liked is that Skinning never became vulgar nor sought undeserved attention by explicit scenes of sex and violence.Eventually, the actress who caught my attention was Bojana Novakovic. You might also see her deliver an excellent performance in Burning Man (2011) playing next to Matthew Goode.

OK I'm guessing that in Serbia this film is quite intense and serious but i'm from England and the English dubbing/voice acting that came with the DVD was very very bad to say the least. It didn't suit the characters or what they were saying to the point it became very funny. Imagine a really intense skinhead film with strong graphic violence with a load of cockney cab drivers doing the voice acting? Very funny. For a low budget film though it has got everything a Neo-Nazi film should have it has good character development, strong violence and an enjoyable plot.. Looking past the dubbing it looked really serious which i'm guessing only a Serbian would find thrilling but in my opinion it was just funny but it entertained me enough to watch until the end.