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A flimsy screenplay combined with idiotic heroes makes this pretty hard to watch. Without first reading the synopsis, it’s unclear for a long time what’s happening and why, and the separate scenes fit together really badly. From the formalistic point of view, however, Michálek handles the directing well, but here he wasted his skills on a film about nothing. Weirdly, for a comedy, humor is completely missing. A waste of money. (2020.07.21)

A film with a nonsensical and incoherent plot full of bizarre coincidences and errors in continuity. The film’s script is so theatrically broken and inconsistent that it is not only impossible to defend the meaning of many (often very bizarre and incomprehensible) passages, but it is also impossible to unravel the motivations and behavior of the vast majority of the characters, not only within the film as a whole, but often also within individual scenes. Moreover, this so-called black comedy is not funny at all on any level, simply because it does not contain a single joke (verbal or visual) and its source of humor seems to be only the speech of the main characters (very limited vocabulary + "dude" after every other word), and Jiří Lábus's testicles in a marginal role. The main characters are unsympathetic, stupid, vulgar and semi-literate idiots, and the only thing interesting about them are their illegal crimes, during which (sometimes quite violently) they hurt random people (without any comedic stylization). Nevertheless, the film tries in vain to get the audience to cheer for them, to build a positive relationship with them and later to sympathize with them and be afraid for them, which catastrophically misses the mark. In addition, everything happens with the absence of even a hint of morality. The characters constantly commit acts that do not provoke any appropriate reaction (the protagonists of the film are never reported for their actions, none of the characters become better people during the film, if someone breaks a promise it doesn’t matter, when someone deceives someone else and they find out, they bring the person into their group instead of punishing them). The film in fact celebrates the ideologically-insane characters and alibistically justifies their illegal actions by choosing various targets for them, such as poachers or rich businessmen, which the film then presents as "the greater evil", compared to whom the main characters are supposed to be perceived as good people fighting for a better world. The final caption announcing that, according to the BIS annual report, paramilitary groups are forming in the Czech Republic, is supposed to give the audience the impression that the content of the film has something to do with real events and the current situation in the Czech Republic, even though it all takes place outside of any believable reality. (2019.02.20)