After watching the movie Third Half, I felt a bitter taste in my mouth like if I have eaten s.th. extremely unpleasant. It seemed to me as if I have traveled back some 30 years ago during the iron curtain and Yugo era when cursing a neighbor nation for anything, no matter if true, was applauded and rewarded. This complete propaganda film is not based on the historic fact that Bulgarians are the only Nation that saved its 50,000 Jews from Nazis, but only on primitive hatred and obscene lie. It is a big shame for Macedonian people, who are generally considered as frank and friendly. My expectations are that after this "movie" has fulfilled the political tasks of Macedonian parties, it will be forgotten very quickly in several months' time.

This movie is one of the best outstanding Macedonian movies ever made in the history of Macedonian cinematography.The Third Half is filled with lots of painful truths assembled in a beautiful love story continued with soccer events that wake up the spirit inside you. It's amazing that this movie so easily creates the cheering effect and you are cheering all the way.While watching the movie i smiled so good, I was laughing out loud at certain extremely funny moments and then I cried. After crying I laughed again, I laughed so sweet I loved the taste of those tears. In the end I cried smiling. This movie creates such strong emotional waves that you are not able to resist the urge to go along with them. We were organized to watch the movie in the USA embassy and I would like to thank all the guys who made this happen.Amazing work of art! Watch it and you will absolutely love it!

About the film itself: I am really disappointed. The film starts with a cliché and ends with a cliché. And whats in the middle? This movie is a terrible copy of some other films, theft of ideas. A big part of the shots, dialogues, scenes were seen at least hundreds of times in other, better movies.About the political side: the fact that terms such as "Bulgarian fascism" etc are in circulation here, in reviews, without compliance with the scientific definition of the fascism, is an evidence of the propaganda purposes of the government of Republic of Macedonia, which financed the film. The Fascism is related to the whole structure of a country, not only with its foreign policy. If it were not so, I want to ask: Was Yugoslavia fascist country before the coup of March 1941. And what about USSR before June 1941?

I was doubtful at first but after watching this movie I can say that it's an eye opener and definitely worth a view. The acting was great. Basically, the only thing I can criticize it on was the fact that they used "football" instead of "soccer". Also the impact of having a fascist country as a neighbor. Don't judge it before you watch it yourself, but it definitely gets 10 stars from me. This is a perfect example of how the Jewish people lived during this time period, in Macedonia or anywhere else. Though I believe Bulgarian criticism for this movie was a tad exaggerated, Bulgaria was a fascist country after all, during World War 2 at least.