Very cheap, pale and unconvincing. The plot is obviously inspired by the assassination of the ex-communist state oil company INA top manager Djurekovic, but the details has been changed unnecessary and without a purpose. SDB (secret Yugoslav intelligence service) did not recruit some labile drug addicts and pickpockets for hunting and murdering immigrants but top criminals instead of that. They did not use the addle-brained old men for that either. It is ridiculous that the character of the professional killer, Dragicevic, goes to Austria to kill a Croatian immigrant and brings his file with him, and browses it in the car (it would never happen in the real life). Main characters are shallow and one-dimensional, they look as if they don't have a private life, but plan assassinations all the time. Furthermore, they are stiff and they act unnaturally and artificially. Numerous details make the whole story unconvincing, almost humorous; Hundreds staff members were employed in the SDB headquarter but Biscan always comes to the empty building. Same thing for the Kockica building (the Croatian communist party headquarters), empty building with a few cleaning women. Whenever the characters meet in the bars or restaurants, they are the only guests and the objects are completely empty, even without the barmen. In real life it would be impossible that the character of captain Uzelac of the military intelligence agency speaks anything but strong Serbian language and in the show he speaks with Croatian Zagreb accent. Besides that, in real life military secret service has never interfered with the civil one. Biscan has an aquarium in his apartment and put the fish food in it but there is no fish in the aquarium. A woman is awakening after a party by the numerous empty bottles of alcoholic drinks and first thing that she does in the morning she grabs a bottle of vine and drinks it.
Review of Guardian of the Castle
