Very solid cinema

Rating: 8/10 (1 November 2015)

Greetings from Lithuania.
"Beasts of No Nation" (2015) won't win the Oscar for best picture of the year nor the good leading performance by Idris Elba. Nevertheless it is a very solid film, sometimes brutal about realities in Africa, were children have to become soldiers and they day to day life. Cary Joji Fukunaga does a great job in directing, writing and shooting this film - cinematography is very good in here, it could get Oscar nomination. Directing is very solid, movie almost doesn't drag and is involving from start till finish. Although it was a bit hard to get attached to these kids doing very adult things, performances by young actors (who many of them were real soldiers) were amazing. Movie was shoot on locations and you can clearly see it and feel it. I also loved couple of long and unbroken shoots (they weren't as jaw-dropping as it was in "True Detective" 4th episode of season 1, but they are great in here).
Overall, although "Beasts of No Nation" isn't very original (we kinda saw these stories before), it is a very solid film. It is sometimes bloody as war itself, but it's not gross. Craftmenship of this movie is very good in all directions, and although running time 2 h 13 min are a bit to long, this is very good and watchable movie.