Should Have Been Foreign Language

Rating: 7/10 (28 April 2018)

I lived in Sierra Leone. To me, the story borrowed from the Charles Taylor catastrophe that wracked that beautiful country.
I feel that the director took the pidgin English too far. The longer the movie went on the more irritated I became.
I'm sorry to say that by the time it was finished I was of the opinion it was a racist hatchet job by a Western director. It even had me questioning why Idris Elba put his name to this.
On the bright side, the acting performances were good to excellent. The cinematography was often top class too. Just a shame that the movie was undermined by stupid decision to overuse pidgin English.