Too Brutal

Rating: 3/10 (5 December 2016)

I completely understand that this movie reflects real tragedy happening now in most African countries - on one hand, we see dictators who have accumulate their countries' wealth in their hands and use their power/military to get richer and repress anyone who gets on the way and on the other hand uneducated power-hungry disconnected oppositions with each believing that it is the sole owner of these resources and therefore entitled to everything that its country has at whatever cost. But, in the meantime, I don't think it was necessary to show all these brutal scenes that I found very discouraging and inconvenient. I was even thinking about inviting my son to watch it together, but I am glad I didn't do this. Anyway, I stopped watching it after seeing how a little girl who was hiding with her mother was tortured and after that I don't know what happened. Yes, we get it and nowadays there are many resources to learn about child soldiers and all the brutalities taking place in the continent. So, was it necessary to include these inhumane vicious scenes? I don't think so! To me it was just an attempt to gain cheap reputation.