Nothing memorable and visually uninteresting

Rating: 3/10 (4 January 2007)

This film makes me doubt a lot about this kind of docudrama (which seems to be «en vogue» at Hollywood), I mean about its reason to be done. The acting was completely unconvincing and the script predictable. Just to point a precise moment, the speech of Solomon Vandy to his son in the gun-threat scene was almost ridiculous and it could be great. Also Danny Archer was far from being the «tough guy» deeply troubled by his dark childhood in Africa (I appreciated the irony of stop smoking in the last minutes of the film / before his death: «smoking is dangerous only if you are alive», he used to say). It's a pity that instead of get me worried about what is happening in Africa, the film only get me bored. I would prefer to see instead a straight documentary on National Geographic and it would be memorable.