Right Up There with Hotel Rwanda & A Place in the Sun

Rating: 9/10 (7 October 2007)

It's graphic but there's not a clean, nice way to tell a horrific story. It's riveting as well as giving the viewer a badly needed education about the unimaginable atrocities which are an ugly part of everyday life in 3rd world countries. I don't know how factual it is re: conflict diamonds but the movie motivated me to find out. My only real issue with the film was the line "God left this country a long time ago". Sounds an awful lot like the line from A Place in the Sun where Bruce Willis says "God left Africa a long time ago". Seems to me that the writers could have worked a little harder at being a little more original. Wouldn't something like "God long ago deserted Africa & her people" have been more original & just as powerful? I consider this a greater flaw than technical inaccuracies thus 9 stars out of 10.