even if one can still see it's a Hollywood movie it has another dimension to it.

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2006)

Okay, so what we have here might be some educational movie for the mainstream audience which is something very good, we have few but enough facts and an overdose of gore reality. Africa is represented as a ruined motherland who's people, white or black, are suffering. All this while the overpopulated capitalist fascist countries live soaked in their own desires and greed. The movie does not intend to mold people's minds,but i think eventually it strikes one or another on the terms of "just where things come from, or how they come from and for what purpose". I think the movie has successfully got the feeling of what a few countries and it's people have gone through and what's still happening in a good part of them. As for the cast, i personally have always disliked Di Caprio but, i have to admit that he might have gotten his second best performance in his actor life (along with the beach). Not only did he give the character some sneakiness but also pure life into it, almost as if he really identified himself with it (not referring to the military moves), it seemed he was used to "cheating" and "smuggling" since the cradle. Jennifer Connelly looked like the angriest and sexiest woman ever like most of her movies, which is not to be surprised having in mind some of her performances. Djimon Hounsou was the biggest revelation in my opinion, sounding in every speech like a true martyr and a real family boss.
I gave it 10/10 not for the performances, although they were way above average, but for the educational purposes of the movie, it combined a great story with good characters and the sadness of our world's reality.