Locations in Africa and where it was filmed...

Rating: 9/10 (22 January 2007)

I served with the military in Liberia during 2005 and have also been in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and at the border to Guinea. As many African countries it's not always to safe to travel around due to impacts of years of civil war and rage. Despite this I believe that they portrayed the movie very fine with the infrastructure and climate to make it seem like it was shoot in Sierra L. To make an example with the movie "Lord of war" with Nicolas Cage where he goes to Monrovia, Liberia to sell weapons to warlords. Well, for one who's been there several times, patrolling the streets, this was a terrible choice of location when I right away saw that the infrastructure was all wrong and it was shoot God knows where!?
I think it was great movie that shows how civil war and human brutality exceeds anything you possible can imagine. This kind of things happens everyday in the world and we just pass it, zapping with the remote, through all our TV channels. It's definitely worth seeing.