A truly spectacular movie

Rating: 10/10 (6 January 2005)

This movie is astounding. The events which it depicts are horrifying and astounding. Don Cheadle delivers an excellent performance and deserves the Oscar, the movie deserves the best film of 2004. It is so critical that a movie like this gets wide viewing in the Western world so people wake up and realise the kind of injustice that goes on outside their borders and in the world around them which they cannot see. With a topic as sensitive as this it was critical to display sufficient amount of horrifying massacre without making it so much that it overpowers the movie and seems like a Save the Children advertisement. The director did a superb job of balancing out the right amount of violence and did so extremely well. I was crying for most of the movie. The light humour interspersed between the tragedy was well placed and essential for both the audience and the accurate portrayal of the scene. Overall one of the best films I have seen in my life, truly, unambiguously. Some less than stellar performances, Mr. Pheonix could have been better (or his role better case) but other than that very few complaints. A must see.