Who gave this piece of CRAP a thumbs up?

Rating: 1/10 (19 January 2006)

First of all when you have to resort to narration to explain your movie, you don't have a movie. Just because you have a really good actor playing the main role doesn't make it a good movie either. Yes there is a message - don't sell guns. They hurt people. Duh. You can have a guy in a clown suit come out and show that message on a sign. Are we really supposed to be impressed with a character who is rich enough to rent his own jet but not buy it? The six lines the woman gets to say in her role do not construct a character. "I've been pretty all my life and that's all I do" pretty much explains what she's doing there.
To me this movie is a cross between "Blow" with Johnny Depp and "Road to Perdition" with Tom Hanks except without any depth or craftsmanship. Add to that a depressing story that ends tragically and you have a complete waste of time and money. If you want to see an exciting story about the egregious violence in Africa that makes sense and is well done see "The Interpreter" with Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn.