It had all the ingredients

Rating: 9/10 (18 February 2006)

I agree with the person who called this storytelling perfection with one reservation: the pace was a little too stately. I would have cut it a little tighter, but it's hard to decide where to cut. The moral points were a little heavy handed _- of COURSE the life of the bullet ended in the forehead of that young African, where was it going to end? Put it in a window and let the kid duck, that's perfection. One could see most things coming, and most things made perfect sense, but this was a story about a world we know all too well. I would have liked to be surprised a little more, that's all. That said, I did like the flick, I really did.