One of the best films I've seen. Very realistic

Rating: 10/10 (7 January 2006)

This movie depicts the reality of the world arms trade very well, and mostly with excellent accuracy. The main criticism I could level at it is that the script softens the horrific reality of Liberia and Sierra Leone to make it palatable. I suspect that a more accurate depiction of the child soldiers hacking out each others livers and hearts to eat while the fallen from the other side was still alive would have been politically unacceptable in the USA. And so false history is made because of political squeamishness.
But aside from that, it is very well done and really accurate. That probably explains why critics didn't like it much. Most critics haven't got much of a clue about reality since they live in movieland.