Expected better

Rating: 5/10 (29 December 2015)

I watched this movie expecting to be shocked, surprised, maybe disgusted. Now then, the filming is good. Some scenes, like the ones in Liberia, shine in particular for the way they are pictured. The story however stinks of predictability. They want you to hate the protagonist and his despicable moral choices. This is perfectly OK. But there are several scenes where what was going to happen played out in my head just before it did on the screen. The movie pulls low punches on your conscience and sometimes it backfires. It does when at the end the way this story is told makes you think "nonsense, it's not really like this". And there are several parts when it does. I expected more. I would say, not so thoughtful, surely overrated, some cools / funny / ironic scenes (which is why I gave it a 5 and not a lesser vote).