Whittaker was everything in this film

Rating: 8/10 (3 September 2007)

A truly great performance from the versatile Forest Whittaker, in a film which was good rather than exceptional (a description I would apply to Blood Diamond also, with neither film quite reaching the heights of Hotel Rwanda in the mini genre of African atrocities). I found the soundtrack slightly bizarre and out of place, almost a bit too jolly, and the young Scottish doctor could have been played in a way which would have created more sympathy for his predicament from the viewer. All that said, this was worth seeing for the performance of Whittaker alone, who not for the first time was utterly mesmerising. Cinematography also first class.