Scanialara
You won't be disappointed!
Huievest
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
CrawlerChunky
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Erica Derrick
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
William
I've seen a few films from this era focused on the topic. Few of those had the impact of this film. As well, I feel it has relevance today.The overall theme, is how do 'normal' people 'wake-up' and consider radical or revolutionary action? Where do (so called) home-grown radicals come from? If we assume babies are born more-or-less innocent(??) What happens? More to the point, in the context of this particular film; why does NOT happen? We play football, we have some drinks, dance at a wedding, etc. Life is good. And sometimes; something-happens.There's a huge ethical question too... When is it OK to be bad, to do good? Is it 'ok(??)' to be 'evil' and feel you are a hero!? You my say, 'No...'; sometimes it will depend. Sometimes history is the decision maker.Watch the movie ... Pray you don't need to make these choices.
SnoopyStyle
It's 1980 South Africa. Patrick Chamusso (Derek Luke) is a coalfield oil refinery foreman trying to keep his head down. When the refinery is bombed, Afrikaner anti-terrorist Colonel Nic Vos (Tim Robbins) investigates. Patrick is falsely imprisoned and tortured along with many others including his wife. He was actually with another woman that night. Eventually they are released. Patrick is angered into joining the ANC and sabotage the refinery himself.This is a good movie because it shows the reason behind Nic Vos. He's not a simple monster which is the easy way to go. Tim Robbins' reserved mannerism keeps him from being a cartoon villain. Instead he is a family man doing evil to protect his world. The investigation isn't unreasonable but the method is brutal. This movie shows how men with reasonable intention can descend into evil brutality.
sweetbrad48
The entire film is a lie. The film is dedicated to Joe Slovo, portrayed in the movie as 'Head of ANC Special Ops', when in actual fact he was the leader of the South African Communist Party, and a Marxist and terrorist through and through. At one point, an ANC 'cadre' instructs his trainees that 'the ANC does not kill indiscriminately', when in actual fact all those thugs ever did was murder civilians in their quest to seize power and reduce South Africa to another Stalinist hellhole. The ANC, and specifically Mandela and Slovo were behind the infamous 'Church Street bombing', that saw a bomb detonated in rush hour Pretoria, killing and maiming scores of innocent men and women - both black and white. The image of Mandela that has been sold to the gullible West has been one of a peaceful uniter, when in actual fact he schooled his followers in the teachings of Marx and Lenin, counts Fidel Castro as a close friend, and has the blood of many people - black and white - on his hands. Both Mandela and Joe Slovo are nothing more than garden variety Marxist thugs, and no amount of revisionist film making will change that.
plagh
I thought story was very entertaining and seemed accurate (I wasn't there) but I disagreed with former comment that Tim Robbins wasn't (or whites in general) racist. The fact that blacks were routinely and deliberately treated as virtually "sub-human" would seem to indicate that the culture in general was RACIST. Adolph Ikeman espoused he was doing "his job" - he wasn't anti Semitic, they just happened to be Jewish!?! Anyway, it is a very good film and the cinematography was excellent - way to go Ron F. I thought the main characters were given their own flaws, just as real people are not all good or bad, and therefore influenced their actions and consequences to themselves & others.
