The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The acting in this movie is really good.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I watched the trailer for this and thought 'Hey, that looks like a reasonable film.' It's about an ex CIA agent who's hired to look into an illegal massacre in a South American country, which may or may not have been carried out on the orders of a large conglomerate. It has Andy Garcia and Forest Whitaker in it (both well capable of putting in good performances), so it seemed to have a lot going for it.However, it was one of the most run-of-the-mill films I've ever watched. Not only did the trailer address every plot point along the way, but there was nothing vaguely different enough about it to make it stand out.It has a message - one that smacks you in the face as if it was Avatar promoting 'save the trees' - only this time it's about how big businesses rampage all over the world, not caring who they trample on along the way.A Dark Truth isn't a bad film in any way, it just has absolutely nothing out of the ordinary to mention. It's just over an hour and a half long. If you decide to invest that much time in it, you probably won't think you've totally wasted your time. Alternatively, you could always look up the trailer online and watch the same film in a fraction of the time.

Very well put together. It kept us at edge from beginning to end.Very well acted. Andy Garcia's face displayed pain, dilemma and at the same time internal strength. Forest Whitaker reminded me of Nelson Mandela, caring about the people rather than himself. Eva Longoria played her limited role very well. Deborah Kara Unger was good but could have shown more emotion, such as anger, passion.Premise of the movie is possible, thus making the movie realistic. It also confirmed how right the cause was that natural resources, like water, belong to the people, not to private industries and government.The end of the movie showed that there is good in most of us.Should have more movies like this. Very worth seeing!

The casting of the movie is incredible. Which is always the case when a message is being delivered. It's not too much on the nose here or at least it is incorporated into the story quite good. The actors you know do what they can. Eva Longoria might have the least to do (especially considering her name/weight). It's nice seeing some old familiar faces in a movie, where they try to build character.There is quite a bit of cliché in this, but you wouldn't/couldn't expect otherwise. Kevin Durand has a great little role in it and he makes his decision, no matter how small or big they are, actually work. Apart from that it's mostly the Andy Garcia show, with some added drama by Kara Unger and Forrest Whitacker. A nice little drama, with a lot of action in it.

Whatever vices or virtues this movie has, it is a paean of really vicious hate propaganda against free market economics. The corporation in the story is blamed for an atrocious massacre which is actually committed by the Ecuadorian army, for a typhus outbreak and for the usual, general perversity and greediness that corporations are characterized with in this type of hate propaganda. I can only imagine what an Ecuadorian would think of the way his country is portrayed in this garbage can full of lies disguised as fiction. I would avoid watching this kind of trash if I could see it coming. Why don't movie reviews routinely include a commentary on the propaganda content of movies like this?