Simply A Masterpiece

One of my all time favorites.

Excellent but underrated film

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Really terrible accents from the international actors - especially Bloom and Forest. A general misrepresentation of Cape Town life. I feel that almost every race was wrongly represented. The film was overly violent and inappropriatly sexual.I would not recommend this film to anyone - expecally if they are trying to catch a glimpse of South Africa. They paint South Africa as a nation of drug dealers and planners of violent crimes, which we certainly are not.

Excellent movie that mixes today's modern South Africa with the story of repression over black people through the apartheid and the way it has left scars in the collective memory.Orlando Bloom plays a excellent role that reminds his family's past and the loneliness of a kid involved in the struggle of liberty. Forest Whitaker plays all his talent as a cop carrying all the sadness of the apartheid, packed of emotion with the exact restraint that brings his character to perfection.This movie is one of the best I have seen in a while, photo, sound, details, all is perfectly balanced between action and emotion.Warmly recommended!

This is a bit peculiar for me, I thought overall the story is pretty good but it just lacks emotional punch for some reason.I'm not sure if it's the acting or what it is, Whitaker is pretty good I guess and although Bloom is not bad he's not that great either but I don't buy them as being friends in this.They also have another friend called Dan and he even more seems out of place and not like 'one of the guys' of which he is supposed to be.The characters I believe are supposed to be multi-layered but that doesn't really come across in the film, Whitaker's character is a slight exception. And some of the dialogue feels forced.Yeah I don't know what else to add in all honesty because it is sort of a mystery-crime-drama-thriller so it's hard to say anything without spoiling stuff so I'll just keep it short I guess.Based on a book and although I haven't read the book I think it's safe to assume that 'not as good as the book' rings true in this case.

In South Africa, Ali Sokhela (Forest Whitaker) is chief of the Serious and Violent Crime Unit in Cape Town. Detective Brian Epkeen (Orlando Bloom) is a drunken mess. His ex is with a rich guy and his son is looking for the child support. Detetive Dan Fletcher, Epkeen and Sokhela are investigating a dead young woman in the Botanical Gardens. She comes from a well-to-do white family. It leads them to a violent new gang with a new synthetic drug in a South Africa full of violence.A violent South Africa is an interesting new location for a movie. It's out of the ordinary Hollywood movie and it serves well for a tense crime drama. However it is odd to see two Hollywood A-listers to be the lead. It's not as bothersome as I expected. Bloom is almost unrecognizable at the beginning. Whitaker does his usual good work. I don't particularly like the ultimate villain. It should be more a simple drug crime thriller. Instead, the movie takes a turn halfway through. The Bond villains and the evil plan are too over the top. It also makes the violent backdrop to be a manufactured fake thing both cinematically and also created by the drug in the story.