paul connelly

Its an awful movie, a muddle thats full of clichés and not very good acting. It will only please a few people who follow the narrative of the film in their daily lives through religious adherence. Full of historically inaccuracies (I mean Abu Bakr depicted as the bad guy, when he was historically and generally regarded in Islam to be one of Mohammed's closest advisors and confidante is one of the more egregious claims), if it had been a well made and well acted movie I would have said it's worth watching but it reeks of a movie made to cash in on the hysteria these kinds of movies create amongst the religiously inclined. Its suggestion that the early proponents of Islam and the Islamic State share many similarities is slightly on the dubious side but what I found most peculiar is the overt suggestion that despite all the main characters hailing from the same tribe, the lighter skinned characters are the good guys and everyone who is black is a bad guy. That word that begins with R and ends with ism anyone?