Britt Henslee

While the movie doesn’t necessarily take sides or align itself in any real type of way, I personally thought it was necessary to avoid the movie being overshadowed by our own real politics and make the message of the horrors of a civil war in our backyard easily understood as something we don’t want. Additionally, the origins of the civil war are not explained, rather we are thrust into the middle of it and following a set of journalists who, for the most part, remain neutral and capture the violence they encounter. The movie does not entirely expend itself on action scenes and moments as it implies in its trailers, but also features a rounded group of characters who you learn and understand, and who grow and change throughout the movie as well, something the action genre is, at times, incapable of accomplishing. Though the movie has been divisive, I thoroughly enjoyed it and thought it was thought-provoking and harrowing when coupled with the horrors currently ensuing in other parts of the world.