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Set amidst a political/social revolution, the movie tells the story of a physician/activist and a relief aid doctor whose love is tested not only by the grim situation they find themselves in, but also by a difference of opinion on how to solve the conflict.
Although it invests too much time on a corny romance, the film delivers when portraying the brutality of the genocides happening in South Sudan and in Liberia. [Full review in Portuguese.]
By the time [Wren] wraps things up with a sententious speech about how dreams are more important than oxygen, both have been completely sucked out of the theater.
Tainted by some of the worst dialogue ever written, it's impossible to connect to the characters on screen who, despite their best efforts and good looks, can't, for the life of them, find a way to lift the story out of the gutter.
Its last scene sums up the pseudo-charitable intentions that the film lodges while it falls in the same hypocrisy that it intends to denounce. [Full review in Spanish]
Penn, who has become well-known for doing what he can to try and ease the agony of global crisis spots (like Haiti), would do well not to mistake his own genuine compassion for an artistic impulse.
A film systematically sabotaged by its fatuous sense of the intensity where the tears abound and the ideological commitment ends up segregating untold kitsch modalities. [Full review in Spanish]