Even though humanity loves quoting “can’t judge a book by
its cover”, we sure do that very thing quite a bit. Then again, we often
present ourselves with opportunities to do so and none are more apparent in
that intent than movie trailers. Now, over the course of this year, we’ve seen
a wide spectrum of trailers from the good (10 Cloverfield Lane) to the bad
(Trolls) to the outright annoying (The Angry Birds Movie), and some of them
have even given a far weaker impression of the official product than is
actually necessary. Today’s film, on the other hand? You can almost smell the
cheese coming off of this thing, and considering this is meant to be a drama,
that can’t be a good thing. Every time it got to the line “I love my people, I
love this land… but I love my wife”, not matter how many times I’d heard it up
to that point, I had to put a lot of effort into not just laughing my arse off
in the cinema. It’s one of those “Nothing is more powerful than the human
spirit” kind of lines that is near-impossible to take seriously. So, with that
bit of unintentional comedy in mind, how is the film proper?
