Disturbing movie, ordinary acting. Idris Elba not so great
I watched in on purpose, reading about Idris Elba as the top forgotten black Oscar-worth performance. Sorry, guys, that's a huge hype! I like Idris from other movies, but here he had such an ordinary secondary role and display, I've been shockingly dissapointed.
First conclusion: people don't actually know what makes a movie great. Put a machine gun in the hands of a 10 years old kid, make him shoot a woman being raped and he's a candidate for Academy Awards! Really?!!
That's about Africa, guys, there are horrors there nobody wants to know about, hundreds of people killed on a day by Boko Haram or armies of children. When a white guy, born in US, from Japanese parents, writes an directs such a movie, let's calm down with the illusion some black actors made the movie worth. I've seen Elba in other movies where he's been better.
As so many people say, this year Oscars seem deserved by rather white actors. Don't be bad losers and learn to respect talent. People vote for talent, not color of the skin.