It is an overblown, histrionic, cluttered and a nowhere near well enough developed mess, the erstwhile humanitarian a one-note caricature I knew little more about at the end than I did at the beginning.

Gerard Butler is involving, even charismatic, always plausible as a man of contained and then uncontained violence...

Despite the most worthy intentions, Childers cannot single-handedly save Sudan and Butler cannot save this movie.

There absolutely was a surface level enjoyment to this film, but it's ultimately just the tip of what appears to be a much more interesting iceberg.