[SShaw]

Can the rehabilitation of LOTR actors continue with my last film of the weekend ?

Fortunately this is not an unneeded remake of the 1964 classic Zulu, but a rather pedestrian South African set police thriller starring Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom. Bloom plays a hardbitten washed up cop and while this is perhaps the best acting of his career he brings nothing new to the craft.

The script suffers a little from too many ideas and too much backstory and as a consequence never manages to build the tension needed to succeed. A shame as there is probably a good film somewhere in the material. Instead we are left with this distinctly average effort.