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Jul 30, 2013akirakato rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
This is a 2005 political thriller directed by Sydney Pollack. The story is quite complicated, loosely based on Robert Mugabe---President of Zimbabwe. In real life, President Mugabe had ruled Zimbabwe for 25 years when the film was released. Mugabe was once respected as a freedom-fighter, but later became as corrupt and tyrannical and was responsible for ethnic cleansing and other atrocities in the country. In the film, Mugabe appears as Edmond Zuwabie---President of a fictional Republic of Matobo. Although there are strong parallels between the film and the reality, the storyline is so much contrived and complicated that the film seems to have ended up as an unbelievable thriller.