It's never a really good movie, but it becomes passable if you can wait out the saccharine prelude where everyone is cast as either too good to be true or evil to the core. Your fast forward is your friend on this one.
This is another movie that comes in a UN wrapper with a save the world theme, but after the first third, some more realistic elements enter the plot and there are even some twists to keep us guessing. The cabinet meeting at which the entire defense enhancement budget is sacked to provide water "for the people" comes across as comical in its projected naiveté and should be viewed for the entertainment value. The visit to the village to allegedly illustrate the water problem is sanitized as is most of the movie -- nobody sweats much, gets very dirty, or appears to be in any particular distress. The "workers" look like they just stepped out of the musical next door and put on clean work clothes. Oh, and perfect teeth all the way around. It therefore feels incredibly sanitized, like the Mary Poppins view of Dickens' London except that this isn't supposed to be that kind of movie. I hope.
Billed in some venues as the "James Bond of Africa", Michael Powers is hardly that. Of course you can no doubt figure that out yourself -- a journalist hardly gives you the same playground as a top secret agent. The car chase scene is more amusing than thrilling. The ending is good enough though, and I won't ruin it. However this is followed by a feel good UN clip about water that you can use the fast forward to escape from.
Suffice it to say that once the bad guys are dead the movie is as well.
Unfortunately the credits appear to be misaligned or incorrect. I could not figure out who the beautiful actress is that plays Sabina but I'd like to see more of her in another movie.
This is another movie that comes in a UN wrapper with a save the world theme, but after the first third, some more realistic elements enter the plot and there are even some twists to keep us guessing. The cabinet meeting at which the entire defense enhancement budget is sacked to provide water "for the people" comes across as comical in its projected naiveté and should be viewed for the entertainment value. The visit to the village to allegedly illustrate the water problem is sanitized as is most of the movie -- nobody sweats much, gets very dirty, or appears to be in any particular distress. The "workers" look like they just stepped out of the musical next door and put on clean work clothes. Oh, and perfect teeth all the way around. It therefore feels incredibly sanitized, like the Mary Poppins view of Dickens' London except that this isn't supposed to be that kind of movie. I hope.
Billed in some venues as the "James Bond of Africa", Michael Powers is hardly that. Of course you can no doubt figure that out yourself -- a journalist hardly gives you the same playground as a top secret agent. The car chase scene is more amusing than thrilling. The ending is good enough though, and I won't ruin it. However this is followed by a feel good UN clip about water that you can use the fast forward to escape from.
Suffice it to say that once the bad guys are dead the movie is as well.
Unfortunately the credits appear to be misaligned or incorrect. I could not figure out who the beautiful actress is that plays Sabina but I'd like to see more of her in another movie.