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4 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijThe Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijWhat we are thus left with is a film that's made with an impressive level of craftsmanship but with exceptionally dubious politics, as if 21st-century moviemaking magic had been let loose on a terribly conservative and hopelessly blinkered 1980s relic of a script.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe action finale, the actual 15 Minutes of War, atones for many of the sins this solid B-picture tallies up until then.
- 50Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThis movie is a broadly sketched but illuminating depiction of what happens when powerful nations grow weary of sorting through the subtleties of geopolitics and start letting heavily armed secret agents handle diplomacy.
- 40Grivois’ purpose is not to force a conversation about France’s colonial past or a comparison between Africa then and now. As the body count increases in this tense but troublingly context-free drama, he mistakenly believes we’ll gladly put politics aside to revel in the French gift for the kill shot.