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There’s a scene early on in Marc Forster’s drama that unfolds in a biker bar in Pennsylvania. It’s not late yet already it’s rammed with sweaty racists soaking their faces then lurching to the loo to shoot up and talk trash and vomit over their leathers. It’s a gamey sight Chaussures Adidas Superstar II Noir Or V24625 Pas Cher , full of picturesque detail, and then the camera pans around to show a lady biker 鈥?knocking on in years, a little erratic with her slap 鈥?who is combing her hair with a fork; a normal, metal fork. It’s at this moment the scene tips from atmospheric into parodic. The film overall kicks a little harder, holds out a little longer, but essentially what we have here is ham: honey-cured, slightly glazed, and tasty enough for a while, at least.


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Starring Gerard Butler 鈥?who also, significantly, executive produces 鈥?it’s the real-life tale of Sam Childers, a burly ex-con builder who finds Jesus after a close encounter with a stabbed alcoholic and a sudden hurricane (the plot is nothing if not eventful). Childers then travels to Sudan where he builds an orphanage for the victims of the long-running civil war. The twist is that he isn’t your average teary missionary, he’s a lock-and-load crusader, blasting baddies into the sky with one hand (the locals brand him an African Rambo), escorting scores of cute kids to safety with the other.


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No wonder Butler fancied taking this on: it’s a terrific fit for his own brand of soulful aggression 鈥?half saint, half psychopath. Forster makes no bones about how dubious a character Childers was before his spiritual rehabilitation 鈥?“You’re just a little fucking junkie stripper,” are his fond words to wife Michelle Monaghan on release from the clink. There’s ample time devoted to Childers’ spiritual grappling 鈥?with his own faith, with the hypocrisy of the congregation who come to the church he erected back in the US (DIY enthusiasts are well-catered for here), but prefer to splurge on parties rather than donate to his appeal.


Such focus means other actors barely get a look in: Monaghan is nice enough as his wife; Michael Shannon amps up his bug-eyed doom-faced act as our hero’s vulnerable best friend. It also means that the narrative is a little patchy, a prisoner to a personal story rather than an especially cohesive one: there are plot holes so wide and sudden the film is hobbled for a good few minutes following them. At least two gun battles abruptly end at what looked like a critical moment. At other times, you’re wrong-footed more pleasantly: an encounter with a fragrant doctor doesn’t resolve into cliche, and the ending is open-ended, mature.


What it lacks is balance: we never discover what Childers’ enemies are fighting for, or much about the background of the conflict. Some gloss would hardly have endangered ones’s allegiance 鈥?we’re endlessly shown the results of horrific acts of rape, torture and slaughter 鈥?but it would have helped bring nuance to a film that sorely needs it.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela.

Following are notable quotations by former South African President Nelson Mandela.


"For my own part I have made my choice. I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days." - ANC press statement, June 26, 1961


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"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.


"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.


"It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to see realized. But, my lord, if needs be it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." - speech at treason trial, April 20, 1964


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"I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands." - on release from prison, February 11, 1990


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"It will forever remain an indelible blight on human history that the apartheid crime ever occurred. Future generations will surely ask: What error was made that this system established itself in the wake of the adoption of a universal declaration of human rights?


"It will forever remain an accusation and a challenge to all men and women of conscience that it took as long as it has before all of us stood up to say 'enough is enough'." - to U.N. Special Committee against Apartheid, June 22, 1990


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"The time for the healing of the wounds has come ... the moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us." - on inauguration as President of South Africa, May 10, 1994


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"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." - from his 1994 autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom"


"It would be a cruel irony of history if Africa's actions to regenerate the continent were to unleash a new scramble for Africa which, like that of the nineteenth century, plundered the continent's wealth and left it once more the poorer." - to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, July 11, 1997


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