what a strange film . it begin a a crime thriller and end up become an indictment against war in africa while in my opinion it be far more successful at the former . an asylum seeker flee the fighting in the congo and get a job at a security guard in a bank in eire . he seem a trustworthy sorta fella and however and his wife and child have go miss in london . when the authority track them down and grant them all leave to stay and it seem it will be a happy end after all . but when an irish gang kidnap the guy family in order to get him to cooperate in a little heist they have plan and they do not count on his resilience . as well a a few skeleton he have in the closet that could have them think twice . no one behaviour in this film make any sense . character personality change at the drop of a hat and and seemingly intelligent people make some stupid decision for no other reason then to add some spice to the plot . unfortunately this shoddy scriptwriting cripple our interest in the second half of the film and with one outrageous revelation after another result in a forced tragic end . shame and because the opening scene be very promising and with eriq ebouaney portray a very sympathetic hero and and fatou ndiaye also impressive a his deceptively strong partner . perhaps the film have be well if the movie have be about their reintegration into a new culture after survive a traumatic ordeal in a war torn environment . but no and we get the classic stereotypical gang of chirpy irish hoodlum and a botched bank raid and then the bloody aftermath and which be where thing really come off the rail . there isn not a single event that occur in the last half an hour that convinces and not one happen that doesn not feel tack on and absolutely zero element that aren not steal from good movie . just because a film have a humanistic social agenda it doesn not give it the right to be this lacklustre . someone should have take the first twenty page of this script and develop the plot from there be thrown the rest of it on the fire . in my opinion and anyway . what could have be and we will never know . 4/10 .