Review of Timbuktu (2014) by Shawn R — 04 Jan 2016
Film plays like a piece of ISIS propaganda. It attempts to show on one side their harsh law while at the same time trying to show justification for their actions whilst giving them a conscience, rather than show them to be the inhumane monsters that most of even the Islamic world knows them to be.
One of the other problems with this is the lack of a moral center of the main characters who are supposed to be in opposition to ISIS. The main character thinks it's perfectly reasonable to kill a man as revenge for killing his cow without even a second thought and receives no objection from his wife who then commits suicide against ISIS in revenge, leaving their daughter an orphan.
If you like films with morally degenerate, unlikable characters then this is the film for you.
This review of Timbuktu (2014) was written by Shawn R on 04 Jan 2016.
Timbuktu has generally received very positive reviews.
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