A Dark Truth - Or you could just watch the trailer...

I watched the trailer for this and thought `Hey, that looks like a reasonable film.' It's about an ex CIA agent who's hired to look into an illegal massacre in a South American country, which may or may not have been carried out on the orders of a large conglomerate. It has Andy Garcia and Forest Whitaker in it (both well capable of putting in good performances), so it seemed to have a lot going for it.

However, it was one of the most run-of-the-mill films I've ever watched. Not only did the trailer address every plot point along the way, but there was nothing vaguely different enough about it to make it stand out.

It has a message - one that smacks you in the face as if it was Avatar promoting `save the trees' - only this time it's about how big businesses rampage all over the world, not caring who they trample on along the way.

A Dark Truth isn't a bad film in any way, it just has absolutely nothing out of the ordinary to mention. It's just over an hour and a half long. If you decide to invest that much time in it, you probably won't think you've totally wasted your time. Alternatively, you could always look up the trailer online and watch the same film in a fraction of the time.

6/10 May just keep you awake if Freddy Krueger was haunting your nights