Director Darrell James Roodt has made some good films about South Africa, but his certainly isn't one of them. If we say that Elizabeth Hurley's South African accent is about the best thing in the movie, you'll get the drift. US rap star Ice Cube stars in this story of fraternal revenge as the black American on a flying visit to the Cape for his father's funeral. But his younger brother has disappeared, up to his neck in debt to a Jo'burg kingpin of crime (Ving Rhames). 'Tis whole trip is just stressin' me the f*** out,' mutters Cube, before deciding on putting the country to rights. 'Drugs had taken over from Apartheid,' he complains in voice-over narration. 'And it was up to me to stop it.' And so he does, adopting a more relaxed attitude to local customs at the same time. 'When the time came to sacrifice the goat', he asserts, 'I didn't hesitate! ' Performances are bad, dialogue worse, pacing non-existent. Return to sender.

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