An adaptation of a novel by a French writer, Zulu sees two detectives Ali Sokhela and Brian Epkeen investigate the murder and rape of a white. They soon find out that the killings are related to a new drug that causes behavioural changes and it seems that the use of the drug has gone out of control leading to gang warfare. A shady security firm is placing obstacles on the progress of the investigation.
This is a visceral and hard hitting film set in Cape Town. During the Apartheid era filming in South Africa was not allowed although that did not stop some stars from committing pro celebrity sanctions busting. Since the ending of apartheid very few films have been made actually set in South Africa.
This feels like Cape Town, the opening scenes at Kirstenbosch gardens on the foot of the Table mountain. A slimmed down Forest Whitaker plays Ali a person haunted by events in his past and working in a multiracial police force even though his bosses were the racists under the old regime.
Orlando Bloom plays Brian, someone who has relationship issues and money issues.
Bloom and Whitaker make a good pairing, the screenplay tries to imbue the complexities of the novel to the characters but it gets silly at the latter part of the film where the film resembles more like a wild west shootout and neither of our police officers have heard the concept of calling for back up as they go guns blazing on their own or in the finale with a pump action shotgun against a private army.
This is a visceral and hard hitting film set in Cape Town. During the Apartheid era filming in South Africa was not allowed although that did not stop some stars from committing pro celebrity sanctions busting. Since the ending of apartheid very few films have been made actually set in South Africa.
This feels like Cape Town, the opening scenes at Kirstenbosch gardens on the foot of the Table mountain. A slimmed down Forest Whitaker plays Ali a person haunted by events in his past and working in a multiracial police force even though his bosses were the racists under the old regime.
Orlando Bloom plays Brian, someone who has relationship issues and money issues.
Bloom and Whitaker make a good pairing, the screenplay tries to imbue the complexities of the novel to the characters but it gets silly at the latter part of the film where the film resembles more like a wild west shootout and neither of our police officers have heard the concept of calling for back up as they go guns blazing on their own or in the finale with a pump action shotgun against a private army.