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Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Ivan Goldschmidt's Academy Award-nominated "Na Wewe" addresses the absurdity of conflicts about ethnicity. When Hutu rebels stop a minivan and try to separate the Hutus from the Tutsis, it proves hard to determine who's who since the people won't cooperate. This is an obvious reference to the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, although the setting isn't mentioned (I read that it takes place in Burundi). According to Paul Rusesabagina - best known for opening his hotel as a refuge for people fleeing the genocide - it was the Belgians who started labeling people Hutu and Tutsi. This just emphasizes the lack of logic behind ethnic conflicts.Good one. The title means "you too", which could also be U2.

It's the best of the nominated shorts, and the only of them that actually does something slightly innovative with its premise. A Rwandan caravan of international travelers is stopped by Hutu militants who threaten to kill anyone they suspect of being Tutsi. The militants aren't very good at sniffing out Tutsi, and consider nearly everyone as one of their own. The few who would be shot manage to escape by convincing their attackers that a Bono song is pro-Hulu. The farce works, albeit being completely unexpected, and disrupting the narrative.Recommended

This Belgian film talks about a subject that is very much talked about nowadays in Belgium: national identity. The country that holds the record for time taken to form a new democratic government after an election, held until then by Iraq, offered us a very good insight on the essence of national identities. The way the director Ivan Goldsmidt achieved this was by setting his film at the civil war in Burundi and the genocidal conflict between Hutus and Tutsis. A van full of people is stopped by a few gun- wielding rebels, who demand to know everybody's origins. Of course this proves to be extremely complicated, which is why this movie turns into a comedy quite soon, despite the wielding guns. The tension of this situation is effectively used to make a point about the funny irrationality of the idea of national identity. "Na wewe" means "you too" in Kurundi, because this is definitely not a topic concerning only Hutus and Tutsis.

The film got me going. The cinematography was crisp, and I was really on the edge of my seat, anxiously awaiting the fate of the poor boy with the walk man. Unfortunately, said walk man was critical flaw of this film. Before viewing the climax, I had intended to rate this film at least a 9 on IMDb, but, unfortunately, that walk man and its involvement in the narrative ruined it for me ten fold. I mean, it felt like a commercial for U2! And the sight of those battle hardened soldiers dancing and smiling to music was quite difficult to bear. Up until that point I was ready to give this film a 9 on IMDb, but because of that cheese infested anti climactic ending the film received a 6.