Endgame

William Hurt is good as usual.  It is strange that he is in some seriously obscure films for the last film I remember him is that was pretty mainstream was Broadcast News n 1987.  I hope it is his choice as he is a good actor though his Afrikaner accent is, well, it is about as good as my Irish/Scottish accent when I am sober.  Good acting all the way around including Jonny Lee Miller (Hackers and Trainspotting) who brings to light a man none of us might never have known about: Michael Young.  The story is based on fact and (like Brotherhood of War) is a good film to see just to be sure you are historically well rounded as it covers the beginning of the end of Apartheid in South Africa.

William Hurt plays Willie Esterhuyse (William Hurt) and Chiwetel Ejiofor plays African National Congress President Thabo Mbeki.  It is Jonny Lee Miller's character who brings the men togehter in a mansion in England where they are free from what they are surrounded by in their homeland to focus on what has to be done.  The acting is really good, the scirpt is great, and the directing and cinematography are good in an interesting way as we move between a full on steady camera and the occasional video type shot you see when watching an episode of COPS. 

A word of warning, the movie can be slow, so this is not really a movie to watch when you need simple eye candy and are not really interested in being mentally engaged, but after watching it, you do come away a lot smarter and aware.  If you want to continue along this line, you can watch Invictus right after.  It is historically the next step, you get more entertainment as the rugby will provide more action, and Matt Damon's Afrikaner will make William Hurt's sound more natural.