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Old 08-23-2009, 07:16 AM
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I had also read that the producer lived in Johannesburg, SA, so he had firsthand experience of the apartheid conditions there, hence the movie's premise.

If you didn't know this going into the theater, you may have been disappointed that this wasn't another "Transformers"...

...I did laugh once when the guy in the robotic unit grabs a pig a forcefully chunks it at one of the soldiers!
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