It’s a striking, human portrait of men in trouble, looking for escape and possibly redemption.

Glenn Kenny

The New York Times

That Kasbe, who also shot and co-edited, so firmly embedded himself in this distant, hardscrabble world results in a wealth of candid, you-are-there moments that highlight the complex intersection between the fraught state of wildlife preservation and the desperate scramble for human survival.

Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

A solid, engrossing docudrama — staged and acted — not, as its director claims, a documentary. That still doesn’t rob the film of its simple power, the suspense of wondering just who will turn on whom, and if elephants will be killed in the bargain.

Roger Moore

Movie Nation