 Its moral center is painfully clear, but so is its humanity".However, Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter gave a 60 and announced that "As drama the film mostly serves to illustrate the two sides of this crucial social debate in Africa".Phil Hall of Film Threat gave only 40/100 and found the movie "Achieves the impossible in taking a genuine socio-political tragedy and turning it into an anvil drama which will fray the patience of the most sympathetic audiences".