@silverhawkins said:

Absolute balls. No clue how it has such a high rating.

Eye-rolling and cringe inducing melodrama. Nauseatingly saccharine, self-indulgent, badly edited and painfully ponderous (with a runtime that's an exercise in audience tolerance).

Among its other crimes, it somehow depicts the Spanish as the victims of their own colonial era in Guinea. Quite the feat. This was near torture to watch from start to finish, I'd have stopped if I was watching it alone.

Maybe we didn't see the same movie because it's one of VERY few movies I rated a 10/10. Excellent all the way around.