Picking Nits
Nitpicks cover Danny’s perfect facial hair, cross-border arrest geography, Solomon risking death at the camp, Maddie’s photo distraction, Benjamin’s death, mountain reception, and constant Guinness drinking.
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- Danny’s facial hair remains too precisely groomed after many days on the road.
- An arrest by Liberian border guards should place Danny in Liberia rather than the Sierra Leone prison where he meets Solomon.
- Hiding diamonds inside goat skin is praised as a useful smuggling detail.
- Solomon’s public breakdown after seeing Dia through the camp fence seems likely to get him shot.
- Maddie stopping armed soldiers by taking their pictures feels like a television-movie device.
- Benjamin’s death is treated as an avoidable action detour that could be cut.
- The final cell call remains implausibly clear.
- Repeated bottled Guinness orders in tropical heat are questioned as possible product placement.