Beasts of No Nation review

A young African boy is forced to become a child soldier in order to survive.

Based on the novel by Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation is a frequently harrowing account of civil war and violent enslavement from the perspective of a child in modern Africa.

From early scenes in the bosom of his family, we get to see Agu (Abraham Attah) transition from a normal young boy to something else entirely – a soldier and a thug, a killer and a victim of terrible trauma.