Attack on Darfur (2009)

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

I was quite surprised by what I saw when watching this film. It turns out to be pretty straightforward in educating the public of the possibilities of what is happening in the African area between the Sudanese and militia Janjaweed. The film opens with reporters going on an excursion with the assistance of the nation of Africa's captain as both a guide and chaperone. They run into a small village on their way to a place pretty far off and distant in the desert. The two easily identifiable stars in this film are Billy Zane and Edward furlong. The two heros are virtual unknowns. It turns out that the janja weed militiamen raid these villages for sex and acknowledgement of existence...they want to be feared and revered as very very important and are told to the viewer that they are a threat to any public villager closeby the Sudan country. For some reason it seems to explain that the main two differences between people of that region are African and Arab. so the heightened climax of the film happens after the Janjaweed encounter the Americans and the African captain at this small village in Darfur...not too far away from Sudan.The Janjaweed then wreak havoc and the Americans are frightened away Until two of the crewmembers decide that there will be unnecessary bloodshed and that they feel that they could at least assist in battle to protect some of the innocent lives that will be killed by the Janjaweed raiders. Its a very violent film.

This is one of those rare films where you are one with the film and it emotionally wipes you out. If you're not a fan of his, my advice to you is forget that Uwe Boll made the film but remember that he made it when you're finished watching it: it seems like he actually can make good films.Filmed in South Africa, DARFUR (aka ATTACK ON DARFUR) deals with a group of journalists ~ among them David O'Hara, Billy Zane and Kristanna Loken ~ who travel to a Darfuri village in the Sudan. The people there live in fear of the marauding Janjaweed militia who attack the villages, killing, raping and pillaging and the journalists are there to expose the horrors of the Janjaweed. While the journalists are there, the Janjaweed arrive and the journalists are forced to flee, leaving the villagers at the mercy of the looters. While on the run, the journalists are faced with either getting back home or going back and making a stand............I saw this film at its' premiere in Cape Town on March 18th 2010 and was shocked, horrified and deeply disturbed by it ~ the violence is unrelenting, the you-are-there camera-work puts you in the centre of the action, Jessica de Rooij's music prepares you for something bad to happen (when it does, you are totally unprepared) and the acting is topnotch.Several people walked out of the screening as they couldn't take the violence and the horrific images: I burst into tears at the end where, in the midst of so much violence, death and destruction, a tiny, heart-rending sound of life is heard and I couldn't sleep that night, nor could I eat. The producer Chris Roland addressed us that night, apologizing to us if we came there to be entertained as "Uwe and myself didn't set out to entertain anyone".Brilliant is too weak a term for how great this film is.

Unwatchable. This movie was filmed using overblown, overdone "subjective camera" technique. The camera swoons from ground to sky, constantly jiggling and wobbling.All in all, this movie is very tedious to watch. Typically, an "over anxious" camera is used throughout throughout a movie, constantly, in every scene, the purpose is to mask bad sets and bad acting. That holds true here. This entire film could have been made in a single field. Low budget and amateurish are words and phrases that do not reach down far enough to accurately convey this movie.Such a shame that important subject matter would be given such shabby treatment.

An excellent premise, with some decent actors so really this should have been far, far better. It has some good moments, and is basically a decent storyline looking at the horror of what went on in Darfur. Unfortunately Uwe Boll's continuing use of the very, very shaky hand held cam really, really spoils this film. Rage was pretty decent, the type of film where the shaky cam actually works quite well but in this it just completely distracts from what is going on. I ended up paying much less attention to what was going on because the shaky cam was just far too distracting and far too annoying. For some reason Uwe also manages to take some decent actors and extract a mediocre performance from them.At least he is nowhere near as bad a director as Rob Zombie.Rent this, but don't buy it as the flaws far outweighs the good points.