Synopsis
American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
Attack on Darfur
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Дарфур: Хроники объявленной смерти, Janjaweed
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Theatrical
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USA
29 Apr 2010
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Germany18
08 Mar 2011
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Brazil
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Brazil
08 Mar 2011
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Germany
29 Apr 2010
- Theatrical18
USA
06 Nov 2009
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It's weird how Uwe Boll's filmography contains everything from a trilogy that glorifies mass shootings to something like this with contradictory humanitarian intentions. The guy might have the most well-documented case of bipolar disorder in history. His Attack on Darfur covers the genocides being carried out across the Sudan by the Arab militia group known as the Janjaweed. The idea being to raise awareness for these atrocities.
Of course Boll being the filmmaker he is, all we get is a terrible, tasteless movie where we witness explicit acts of brutality and savagery before it devolves into a generic wish-fulfillment action flick. I've seen plenty of cinema that deals in graphic portrayals of horrific content. What makes Boll's approach so particularly repulsive is that he displays the acts without any discernable sense of empathy for the victims, which makes things feel exploitative in the worst way possible. It's a problem I had with another of his works called Stoic.
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So, Uwe Boll does a movie about genocide in Africa and it seems like he tried to deliver a good movie here.
But in my eyes, he failed. Darfur wants to show us brutal moments that more or less happen in the world today, but he can't build a story or characters around the brutal scenes. So while the message he wants to send us is a serious one and gets across, everything else in it is lame and boring.
There are zero characters in it. And when I say zero, I mean zero. The people in this are just there. The movie feels like a documentary, but it isn't sold as a documentary, so I want these journalists to… -
Despite Uwe Boll's reputation as a film director this isn't a terrible film. I give Boll props for actually caring about this situation and for making a film that unlike Bloodrayne or Blubberella, isn't geared towards commerce (Although what kind of audience Boll thought Blubberella was geared towards is anyone's guess; people with severed brain stems?).
Its heavy handed in delivering its message (Constant conversations about "the situation here..." and the atrocities being committed) not to mention Boll's shaky cam and editing are often indulgent (The 5 minute long intro to Darfur village life makes its point after the 1st minute), and yes the violence is confronting (babies being jammed on spikes for example) but it never feels exploitative, it…
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Der einzige Uwe Boll-Film, der mal sowas wie Atmosphäre, Spannung und (bewusstes) Unwohlsein aufbaut. Die Kameraführung ist aber wieder direkt aus der Hölle und ab dem Rache-Motiv wird es leider arg unglaubwürdig und - wie immer bei Boll - zu einem Abfeiern der Selbstjustiz.
Man merkt Boll an, dass ihm dieses Thema - anders als bei seinen Videospiel-Verfilmungen - wichtig war. Seine Art der Aufarbeitung, die gnadenlos inszeniert wird und komplett in die Magengrube geht. Stellt sich nur die Frage, ob so unmenschliche Gräueltaten unbedingt so explizit inszeniert werden müssen, statt sie nur im Kopf der Zuschauenden stattfinden zu lassen. Genug Filme zeigen schließlich, dass das reicht.
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Despite the fact that I’ve rated every single movie of his half a star, I don’t do this to Uwe out of spite.
I do it because he doesn’t recognise that there is a line that every filmmaker should respect: the line of moral decency.
It’s fine to care about an issue in the world, it’s not fine to just show rape (men, minors, women, if Uwe can film it, they do it), a baby being impaled on a spike and people constantly being shot, stabbed or burned without informing, exploring or giving any indication of what’s going on to the audience.
I’m just tired. And this movie isn’t worth watching. And Uwe needs to learn this lesson if he’s serious about making the comeback he so desperately wants.
That being said, I’m off to France so, I won’t be able to watch an Uwe Boll film for a while (probably for the best) so, fuck youse all!
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Uwe Boll has made a few "cause" movies now, and it's strange because he doesn't seem to have a whole lot of emotional maturity as a filmmaker. Nevertheless, Attack on Darfur is certainly one of his more jolting efforts, and the graphic violence of the second half in particular is difficult to shake. Still, there's not much of a plot beyond "here are some disgusting events, be disgusted at them", and the characters are barely developed at all.
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Forget the (mostly true) assumptions of how bad Uwe Boll is.
Forget the stupidly crass remarks on here and other places.The fact is if an American or British film maker/company had the balls to make this film then smug remarks about this film and STV fate would more than likely never occur.
Because, despite his many faults, Boll is passionate and uncompromising on certain events...certain rights and wrongs. And so is this film.The day Hollywood makes a movie about the mass rape/torture and mutilation of women in Iraq, or the genocide against the one of the World's oldest (there long before Islam) Christian sect in Iraq, or the mass murder of Homosexuals in Iraq... instead of hypocritical, enemy…
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Attack on Darfur
Sicherlich einer der besten Uwe Boll Filme auf allen ebenen, leider trifft der Film aber nicht meinen persönlichen Geschmack. Das Setting und die Thematik interessiert mich leider nicht so. Trotzdem grosses Lob an Dr. Boll, denn inszenatorisch ist der Film wirklich gut, so wie das Schauspiel und die Dramatik. Er hat sich hier auch ein sehr wichtiges Thema für diesen Film ausgesucht, das er hier super aufarbeitet.
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American journalists in Sudan have the daunting decision to stay and help a village that is currently being attacked by insurgents to go back home and report the atrocities they’ve witnessed or stay and try to help. Directed by Uwe Boll, this is probably one of his more serious efforts. Kristanna Loken, Billy Zane and Edward Furlong are featured.
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i would say this at least has some attempts at realism with the casting of actual sudanese refugees to play the parts of the people in Darfur. i was reading as i watched and apparently they didn’t have a script so the scenes where they’re interviewing people it’s basically just an actual interview with these folks about their experiences, and that’s really interesting. once it gets into the action stuff in the back half it’s pretty upsetting and dour. i think this clearly has a bit more thoughtfulness from Uwe Boll even if it doesn’t totally connect across the entire runtime. certainly on the heels of Postal and Blubberella this is leaps and bounds above those in terms of filmmaking.
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