a review of 达尔富尔
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.