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ridiculous rating

Best movie ever!

Absolutely brilliant

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

A team of Western reporters travel to the village of Nabagaia in the Sudanese region of Darfur, where they aim to collect evidence of ethnic cleansing by the Arab militia, the Janjaweed. On their return journey, they witness the Janjaweed heading for the village and decide to turn back, hoping that their presence will prevent any bloodshed. It doesn't.When a controversial, exploitative director such as Uwe Boll turns around and makes a movie about such a serious humanitarian issue as the genocide in Sudan, I do have to question his motives: Amnesty International might be convinced that Boll's intentions are noble, even supporting Darfur with special screenings, but with graphic scenes of baby-skewering, child shooting, machete slaughter, gang rape, and mass immolation, this looks like business as usual to me…Whether or not this is a case of exploitation, or a genuine attempt at raising awareness, it's hard to be absolutely certain; either way, Boll has made one hell of a powerful movie that is difficult to forget, his uncompromising depiction of Darfur's harrowing subject matter making this gut-wrenching viewing even for those accustomed to extreme movie violence. This is real horror—the kind that makes rampaging zombies and masked maniacs hacking up teenagers look like child's play—and for that, Uwe has my respect.7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.

He is such a crappy director and movie maker. Until now. Not Oscar worthy, but definitely very, very powerful. I'm a 45 year old male having to hold it in 10 minute mark on. Wife probably cried through most of it. I know she turned away a few times. The movie is very brutal, cold, and unforgiving. Watching children die ( horribly ) is never easy. It's not so much the actors, they did their job working with the script they had. What made the movie great was the subject matter. It's a shame nothing was done to stop the slaughter of all those people. Untold thousands dying because of race or religion. When will people learn.

'Attack on Darfur' marks one of Uwe Boll's first foray outside of the 'video-game to film' genre, a category of films familiar to us not for its tendency to be award winning, cutting edge, artistic, or intellectually sophisticated productions, but more because they tend to involve bad acting, gratuitous violence, nonsensical character motivations and plot-lines, low production value, and generally anything you can think of when you think of trashy flicks intended to turn the audience's brains off for a couple of hours.In an attempt to gain recognition as s 'serious' film director and producer, Boll decides to tackle more 'serious' topics for his films--by making a video-game caricature of the civil war in Sudan: poor and oppressed African villagers in Darfur are slaughtered by maniacally evil Arab oppressors, while kindhearted white 'Westerners' helplessly look on, wondering why there is no international effort to 'get involved' and halt the atrocities (Like video game protagonists, the American journalists in the film decide to pick up guns and conduct their own little covert operation).This is, of course, not what is actually happening in Sudan since the onset of the civil strife--it's a caricature, that reduces the complexity of the genocide to a simplistic one-sided affair that rather conveniently effaces much of its reality, in which numerous oil based economies from the US to China were in fact already implicated in generating the violent conflicts unfolding in Sudan, thus making it possible to fabricate a myth of 'international (military) intervention' as one of 'heroic rescue.' Apparently, Boll doesn't know that the word 'Arab' in Sudan is used in a different context than how it is widely (mis)used in Europe and North America, so he recruits a number of actors who look like they are of Middle-east descent to play the Sudanese Arab militia. The result is a poorly researched, poorly conceived, 'political-drama wannabe' that shares the same signatures as Hollywood action flicks: bad guys have bad aim, guns never need reloading, and every random person in the film has received small-arms training and can effectively use any firearm that is handed to them. The shaky cam technique, already over-exploited as a cheap method for conveying a sense of 'amateur realism' and 'immersion', makes an appearance here in a vain effort by Boll to induce motion sickness that he hopes will be confused by the audience as revulsion over the subject matter and the film's portrayal of violence. What it ends up producing, however, is depression.What is depressing is not only the level of ignorance exhibited by the film and its director, but the number of reviewers who seem to think that this garbage delivers an accurate portrayal of the Sudanese civil war accompanied by a well-meaning political message. Meanwhile, Boll fires off angry letters to the press that his film is not being endorsed by supposedly progressive Hollywood celebrities, with all the righteous indignity of a crusading philanthropist that in fact turns out to be baseless.I use to think that Boll was some sort of misunderstood talent that had a knack for subtle parodies and self-depreciation. I realize now that I was wrong.

I'm always the last to get around to seeing many movies due to my schedule, etc. This movie was incredibly shocking and I must admit I had no clue as to what the movie might entail. I found myself covering my eyes at certain points, yelling at other times and wanting to grab a weapon and fight for justice the rest of the time! I was sickened by the Muslim rebels and their disgusting lack of humanity or compassion. Then when they revealed their racist attitudes I couldn't believe what they were saying! I kept hearing a voice inside my head saying, "Is this for real? Did this really happen? Is this still happening? Oh my God! You have to do something". (Naturally that voice was my conscience slapping me around for which I am eternally grateful). I recommend this movie to anyone wanting to be forced to deal with the reality of people outside of the US or other countries where life is more free and holds value. This movie is going to stick in my head for a long time to come. I can't say that it has improved my liking for radical Islamists however. It has only made me dislike them more than I already do, I'm sorry to say but it is true. But I thank God that people did survive these atrocities and lived to tell their horrific story. Let's hope that President Bashir has his day in court. He will I supposed unless the UN continues to postpone it. Great movie!