If a movie can raise awareness of any issue that should concern us, that is to be applauded. No matter who made the film and if you didn't like what he did previously (especially concerning the game to movie franchise overall). Familiar faces/actors who surely were driven to do this not just because of the money, but because they wanted to help in showing people what went on in Darfur.The beginning makes you wonder though, because it could've been done as a documentary as well. You have survivors and real people being interviewed by our actors pretending to be journalists. But that question goes away once it goes into action territory, where it gets a bit fantastical. You may criticize that part, but that is what excuses this not being a documentary. So in trying to make people listen we go back to the action movie blueprint. I don't think it defies the purpose and all is shot well. You may argue about a couple of writing, editing and character decisions, but you could also say that it's nitpicking ... One of the better Boll movies, though still not the masterpiece he would like you to believe this is

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.

a reviewer here called it "badly made exploitative violence pornography". and thats exactly what it is.To be more specific: Mr Boll took "idi I smotri" /check it on IMDb/ and thought: lets copy the ultra violence village burning scene 1:1 and stretch into 1 full hour. then we sell it as an "eye opener" and ride the same wave Schindlers List did in the early 90ies. There will also be a whole generation of people who have never seen "Idi I smotri" (or similar movies) and thus will think "Darfur" is unique.furthermore: how could ANYONE possibly ever doubt or criticize the "moral message" Darfur pretends to convey? those people must be either blatant racists or plain inhuman retards. no? perfect! oh .... "SPOILER WARNING"... the first half of the movie is a cheese feast that would almost pass as a parody. one thousand color filtered close ups of smiling children and happy, peaceful villagers. Even the plumpness of "i wear glasses, thus, I am civilized" is not withheld. Some reviewer pointed out,that Boll doesn't care a fart about darfur and their people, and I found this blatantly obvious as well.The other half of this movie is a chaotic gore feast. Boll, always a pioneer in misstepping, has a hundred children and babies slaughtered. And then some more. and why not? its the simple formula of all pornography: "its disgusting and despicable, but i just cant take my eyes of this woman's lovely breasts. lets have some more". Darfur is indeed a truly cheap attempt to harvest money from the naive, and boll does -again- and admirable job of having no shame to violate anything that is exploitable.I would assume only the very young or blessedly unknowing of any mass market popcorn media truly fall for bolls petty ploy. Everybody else should feel insulted by this fraud of a film.Only the truly nasty laugh and laugh about this movie. like Mr. Boll, when he reads the user reviews by people who felt "truly moved".

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.