Review of God Loves Uganda (2013) by Jennifer L — 24 Jun 2013

This suffers by comparison to "Call Me Kuchu" which is a great movie. This one spends too much time trying to connect dots between "Conservative Christian" causes in America and the violent homophobia in Uganda.

I think that's a bit of a a red herring; the missionaries aren't teaching these guys to hate and to persecute, and taking money from us hardly makes Ugandans US puppets. A film that dealt a bit closer to the ground-level reality of life in Uganda would be preferable to me; this one's more concerned with what US funding from 10 years ago did than with what's going on now, and doesn't bring the horror of the current situation out very strongly - just watching Ssempa on youtube as millions have done is more illustrative.

Preconceived agenda, weak film.