Humbug

Before watching the documentary The United States of Hoodoo, it probably has as little idea of ​​the audience in the movie Voodoo religion. Afterwards, however, did not.
The starting point seems really promising. The German director Oliver Hardt follows the black American author Darius James on his journey through the U.S., where he will explore the origins of the Voodoo religion and its roots in American society. He meets an artist, teacher and friends of tries and, from them we learn more about this foreign culture.
Unfortunately, it remains at the trial. James proves to be a strange questioner. He often seems strangely uninterested or even scattered, hooked quite interesting in the present moment not to be, but his most boring talking endlessly about trivial talk long. It lacks a coherent strategy. Many of the respondents have done only very remotely connected with the actual topic. The film fails because something extraordinary to show or even unknown, James talks about the weather instead. When he then towards the end of ten minutes a session with his friends discussed above, where a just-cooked food comes from, you will lose viewers as completely out of patience. Why should an interest in this "gumbo" court? What is the significance of its origin at all? All that remains, like so many mysteries. Certainly, even a broad approach to topic in a documentary to be useful: Just The United States of Hoodoo would take a more committed or just more interesting main character.
So the movie is good, unfortunately that is not the character study yet to discover an unknown religion and culture. A small number of people have taken a short time to tell quite interesting, some of the intermediate sections of music flashed a certain beauty, but remains a perception out completely. Afterwards you have not learned much new, and knows so much about voodoo as before. Darius James says at the end of himself, he "would have only scratched the surface." Because he's right.