For Mwangi, "Softie" serves as testament of the domesticity he's been absent from to satisfy the demands of his thankless vocation. But for the rest of us, it stands as a portrait of the kind of selfless...

The on-the-ground campaigning and complex history could use a better shape than the film's fits and starts.

Softie will inspire those who feel that resistance to power is futile and serve as a warning to those who think such a degradation of democracy as is happening in Kenya can't happen here.

Softie doesn't necessarily provide a 360-degree view of Kenyan politics, or even its hero (who attracted some controversy himself in the last couple years), but what we do get is pretty eye-opening.