![]() ![]() ![]() So it’s safe to say that their reach has far overshot their own humble expectations. Ken: This film is available in several places, including on Amazon. ![]() Only a few of these films have ever been seen in the U.S., the most famous of them being Captain Alex, which was his first feature. That guy has apparently produced more than 44 feature films, the vast majority of which have only been seen in the poor neighborhoods of Uganda, mostly in his home village Wakaliga outside of Kampala, the Ugandan capital. Jim: I could likewise talk about everything Emmie-related for hours, but first, just to qualify-this isn’t the director or something, he’s a guy who works with director Nabwana IGG, which stands (apparently) for Nabwana Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey. ![]() But mostly, I think you’ll agree, we have VJ Emmie, the narrator, who is making enthusiastic, good-natured riffs on the very movie he himself helped to make, as an audio track that is inextricably and inseparably part of the movie itself. We’ve got crooked drug mafiosos, valiant local military police and Ugandan Bruce Lee. We’ve got guns that are transparently just hunks of nailed-together wood and tubing, spray-painted with jungle camo patterns, squibs that are basically just. Ken: Folks, we’ve got green-screened helicopter sequences that look like they were designed in MS Paint. And in that regard, I think I’m a legitimate fan of Who Killed Captain Alex? the first widely-released film from “Wakaliwood.” Maybe you can describe the general tone of this film, Jim. But as you know, Jim, I have a very real soft spot for entries that are EARNEST even if they are also REALLY BAD. Ken: The humble village of Wakaliga is indeed the last place you might expect a BEST ACTION MOVIE to come from. But Ken: We’ve never dipped a toe in Uganda before, until now. In the last two years, we’ve hit practically every style of bad, weird or ultra low-budget film ever made. Jim: Ken, it seems like only yesterday that we were recoiling in disgust from The Book of Henry, our very first entry. Did you realize we are now at the end of our second year of Bad Movie Diaries? I’m celebrating by being in the Midwest during record cold temperatures Ken: Jim, it’s another sweet November for us. In this occasional series, they watch and then discuss the fallout of a particularly painful film. Jim Vorel and Kenneth Lowe are connoisseurs of terrible movies. ![]()
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