History Film / WhoKilledCaptainAlex

''Who Killed Captain Alex?'' is an independent, low budget Ugandan action movie, produced by Ramon Film Productions, and is billed as "Uganda's first action movie". The film was made for over a year and a half in early 2010 on a budget of less than $85 US Dollars (215,000 Ugandan shillings; or about $256 at Uganda's 2010 private consumption PPP conversion factor), which was raised via crowdfunding websites and donations. It was mostly filmed in the Wakaliga slum of the Ugandan capital of Kampala for much of its production, and a majority of the props seen were homemade. Much of its popularity overseas is owed to its energetic Website/YouTube trailers, low quality but exciting action/gunfight sequences, and authentic action styling and camera work.

* RiddleForTheAges: [[spoiler:Why no, you're not going to find out who killed Captain Alex]]. Not even the ''director'' knows the answer. This has become a running gag in Wakaliwood's following films.

* TakeThat: Emmie claims that the woman the Tiger Mafia capture at one point was captured because they caught her watching [[UsefulNotes/{{Nigeria}} Nigerian movies]]. He also claims that she's promising to never watch UsefulNotes/{{Nollywood}} again.

* FakeRussian: One of the prominent Tiger Goon soldiers is a Russian mercenary, whose actor is obviously ''not'' Russian.

* PowerWalk: The Tiger Mafia gang are seen doing this at certain points; during their first walk, VJ Emmie parodies the trope.
-->"They walk slow [[DumbMuscle 'cause they think slow]]. Slow, but sure."

** The movie is scored with whatever music was royalty free. VJ Emmie lampshades the use of totally inappropriate music as the Tiger Mafia gang doing an PowerWalk to the sound of soft, soulful piano music (actually a MIDI cover of Music/{{ABBA}}'s "Mamma Mia").

* EvilIsHammy: Everyone in this movie is [[LargeHam hammy]], but Richard tales the cake as he is prone to loud, large hams, which is fitting for such a villain filled with {{Wrath}}.

* YourMom: After Captain Alex breaks up a bar brawl between his soldiers and the villagers, one of the villagers throws his drink at him in anger. He is then thrown to the ground by Alex and one of his soldiers, picked up by Alex by collar, and asked who he is. He answers with "yo mama", which earns him being thrown on the ground again. After the soldiers leave, he vents on a hapless barmaid by throwing a bottle at her.

* CurseCutShort: One of Richard's escaped wives asks Bruce if he can have one of the fish he caught. Bruce's response is a zoomed-in glare, and VJ Emmie translates for s:

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Zig-zagged. Richard deeply loves his brother and is distraught to learn that he's been captured. Conversely, he sees his wives as being expendable and is [[BadBoss downright abusive with his underlings]].

* {{Expy}}: A Russian mercenary with a large machinegun and a mostly cosmetic bandolier? [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Why does that sound familiar?]]

* AuthorityEqualsAssKicking: Richard turns out to be quite a formidable in the final battle, even managing to shoot down two helicopters with a hand-held rifle.

:: A sequel was actually filmed, titled ''Tebaatusasula'' ("Those Who Were Screwed Over"), but [[MissingEpisode the hard drives containing the footage were wiped in a power outage]], leaving the trailer as the only evidence of the film's existence.

!!This film series contains examples of:

* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** At one point, the camera pans over a flock of marabou storks, and the Video Joker seemingly randomly remarks, "Dinosaurs." [[https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_10 Birds are officially classified as such.]]
** There really is a Shaolin school in Uganda, and some of the actors enter kung fu tournaments regularly.
** There [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denel_Rooivalk exist]] helicopters that fire the way the one depicted in this film does, and the director based them on a personal experience he had with them.

* {{Gorn}}: Since the film crew lacked practical blood effects, a lot of the blood seen in the film was done using real bovine blood.

* KungFuJesus: ''Literally''. One action scene takes place near the statue of Christ the Redeemer; as VJ Emmie cries "Help us, God!", [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the statue clones itself and crushes the top of Elizabeth Tower]].

-->"They walk slow [[TakeThat 'cause they think slow]]. Slow, but sure."

* VillainousBreakdown: Richard finally snaps at the end of the movie when he tries to escape and grabs an automatic BFG and aims all over the place.

* RealityHasNoSubtitles: Parts of the movie are either not subtitled or "subtitled" with a textual version of VJ Emmie's occasional GagDub (likely because, according to the intro, the movie was initially made for internal circulation in the director's village), leaving the audience from outside of East Africa at a loss to what the actors ''really'' said.