Before I say anything about Who Killed Captain Alex, I would like to celebrate the brilliant receipt I got for the DVD, in which the "IGG, Ebola Hunter, and the Wakaliwood Cannibalz" assured me "Tiger Mafia will deliver to your fortress in UK....Thank you for loving action movies, We hope to kill you one day."
Captain Alex is a zero budget action movie from Uganda, which I picked up in the hopes to beef up my So Bad, It's Good library. Alas, my expectations for laughably bad special effects, scripting and acting have been proven to be a bit rash. The film certainly does have laughably bad special effects, scripting and acting, but I don't feel right about laughing at it. Captain Alex is not so bad its good. It isn't so bad it's horrible. It is so bad, I actually don't feel right trying to put it on some kind of qualifying scale.
Captain Alex is a lot like watching an eight year old nephew's home movie, made back in the late 90s on their dad's old camcorder. Of course it is going to be bad, but you instinctively don't hold your nephew to the same standards as you would a George Miller movie. Instead, slightly condescendingly, you congratulate them on doing so well, and you genuinely mean it. That's how I feel with Captain Alex - I naturally want to congratulate them on doing so well, fully aware that by any objective standard this should be the worst film I've ever seen.
So that's my recommendation. As a simulacrum of the best film your 8 year old nephew ever made, you will like it.
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Before I say anything about Who Killed Captain Alex, I would like to celebrate the brilliant receipt I got for the DVD, in which the "IGG, Ebola Hunter, and the Wakaliwood Cannibalz" assured me "Tiger Mafia will deliver to your fortress in UK....Thank you for loving action movies, We hope to kill you one day."
Captain Alex is a zero budget action movie from Uganda, which I picked up in the hopes to beef up my So Bad, It's Good library. Alas, my expectations for laughably bad special effects, scripting and acting have been proven to be a bit rash. The film certainly does have laughably bad special effects, scripting and acting, but I don't feel right about laughing at it. Captain Alex is not so bad its good. It isn't so bad it's horrible. It is so bad, I actually don't feel right trying to put it on some kind of qualifying scale.
Captain Alex is a lot like watching an eight year old nephew's home movie, made back in the late 90s on their dad's old camcorder. Of course it is going to be bad, but you instinctively don't hold your nephew to the same standards as you would a George Miller movie. Instead, slightly condescendingly, you congratulate them on doing so well, and you genuinely mean it. That's how I feel with Captain Alex - I naturally want to congratulate them on doing so well, fully aware that by any objective standard this should be the worst film I've ever seen.
So that's my recommendation. As a simulacrum of the best film your 8 year old nephew ever made, you will like it.