Who Killed Captain Alex?
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- surreal
- redemptive
- funny
Warm, breathless, measured action / comedy, surreal in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Recognized as Uganda’s first action film, Who Killed Captain Alex? is about the aftermath of a police raid in Kampala in which a police captain is killed.
Our read · Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal action · comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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What watching it is actually like.
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