Bad Black

This is one of the best action movies. You can watch it on YouTube (for free). Ramon Film Productions have produced many great films including horror, action, drama, and more. Bad Black is a recommended watch for anyone who likes dedicated action movies. It brings you through many emotions and is based off of a true story.

Imagine the most bizarre film you can possibly imagine. Now imagine if it was made in a Ugandan slum with no budget. Yes, that is this movie.

"If it's so low quality, why did you give it 10 stars???"

Because this film had my eyes glued to the screen the whole time. Not even the highest budget, best-shot film of all time can claim the ability to keep my 7-second attention span off my phone, but this strange-as-heck film kept my eyes wide and my lungs ready for laughter.

The plot is bizarrely nonlinear, the characters are great, the cinematography is surprisingly okay for it being handheld the whole time, there are more twists than a pretzel, and I would recommend this film to anybody. Plus, my laptop is now adorned with a Wakaliwood sticker, which came with the film.

Having started the year with Uganda's first action movie, the ultra low-budget smash hit Who Killed Captain Alex?, there is no better way to wrap this year than by returning to Wakaliwood in order to bring my 2021 journey in film full circle. A powerhouse of unbridled energy & limitless creativity, Bad Black is yet another fun, enjoyable & wholesome delight from the humble artists operating from the slums of Wakaliga.

Written, produced, directed, edited & photographed by Nabwana I. G. G., what excludes his works from the "so bad it's good" category is the actual zest, drive & imagination behind his efforts. Its comparison to a movie like The Room has no merit coz where Tommy Wiseau's disaster had us laughing at his utter incompetency, Nabwana's film has us sharing a laugh with him & his crew but with an admiration for what he pulls off with just $65 budget.

Bad Black features a story that has it all: action, drama, crime, conflict, conspiracy, bizarre twists & more, all presented in a wicked non-linear structure and accompanied by Video Joker Emmie's rib-tickling narration that makes the ride endlessly amusing. As before, the film exudes a genuine sense of joy which allows the love, heart & honesty to shine through in ways that even the best of Hollywood fails to produce most times despite all their money & resources.

Overall, Bad Black makes for a wild, hilarious & rambunctious offering from the self-taught Ugandan filmmaker who makes magic happen with mere scraps of filmmaking tools and gets maximum mileage out of minimal resources. The primary purpose of movies is to entertain, and Bad Black more than delivers on that. A labour of love in all its unadulterated glory, this Wakaliwood epic runs entirely on Nabwana's passion for filmmaking and is as endearing as it is ridiculously entertaining.

The story of Wakaliwood is so wholesome. This is a pretty well made and entertaining movie. Has more cohesive story than several blockbuster Hollywood movies. Not to mention the Twitch meta that these movies ended up creating.

At first I thought maybe 8/10 was too high a score, but then remembered that this 70-minute film contains:

• VJ Emmie crushing it and being constantly hilarious
• A bank heist
• A car chase
• Multiple shootouts and fist fights
• A prison break sequence
• A training montage
• Cows!
• A 6-year-old kid nicknamed Wesley Snipes (and sometimes called 'Ugandan Miyagi) who has super strength
• A courtroom sequence
• A token white guy who actually fits in surprisingly well and is pretty damn funny
• Poop humour
• A surprisingly heavy after credits scene that gives a big middle finger to Marvel's tradition of making the after credits scene goofy/fun
• An unexpected shoutout to 24 and an even more unexpected to the fantastic stuntwoman ZOE BELL of all people!!!

There's more but I don't want to ruin it. Of course it's not perfect, but it's charming and not only shows that Who Killed Captain Alex wasn't a fluke- it arguably exceeds it in quality. Great stuff, and free on YouTube to boot.