![]() The plot begins with Captain Alex, a highly-skilled Ugandan Special Forces (USF) officer and a celebrated national hero, being ordered by the President of Uganda to take his platoon of commandos to the jungle to carry out a deep raid on a base that is home to the deadly Tiger Mafia gang, described as a large gang that rules Kampala and the suburbs around the city with an iron fist, now on the run due to several defeats at the hands of the USF. Much of its popularity overseas is owed to its energetic YouTube trailers, low quality but exciting action/gunfight sequences, and authentic action styling and camera work. 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. 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. ![]() 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".
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