Septic sludge, or in ’60s film lingo, Mondo Crappo. This crime melodrama is the first feature created indigenously in the former Belgian Congo, so why does “visionary” auteur Djo Munga make Kinshasa look like a blocked toilet? This spew of blaxploitation clichés with a Third World spin offers violence, torture, sexism, nasty snarls, brutal poverty, a cute urchin, and a wow body (Manie Malone). Hoji Fortuna is like a best-in-show Snoop Dogg as a vile gangster, Patsha Bay is an absurdly cocky hero, and Marlene Longange is oddly funny as a militia officer who wants to be a kick-ass Pam Grier. This is not the Congo of The Nun’s Story. (2011) — David Elliott
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