Some people criticize it saying it displays yet another negative image of Africa . I say, whatever. It's a good thriller and very entertaining. If Americans can make gangster movies without anyone over-analyzing the socio-political image it portrays and what not then why can't an African film maker be allowed to produce some gangster entertainment too? It's not a deep movie trying to give a meaningful insight into Kinshasa, it for entertainment so stop analyzing and enjoy! :)
I'm an African-American actress/indie filmmaker living in New York. I love the vibrancy, passion and humanity of this film. Great cinematography, directing and acting. Thanks for sharing.
I like it, it's transmit my original background story, am so proud of Congolese cinema, they really did their jobs, movie is so nice and clean printed! Hurraaaahhhh VIva Riva!
“The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of white supremacist beliefs, and the structures which uphold them, in every area of African life. It must be stressed, however, that decolonisation does not mean ignorance of foreign traditions; it simply means denial of their authority and withdrawal of allegiance from them.”
One of my FAVE movie!!!and to add to my LOVE for this movie, it was uploaded on MAY 18th which happens to be my Birthday!...not that it matters to anyone,but it's in perfect chi with where i'm going with my acting and me as a person:)
feel proud to b from Africa (Congolese) what a nice movie I have the DVD n watching it now nice movie....never knew Congolese and Angolan can pull something like this amazing am soooo PROUD
Every time i watch movies of this kind i feel more and more African. I dont care what other people say or comment because they always want us Africans to be under their feet and movies like this one pisses them off. Viva Riva is a movie of its kind.. looking forward to watching more movies like this one.
I saw that movie and for me it was best movie I have seen this year. Only Omo Ghetto 2 came a far second. Viva Riva is a movie that scores A on all counts - picture, video, sound, cast and the storyline. It was action packed and full of suspense, but at the same time tells the story of the harsh reality of life when a country is at War! I ll watch this movie again & again.
This is a great film. I have watched it, people will be very pleasantly surprised! Great work Steven! Not seen a better performance in a while from the continent.
Its not our fault RACIST white people are first to make comments and accusations but will never confront face to face they are nothing but ignorant fringe lunatics.. and most of all COWARDS Ignore them! that is all...
Movies like this make me soooo proud to be African. I don't care what the haters and pessimists say, you condemn Africa for its problems yet when young people try great stuff like this you still condemn. Good or bad, people will always talk crap. So, go Viva Riva and make more movies.
@skeetai85 I don't think youtube is a reflection of the real world... the horrible comments are just from stupid teenagers who have nothing better to do than annoy people on the internet and make racist comments about black people, but I'm sure they would be first in line to have sex with naomi campbell, beyonce, rihanna and 100s of other black actresses and singers.
diamonds, uranium, coltan, oil, gold is what people get out of Congo while they watch our families being killed our women raped and kids slaughterd all in the name of capitalism.. and then you dare saying we ought to stop bringing children in this world ... AND CONGO IS JUST ONE OF MANY COUNTRIES THAT HAVE BEEN VIOLATED BY THE "WEST" thanks a bunch for your religions and your technologies
Moi, j'ai vu cette film le derniere soir a Toronto. J'aime cette film beaucoup. I thought it was really gritty, sexy, violent, kinetic. Pure film noire that used the setting of Kinshasa to great advantage. I also thought it was a parable about what's going to happen when the world at large runs out of oil. I spent 3 months traversing Zaire in 1985. I was amazed to go there again, virtually. But the Zaire I lived in was an innocent one.
Anyway......this movie looks amazing. There's war because people don't know how to walk away from arguments aka the comments below....let's calm it down and get back to the movie people.
This movie was amazing! This trailer was pretty good, but the movie is way better. If you want to see the whole movie for free in great quality Just google y slides and the page should come up first result. y s l i d e s is where I watched it and didn't have any problems. I would just put the website address here, but I don't want youtube to mark my account as spam. LOL
Yes the CIA had some responsibility for the wars - but my point is that this is one of the first films to come out of the DRC and certainly one of the best - it deserves to be given a chance and not written off. What I think we Africans can offer to world cinema is an authentic soul and energy that's been missing for decades. It's our turn.
This movie has more soul and energy than anything coming out of hollywood at the moment - stop looking for your big name actors and try something different - wake up planet earth africa is the future
Film are not produced and directed win an aware, Winning comes later, after the fact. The sole purpose of Cinema is to excite the “gay matter” to make us think, aware and conscious, if not question the dogma. Only idiots and morons make movies for vanity or financial gains. Why not sell drugs or be a processional killer if money is what you are after. Your logic is no different then the obtuse, dim-witted film maker you are defending.
'The sole purpose of Cinema is to excite the “gray matter” '- Cinema is first about dreams, fantasies and entertainment. Exciting the intellect is a spill-over effect, not be confused with its primary aim. I am a sure a positive message can be conveyed and drawn from a Chaplin short film, but I doubt that was the aim of those early cinema pioneers. 'Only idiots and morons make movies for vanity or financial gains.' - Vanity, yes. Financial? Now this is just naive.
'Your logic is no different then the obtuse, dim-witted film maker you are defending.'- My argument is perfectly intelligible. If you find holes in my logic, then it's a short-coming from your part. That said, the point of this debate should have been a level-headed and mature exchange of ideas and opinions. I regret to see that you are more interested in putting your ''considerable'' intellect on show and resorted to insults, so there no point taking this any further.
You have shown and proven the argument that like minded people think alike. No offense. Why produce and directed this rubbish? When you have such rich culture in the DRC? Why not portrait that, instead you copy Western nonsense gangster style cinema without consequence, as though you have no culture of your own.
Read about real film makers: Martin Scorsese, Francis Scapula, John Singleton, Quentin Tarantino, Ang Lee, David Lynch, even better one of Africa’s best film maker Senegalese Ousmane Sembène. Do your homework before you produce rubbish and slender your own DRC.
This movie was the bomb! This trailer doesn't allow the movie any sort of justice. If you want to see the whole film for free an in great quality Just google y slides and the site should come up first result. y-slides is where I watched it and didn't have any problems. I would just put the website URL but I don't want youtube to mark my comment as spam. LOL
Viva Riva! practically swept the African Movie Academy Awards, 2011, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Production Design. It also won the Best Picture at the Pan African Film Festival, 2011 and was a selection of the Berlin International, Toronto International and SXSW film festivals. Definitely, a must see!!
Typical African trash, no sense of culture or value, the Congolese is the lost soul in Africa, no culture, No values, No self respect, no self worth. This movie, if I can call it so, clearly shows the negativity of colonization, the core destruction of a people. Of course without a culture of their own, you blindly follow your colonial master without consequence.
I take it that you have seen the film, but didn't find it to your liking. That's fair enough, but why so much arrogance and elitism? I know first-hand how hard it is to get in to these big film festivals such as the Toronto and the Berlin, and if 'Viva Riva' was part of the official selection then, as Congolese, I feel proud of their accomplishments, and so should you. Furthermore, this film will in the cinemas UK-wide from Friday. I would say well done and Viva Riva!
@zola29 Typical African trash, no sense of culture or value, the Congolese is the lost soul in Africa, no culture, No values, No self respect, no self worth. This movie, if I can call it so, clearly shows the negativity of colonization, the core destruction of a people. Of course without a culture of their own, you blindly follow your colonial master without consequence.
@zola29 I agree - why tear it down when there is so much truly crap american rubbish out there - I saw it at DIFF and I can say this film is a good effort and definitely deserved its place in Berlin and Toronto. Viva
This trailer is pretty good, but it doesn’t do the film any justice. Djo Munga did some art studies in college and the cinematography really captivates in this film. There’s top notch acting, heart pounding action scenes, and an overall deep story.
Could people just stop comparing this to American flicks, it's disrespectful and rude, in case your mama didn't tell you. Most Europeans and Americans just need to grow some politeness, and if they can grow a brain with it that would be great too. I was born and grew up in Europe and had to move to the so called third world as soon as I could... I just can't stand the ignorant arrogance towards the rest of the world. No wonder most asians I have come across call white people stupid!
would all the people looking at the trailer stop saying horrible things and the comment about people in these countries should stop having kids you guys are ignorant people your computer or phone or laptop has something from Congo ok you eurpean countries and americans you guys make africa corrupt to steal are minerals so before you go slagging people off what comes out you country and who are you are you going to make it better just cause you live in a wealthy country dosent give you the righ
@GHOSTREET2KGODFREY Don't mind their ignorance... it's common knowledge that some people simply lack the cognition. I do believe that a lot of people from Europe and the US still do descent from the neanderthals... anthropologists are starting to discover that these weren't completely extinct after all, and you know what? All it takes to confirm that these days is to log on and read a few comments on youtube. Science! Signed: mixed raced person. I belong to both worlds so I can say it, tk u!
@DeadlyFul1 you may be right, and you guys have fewer kids as you use birth control and you got money for that. But either way immorality is a fcuk'd up vice
@DeadlyFul1 so is spelled with one o and pills has two l's, so dont worry about us here in africa we will sort out our children rather worry about your shitty spelling DICK!
@maishi I don't think it was ever a french colony. It was colonized by the Spanish, and at times was occupied by the Haitians. But the official language has always been spanish. And there are some who speak Haitian Creole as leftover from their occupation of the DR. But even though creole is close to french it isn't french.
@jamesburdette actually, they are speaking Lingala which is a local language mostly spoken in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was a Belgian Colony. The Congolese people have never spoken Creole or Spanish and they were never occupied by the French or the Haitians...
@jamesburdette actually, they are speaking Lingala which is a local language mostly spoken in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was a Belgian Colony. The Congolese people have never spoken Creole or Spanish and they were never occupied by the French or the Haitians...
@Wawaamu1. I'm guessing you didn't read the history of comments leading up to the last one I made. I was never talking about the DRC. I was, however, talking about the DR.
@annak01 I got that history from a textbook. You can't begin to correct me because there is nothing to correct. The DR was colonized by the Spanish and at times occupied by the Haitians. Look it up.
@slickizz Ur right bro that the DRC was colonized by the "belgians" not "belgiums". But I was never talking about the DRC. I was talking about the DR (Dominican Republic).
@PlowThrough8 If I say black I'm talking about skin color, not about origin. Even if I were talking about origin, carribeans are still "black", they were brought there from africa to work as slaves.
And i dont see how this trailer is related to jamaica, they always say "Kinshasa", an buddy, that's in Congo,Africa ;)
@PlowThrough8 Man whats your problem? In the video description its stated thats in DRC, democratic republic of congo, so wtf are jamaicans doing there in your phantasy??? Are you messing up videos?
And the movie is realy like a black Version of Scarface, even the thing with the women. I bet the main protagoinist, Riva will take Azor's place after a while, just like in Scarface.
@theRevolutionBegin Ok you can like tha movie whatev. dominican i didnt, they got great baseball players, hanley, reyes, ortiz and so on, jamaica has usain bolt. but this is nothing like scarface. did u even watch it? scarface my fav movie dawg. u bent. this movie they dont leave there home country. tony is a cocaine murderin cowboy from cuba makin tha world his in tha US In tha early 80's. this film is about dominicans & gasoline. whats your problem?
@flashthehousecat Yep, africa is the happening place today. All the cool kids hang out there. You betcha. "Freshest" place I've ever seen. By far! /sarcasim
@L0zz0 Have you ever left your suburban enclave of nice neat America? Have you? You gotta open your mind brother - here in Africa we are actually doing something to survive the havoc that the colonialists and global capitalists have wreaked on this planet - yes it is fresh and yes there are 'cool kids' - I am sure you have absolutely no idea about what's happening here or else you wouldn't spend so much time slagging us off - or maybe it's about some other insecurity? whats your beef?
@flashthehousecat I have no beef with Africa. I do find it amusing that so many people attack someone who simply provides their assessment of a movie based on it's trailer. An assessment that appears to be one of popular belief. I'm actually what people would call a world traveler and don't live in "nice neat America" as you put it. My beef, if I do have one, is with short sighted simpletons such as yourself who assume everyone on the internet must be from America.
@flashthehousecat Ran out of space. As far as your "colonialists and global capitalists" comment goes, is this the new crux for Africa? I can't keep track of how many excuses they use or what the new ones are as to why they can't unite or why they keep killing off each other. The majority of the rest of the world has. So I guess it's all those colonialists and global capitalists that are to blame. (BTW, I'm assuming you meant only the white versions of these and not the black counterparts.
@L0zz0 I dont have time to tit for tat but just to fill you in the DRC is considered the richest coutry in the worl in regards mineral deposits. During King Leipold of belgiums reign the population was reduced by half through genocide and land grabs. After a troubled history when it finaly gained democracy under Patrice Lumumba that great leader was assassinated in a CIA backed plot. the wars that have ravaged DRC in the last decade have claimed over 5 million lives.
@flashthehousecat And the CIA is to be blamed for the wars? Anything to not take responsibility for your own peoples actions and lack of actions right? (By "your" I'm talking about the Congo, not you specifically.) The DRC is not considered the richest country due to it's mineral deposits. That information is outdated due to new discoveries in another country last year. I'll let you do the digging to figure out which, but it's very interesting which it is.
@flashthehousecat i saw the Lumumba, you forgot to mention his own people also betrayed him. I don't think all of Congo's problems can only be blamed on Colonizers and western anymore.
@soursop The Senate committee, headed by the late Frank Church (D-Idaho), finally decided there was "a reasonable inference" that Eisenhower had authorized Lumumba's assassination, but stopped short of a firm finding. The CIA acted as though the president had given the go-ahead, sending one of its scientists to the Congo in September 1960 with a vial of deadly poison that could be injected into something Lumumba might eat.
@charbonelle (continued from the previous post) "In high quarters here, it is the clear-cut conclusion that if [Lumumba] continues to hold high office, the inevitable result will at best be chaos and at worst pave the way to Communist takeover. . . . His removal must be an urgent and prime objective," Dulles cabled the CIA station chief in the Congo on Aug. 26, 1960.
@charbonelle Last year, the BBC ran two documentaries on the tragic history of this central African state. Who Killed Lumumba?Belgian military chiefs made nightly visits to Mobutu, then head of the army, and President Kasavubu, to plot Lumumba's downfall. Colonel Louis Maliere spoke of the millions of francs he brought over for this purpose. The plot to kill Lumumba was called “Operation Barracuda” and was run by the Belgian Minister for African Affairs, Count d'Aspremont.
@charbonelle The Belgium government ordered Kasavubu to sack Lumumba, who turned to the new parliament and won two votes of confidence. Mobutu then lead a coup d'état and Lumumba was placed under house arrest, from which he escaped only to be captured by troops loyal to Mobutu. Count d'Aspremont ordered him be taken to Katanga province and was shot by a firing squad commanded by Belgian officers.The Belgian commander police forceGerard Soete chopped up the corpses before dissolving them in acid.
@charbonelle The central mystery of Lumumba's death remains. Why was he killed? Why was the might of at least three Western powers bent on eliminating this one man—even as he was held prisoner, reviled and beaten by his captors and was without military or political power. Some say the answer is that he posed a threat to the West because he was a committed Pan-Africanist, and since his death he has certainly taken on the status of a Pan-African martyr.
@L0zz0 it is terrible! I just saw it. Wasted opportunity by makers of movie to do something groundbreaking, wasted my movie watching time. The only good actor was the Angolan bad-guy Cesar.
But adding "La" would refer to "Riva" as an item instead of a person right? I'm not too sure since it's been a while since my last spanish class but that's what I remember. :-/
No white guys at all. Black people keeping white men down
fgsfjal 1 week ago
Oh my GOD! I could have been in this movie, I just didn't know about it's production. I wasn't aware of nothing.
Tomtheartist 1 week ago
Some people criticize it saying it displays yet another negative image of Africa . I say, whatever. It's a good thriller and very entertaining. If Americans can make gangster movies without anyone over-analyzing the socio-political image it portrays and what not then why can't an African film maker be allowed to produce some gangster entertainment too? It's not a deep movie trying to give a meaningful insight into Kinshasa, it for entertainment so stop analyzing and enjoy! :)
shanghaiedsigrid 2 weeks ago
I'm an African-American actress/indie filmmaker living in New York. I love the vibrancy, passion and humanity of this film. Great cinematography, directing and acting. Thanks for sharing.
colstonlchinese 1 month ago
What kind of language are they speaking in this movie??
Shon9tilR 2 months ago
@Shon9tilR I think it's Lingala...
Alkebulan32 2 months ago
@Shon9tilR a bit of everything, Lingala, French, Portuguese
shanghaiedsigrid 2 weeks ago
I like it, it's transmit my original background story, am so proud of Congolese cinema, they really did their jobs, movie is so nice and clean printed! Hurraaaahhhh VIva Riva!
MrOdiane 2 months ago
To Quote Chinweizu Ibekwe:
“The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of white supremacist beliefs, and the structures which uphold them, in every area of African life. It must be stressed, however, that decolonisation does not mean ignorance of foreign traditions; it simply means denial of their authority and withdrawal of allegiance from them.”
charbonelle 2 months ago
i loved this film! I live in NZ so I get to see fuck all African cinema and it was so cool seeing a film from the Congo!
cexpistol2 2 months ago
Very good movie, brothers!
Hope the situation in African countries will improve.
Greetings from Romania!
brv7l 3 months ago
One of my FAVE movie!!!and to add to my LOVE for this movie, it was uploaded on MAY 18th which happens to be my Birthday!...not that it matters to anyone,but it's in perfect chi with where i'm going with my acting and me as a person:)
AFRIKASFINEST 3 months ago
Dope movie!!!
ronzrico 3 months ago
some people confused the dislike button for the like button, great movie.
simbitino 3 months ago
aweosome movie
StyQui 3 months ago
Seriously guys, it's a great film.. I know many of you associate "African made" with "inferior quality" but this film is top notch..
Alkebulan32 3 months ago
feel proud to b from Africa (Congolese) what a nice movie I have the DVD n watching it now nice movie....never knew Congolese and Angolan can pull something like this amazing am soooo PROUD
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Def want to check this out!
cannonballkid 4 months ago
where can I download this movie? thank you
andremonteiro2008 4 months ago
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THIS LOOK LIKE SOME A NEW PLANET OF THE APES. THUMBS UP IF YOU AGREE. AND IF YOU DONT AGREE THAN FUCK YOU
Sieberliebangbang 4 months ago
I love African cinema! Makes me proud as well being a African American.
ExoticByNature 4 months ago 6
It's coming to Helsinki Finland, Nighvision film festival 26-30.10 must go.
juunas666 4 months ago
this looks like a quality film from africa. they probably had a good budget and a good director...nice!
Atheist603 4 months ago
Every time i watch movies of this kind i feel more and more African. I dont care what other people say or comment because they always want us Africans to be under their feet and movies like this one pisses them off. Viva Riva is a movie of its kind.. looking forward to watching more movies like this one.
mugs90 4 months ago 2
I saw that movie and for me it was best movie I have seen this year. Only Omo Ghetto 2 came a far second. Viva Riva is a movie that scores A on all counts - picture, video, sound, cast and the storyline. It was action packed and full of suspense, but at the same time tells the story of the harsh reality of life when a country is at War! I ll watch this movie again & again.
tayewo121 4 months ago
shit this movie gave a bad image to Angolans ! oh well! i hope it's not reality
angolanchico 4 months ago
This is a great film. I have watched it, people will be very pleasantly surprised! Great work Steven! Not seen a better performance in a while from the continent.
MrAlbo1978 4 months ago
Look good! I will watch it tonite!!! thanks god somethin different !! greetings from Germany :)
Martkw 4 months ago
Its not our fault RACIST white people are first to make comments and accusations but will never confront face to face they are nothing but ignorant fringe lunatics.. and most of all COWARDS Ignore them! that is all...
MrElcangripai 5 months ago
@ Curacaosugar You can watch this in brusells or maybe france
Hollysprt 5 months ago
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thanks...guess i have to wait till it comes to the carribbean
curacaosugar 5 months ago
Movies like this make me soooo proud to be African. I don't care what the haters and pessimists say, you condemn Africa for its problems yet when young people try great stuff like this you still condemn. Good or bad, people will always talk crap. So, go Viva Riva and make more movies.
skeetai85 5 months ago 23
@skeetai85 I don't think youtube is a reflection of the real world... the horrible comments are just from stupid teenagers who have nothing better to do than annoy people on the internet and make racist comments about black people, but I'm sure they would be first in line to have sex with naomi campbell, beyonce, rihanna and 100s of other black actresses and singers.
soundbeans 5 months ago
diamonds, uranium, coltan, oil, gold is what people get out of Congo while they watch our families being killed our women raped and kids slaughterd all in the name of capitalism.. and then you dare saying we ought to stop bringing children in this world ... AND CONGO IS JUST ONE OF MANY COUNTRIES THAT HAVE BEEN VIOLATED BY THE "WEST" thanks a bunch for your religions and your technologies
mistoutchique 5 months ago
i can not find this movie anywhere....can someone tell me
curacaosugar 5 months ago
@curacaosugar you can watch it in belgium, holland, america,
getitbussy 5 months ago
This fucken preview gave away the whole fucken movie......fuck me in the bootypipe...fuckkkkkk dont u hate when that happens
elprimo81586 5 months ago
where can i watch or download this movie?
kisengue1 6 months ago
Moi, j'ai vu cette film le derniere soir a Toronto. J'aime cette film beaucoup. I thought it was really gritty, sexy, violent, kinetic. Pure film noire that used the setting of Kinshasa to great advantage. I also thought it was a parable about what's going to happen when the world at large runs out of oil. I spent 3 months traversing Zaire in 1985. I was amazed to go there again, virtually. But the Zaire I lived in was an innocent one.
tammanraset 6 months ago
Anyway......this movie looks amazing. There's war because people don't know how to walk away from arguments aka the comments below....let's calm it down and get back to the movie people.
tootiefluteey 6 months ago
LOL @ EXPERTS ARGUING ON FACEBOOK GO RIGHT A JOURNAL ARTICLE LOLOLOL
woopage 6 months ago 3
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This movie was amazing! This trailer was pretty good, but the movie is way better. If you want to see the whole movie for free in great quality Just google y slides and the page should come up first result. y s l i d e s is where I watched it and didn't have any problems. I would just put the website address here, but I don't want youtube to mark my account as spam. LOL
ShaneMaykd 6 months ago
Yes the CIA had some responsibility for the wars - but my point is that this is one of the first films to come out of the DRC and certainly one of the best - it deserves to be given a chance and not written off. What I think we Africans can offer to world cinema is an authentic soul and energy that's been missing for decades. It's our turn.
flashthehousecat 6 months ago
This movie has more soul and energy than anything coming out of hollywood at the moment - stop looking for your big name actors and try something different - wake up planet earth africa is the future
flashthehousecat 7 months ago
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looks great !!! i wanna watch it !!!
Lillie839 7 months ago
were can I watch THIS movie?...I live in PARIS (FRANCE)
Na koki ko mona film oyo wapi? Na vandaka na PARIS (FRANCE)
Où est-ce que je peux voir le film, j'habite à PARIS (FRANCE)
malayikah243 7 months ago
@malayikah243 the movie will be released by indigenous distribution - indigenousfilm dor co dot za
flashthehousecat 7 months ago
Film are not produced and directed win an aware, Winning comes later, after the fact. The sole purpose of Cinema is to excite the “gay matter” to make us think, aware and conscious, if not question the dogma. Only idiots and morons make movies for vanity or financial gains. Why not sell drugs or be a processional killer if money is what you are after. Your logic is no different then the obtuse, dim-witted film maker you are defending.
strategies69 7 months ago
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'The sole purpose of Cinema is to excite the “gray matter” '- Cinema is first about dreams, fantasies and entertainment. Exciting the intellect is a spill-over effect, not be confused with its primary aim. I am a sure a positive message can be conveyed and drawn from a Chaplin short film, but I doubt that was the aim of those early cinema pioneers. 'Only idiots and morons make movies for vanity or financial gains.' - Vanity, yes. Financial? Now this is just naive.
zola29 7 months ago
'Your logic is no different then the obtuse, dim-witted film maker you are defending.'- My argument is perfectly intelligible. If you find holes in my logic, then it's a short-coming from your part. That said, the point of this debate should have been a level-headed and mature exchange of ideas and opinions. I regret to see that you are more interested in putting your ''considerable'' intellect on show and resorted to insults, so there no point taking this any further.
zola29 7 months ago
You have shown and proven the argument that like minded people think alike. No offense. Why produce and directed this rubbish? When you have such rich culture in the DRC? Why not portrait that, instead you copy Western nonsense gangster style cinema without consequence, as though you have no culture of your own.
strategies69 7 months ago
Read about real film makers: Martin Scorsese, Francis Scapula, John Singleton, Quentin Tarantino, Ang Lee, David Lynch, even better one of Africa’s best film maker Senegalese Ousmane Sembène. Do your homework before you produce rubbish and slender your own DRC.
Good luck to you.
strategies69 7 months ago
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This movie was the bomb! This trailer doesn't allow the movie any sort of justice. If you want to see the whole film for free an in great quality Just google y slides and the site should come up first result. y-slides is where I watched it and didn't have any problems. I would just put the website URL but I don't want youtube to mark my comment as spam. LOL
LenaChasta 7 months ago
this movie could look a lot better if there wasn't that annoying guy with the creepy voice talking at the background
zouzounakiaable 7 months ago
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Great Picture,awesome directing and of course great guy like the major actor....I'm from naija and i just can't take nap to see this in Europe.....
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Viva Riva! practically swept the African Movie Academy Awards, 2011, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Production Design. It also won the Best Picture at the Pan African Film Festival, 2011 and was a selection of the Berlin International, Toronto International and SXSW film festivals. Definitely, a must see!!
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Typical African trash, no sense of culture or value, the Congolese is the lost soul in Africa, no culture, No values, No self respect, no self worth. This movie, if I can call it so, clearly shows the negativity of colonization, the core destruction of a people. Of course without a culture of their own, you blindly follow your colonial master without consequence.
strategies69 8 months ago
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I take it that you have seen the film, but didn't find it to your liking. That's fair enough, but why so much arrogance and elitism? I know first-hand how hard it is to get in to these big film festivals such as the Toronto and the Berlin, and if 'Viva Riva' was part of the official selection then, as Congolese, I feel proud of their accomplishments, and so should you. Furthermore, this film will in the cinemas UK-wide from Friday. I would say well done and Viva Riva!
zola29 7 months ago
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@zola29 Typical African trash, no sense of culture or value, the Congolese is the lost soul in Africa, no culture, No values, No self respect, no self worth. This movie, if I can call it so, clearly shows the negativity of colonization, the core destruction of a people. Of course without a culture of their own, you blindly follow your colonial master without consequence.
strategies69 7 months ago
@zola29 I agree - why tear it down when there is so much truly crap american rubbish out there - I saw it at DIFF and I can say this film is a good effort and definitely deserved its place in Berlin and Toronto. Viva
flashthehousecat 7 months ago
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strategies69 8 months ago
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strategies69 8 months ago
This movie is action packed!! A must- movie!! Viva Riva is awesome!!
PrestonPresscott 8 months ago
It's a wonderful movie, true story from the authors life. very thoughtful.
kwarner1000 8 months ago
Every Day I'm Hustlin!!!
tommekk18 8 months ago
it's looks AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kontokosa 8 months ago
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tommekk18 8 months ago
This looks sick cant wait to go see it this Saturday!! You should check the extensive trailer here on their website!!
loverboyhk 8 months ago
congo kinshasa oyyeeeeeeeee i love it
congo243lady 8 months ago 6
good luck bruv...tym for DRC 2 shine in every single aspects...inch'allah ekosimba
MrTempsreel 8 months ago 4
This trailer is pretty good, but it doesn’t do the film any justice. Djo Munga did some art studies in college and the cinematography really captivates in this film. There’s top notch acting, heart pounding action scenes, and an overall deep story.
jasonmontes1492 8 months ago
Could people just stop comparing this to American flicks, it's disrespectful and rude, in case your mama didn't tell you. Most Europeans and Americans just need to grow some politeness, and if they can grow a brain with it that would be great too. I was born and grew up in Europe and had to move to the so called third world as soon as I could... I just can't stand the ignorant arrogance towards the rest of the world. No wonder most asians I have come across call white people stupid!
heucatia 8 months ago
would all the people looking at the trailer stop saying horrible things and the comment about people in these countries should stop having kids you guys are ignorant people your computer or phone or laptop has something from Congo ok you eurpean countries and americans you guys make africa corrupt to steal are minerals so before you go slagging people off what comes out you country and who are you are you going to make it better just cause you live in a wealthy country dosent give you the righ
chicazulu 8 months ago 29
wooooooow some people should watch the way they talk about my country congo all the way
GHOSTREET2KGODFREY 8 months ago 2
@GHOSTREET2KGODFREY Don't mind their ignorance... it's common knowledge that some people simply lack the cognition. I do believe that a lot of people from Europe and the US still do descent from the neanderthals... anthropologists are starting to discover that these weren't completely extinct after all, and you know what? All it takes to confirm that these days is to log on and read a few comments on youtube. Science! Signed: mixed raced person. I belong to both worlds so I can say it, tk u!
heucatia 8 months ago
Spill.com!!!
masonkim7 8 months ago 2
represent kinshasa were i come from!!!
heygirl1888 8 months ago
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This is a very good movie. They exaggerated with the sex but the plot was very good.
rudyslim 8 months ago
Il a l'air trop bien! c quand il sort en france mamééééé
miiyellah 8 months ago
Deadlyful u really are a deadly fool!
mochax 9 months ago
This guys have soo many kids because they can't afford condoms or birth control pils
DeadlyFul1 9 months ago
@DeadlyFul1 you may be right, and you guys have fewer kids as you use birth control and you got money for that. But either way immorality is a fcuk'd up vice
kevinMutiso 8 months ago
@DeadlyFul1 so is spelled with one o and pills has two l's, so dont worry about us here in africa we will sort out our children rather worry about your shitty spelling DICK!
bustifurr 5 months ago
Well the movie looks terrible, but they are telling the truth, there are places in the world that America and the UK has left with no gas.
SirGecko01 9 months ago
the trailer voice is horrible in this clip
Othelie 9 months ago 2
Why is everyone talking about the Dominican Republic when all the actors are speaking French?
jamesburdette 9 months ago
@jamesburdette Because they speak french in the Dominican Republic.
FacelessOnlooker 9 months ago
@FacelessOnlooker no they don't, they speak spanish. The ones who don't speak Haitian Creole. But almost the entire country speaks spanish.
jamesburdette 9 months ago
@jamesburdette this movie was made in the democratic republic of congo
palankee 9 months ago
@jamesburdette It was a french colony a few decades ago, so french is still an official language there
maishi 9 months ago
@maishi I don't think it was ever a french colony. It was colonized by the Spanish, and at times was occupied by the Haitians. But the official language has always been spanish. And there are some who speak Haitian Creole as leftover from their occupation of the DR. But even though creole is close to french it isn't french.
jamesburdette 9 months ago
@jamesburdette it's sad to say, but i was thinking of a west african country while i typed that TT_TT, and you are right.
Oh well, I'm from east africa and we speak british english as a former colony and a commonwealth country
I don't think i should use that excuse since i haven't visited since elementary school...
maishi 9 months ago
@jamesburdette actually, they are speaking Lingala which is a local language mostly spoken in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was a Belgian Colony. The Congolese people have never spoken Creole or Spanish and they were never occupied by the French or the Haitians...
Wawaamu1 8 months ago
@jamesburdette actually, they are speaking Lingala which is a local language mostly spoken in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was a Belgian Colony. The Congolese people have never spoken Creole or Spanish and they were never occupied by the French or the Haitians...
Wawaamu1 8 months ago
@Wawaamu1. I'm guessing you didn't read the history of comments leading up to the last one I made. I was never talking about the DRC. I was, however, talking about the DR.
jamesburdette 8 months ago
@jamesburdette
Whoawww where the fuck u got that history lesson from?? Like seriously? I can't even begin to correct u!lol
Seems like u got ur countries mixed.
annak01 8 months ago
@annak01 I got that history from a textbook. You can't begin to correct me because there is nothing to correct. The DR was colonized by the Spanish and at times occupied by the Haitians. Look it up.
jamesburdette 8 months ago
@jamesburdette stop reading text books find the truth
oworigt 8 months ago
@jamesburdette Ur wrong bro. Dr Congo were colonizes by the belgiums. look it up aiight
slickizz 8 months ago
@slickizz Ur right bro that the DRC was colonized by the "belgians" not "belgiums". But I was never talking about the DRC. I was talking about the DR (Dominican Republic).
jamesburdette 8 months ago
I would watch this and how did Jamaica come into this?
JamaicanBarbieGal 9 months ago
Maybe i'll see on demand
jomirife 9 months ago
The white and black struggle on youtube......
you guys need a new hobbie
i'm arabic by the way ^^
al7osani1 9 months ago 17
People in these poor countries should stop having kids.
SweetCash33 9 months ago
the music is funny.
eliasz0002 9 months ago
looks allright but the people who make these trailers need to learn that the commentary effect just puts people off...sounds really tacky.
moneymayhem2000 9 months ago
should be re-named "Nigger Wars"
Casso14894 9 months ago
trailer looks awe full ..!!!
tamimsekhavat 9 months ago
two thumbs down
rytis1 9 months ago
Lol...so shit!
elmateeeo 9 months ago
It's that retarded OFFSCREEN VOICE that fucks it up.
Who keeps giving this guy jobs?
Go back to your early 90's, DOUCHEBAG!
PFplusW 9 months ago
This movie looks like the black version of scarface
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PlowThrough8 9 months ago
@PlowThrough8 Jamaicans but still black, whats your problem dude?
FelixH7 9 months ago
@FelixH7 because that was such a pompous comparrison, and blacks are african american, jamaicans are carribeans. so your wrong too.
PlowThrough8 9 months ago
@PlowThrough8 If I say black I'm talking about skin color, not about origin. Even if I were talking about origin, carribeans are still "black", they were brought there from africa to work as slaves.
And i dont see how this trailer is related to jamaica, they always say "Kinshasa", an buddy, that's in Congo,Africa ;)
FelixH7 9 months ago
@PlowThrough8 Man whats your problem? In the video description its stated thats in DRC, democratic republic of congo, so wtf are jamaicans doing there in your phantasy??? Are you messing up videos?
And the movie is realy like a black Version of Scarface, even the thing with the women. I bet the main protagoinist, Riva will take Azor's place after a while, just like in Scarface.
theRevolutionBegin 9 months ago
@theRevolutionBegin Ok you can like tha movie whatev. dominican i didnt, they got great baseball players, hanley, reyes, ortiz and so on, jamaica has usain bolt. but this is nothing like scarface. did u even watch it? scarface my fav movie dawg. u bent. this movie they dont leave there home country. tony is a cocaine murderin cowboy from cuba makin tha world his in tha US In tha early 80's. this film is about dominicans & gasoline. whats your problem?
PlowThrough8 9 months ago
@Endymionus
If it was a Black version of Scarface it would look better than this wad of shit.
This looks like something Tyler Perry would like to portray about his Blacks!
Isaiasm2006 9 months ago
to describe this movie /watch?v=X2-qB-HvjHE (not mine/spam, etc)
elvin2130 9 months ago
this just looks terrible.
L0zz0 9 months ago 41
@L0zz0 what the fuck huh fuck you man
chicazulu 8 months ago
@L0zz0 Only if you have bad taste.
DBCOOPER888 8 months ago
the american voice over is crap - see the movie - its fresh - africa is happening and we don't need your permission
flashthehousecat 7 months ago
@flashthehousecat Yep, africa is the happening place today. All the cool kids hang out there. You betcha. "Freshest" place I've ever seen. By far! /sarcasim
L0zz0 7 months ago
@L0zz0 Have you ever left your suburban enclave of nice neat America? Have you? You gotta open your mind brother - here in Africa we are actually doing something to survive the havoc that the colonialists and global capitalists have wreaked on this planet - yes it is fresh and yes there are 'cool kids' - I am sure you have absolutely no idea about what's happening here or else you wouldn't spend so much time slagging us off - or maybe it's about some other insecurity? whats your beef?
flashthehousecat 7 months ago
@flashthehousecat I have no beef with Africa. I do find it amusing that so many people attack someone who simply provides their assessment of a movie based on it's trailer. An assessment that appears to be one of popular belief. I'm actually what people would call a world traveler and don't live in "nice neat America" as you put it. My beef, if I do have one, is with short sighted simpletons such as yourself who assume everyone on the internet must be from America.
L0zz0 7 months ago
@flashthehousecat Ran out of space. As far as your "colonialists and global capitalists" comment goes, is this the new crux for Africa? I can't keep track of how many excuses they use or what the new ones are as to why they can't unite or why they keep killing off each other. The majority of the rest of the world has. So I guess it's all those colonialists and global capitalists that are to blame. (BTW, I'm assuming you meant only the white versions of these and not the black counterparts.
L0zz0 7 months ago
@L0zz0 I dont have time to tit for tat but just to fill you in the DRC is considered the richest coutry in the worl in regards mineral deposits. During King Leipold of belgiums reign the population was reduced by half through genocide and land grabs. After a troubled history when it finaly gained democracy under Patrice Lumumba that great leader was assassinated in a CIA backed plot. the wars that have ravaged DRC in the last decade have claimed over 5 million lives.
flashthehousecat 7 months ago
@flashthehousecat And the CIA is to be blamed for the wars? Anything to not take responsibility for your own peoples actions and lack of actions right? (By "your" I'm talking about the Congo, not you specifically.) The DRC is not considered the richest country due to it's mineral deposits. That information is outdated due to new discoveries in another country last year. I'll let you do the digging to figure out which, but it's very interesting which it is.
L0zz0 7 months ago
@flashthehousecat i saw the Lumumba, you forgot to mention his own people also betrayed him. I don't think all of Congo's problems can only be blamed on Colonizers and western anymore.
soursop 2 months ago
@soursop The Senate committee, headed by the late Frank Church (D-Idaho), finally decided there was "a reasonable inference" that Eisenhower had authorized Lumumba's assassination, but stopped short of a firm finding. The CIA acted as though the president had given the go-ahead, sending one of its scientists to the Congo in September 1960 with a vial of deadly poison that could be injected into something Lumumba might eat.
charbonelle 2 months ago
@charbonelle (continued from the previous post) "In high quarters here, it is the clear-cut conclusion that if [Lumumba] continues to hold high office, the inevitable result will at best be chaos and at worst pave the way to Communist takeover. . . . His removal must be an urgent and prime objective," Dulles cabled the CIA station chief in the Congo on Aug. 26, 1960.
charbonelle 2 months ago
@charbonelle Last year, the BBC ran two documentaries on the tragic history of this central African state. Who Killed Lumumba?Belgian military chiefs made nightly visits to Mobutu, then head of the army, and President Kasavubu, to plot Lumumba's downfall. Colonel Louis Maliere spoke of the millions of francs he brought over for this purpose. The plot to kill Lumumba was called “Operation Barracuda” and was run by the Belgian Minister for African Affairs, Count d'Aspremont.
charbonelle 2 months ago
@charbonelle The Belgium government ordered Kasavubu to sack Lumumba, who turned to the new parliament and won two votes of confidence. Mobutu then lead a coup d'état and Lumumba was placed under house arrest, from which he escaped only to be captured by troops loyal to Mobutu. Count d'Aspremont ordered him be taken to Katanga province and was shot by a firing squad commanded by Belgian officers.The Belgian commander police forceGerard Soete chopped up the corpses before dissolving them in acid.
charbonelle 2 months ago
@charbonelle The central mystery of Lumumba's death remains. Why was he killed? Why was the might of at least three Western powers bent on eliminating this one man—even as he was held prisoner, reviled and beaten by his captors and was without military or political power. Some say the answer is that he posed a threat to the West because he was a committed Pan-Africanist, and since his death he has certainly taken on the status of a Pan-African martyr.
THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES............
charbonelle 2 months ago
@L0zz0 fuck you!
dkthg 6 months ago
@dkthg no thanks, I don't want your STDs
L0zz0 6 months ago
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@L0zz0 Don't hate. You know you want my H-I-Viva!
dkthg 6 months ago
@L0zz0 it is terrible! I just saw it. Wasted opportunity by makers of movie to do something groundbreaking, wasted my movie watching time. The only good actor was the Angolan bad-guy Cesar.
soursop 2 months ago
@soursop That's exactly what I expect. It promises to much without being about to deliver.
L0zz0 2 months ago
i think the title of the film should have been named 'Viva La Riva' instead.
aidenmccloskey 9 months ago
@aidenmccloskey
That wouldn't have made much sense...
prox1mately 9 months ago
@prox1mately yes it would. in translation (depending on the language and culture) it means 'Long Live Riva.'
aidenmccloskey 9 months ago
@aidenmccloskey
But adding "La" would refer to "Riva" as an item instead of a person right? I'm not too sure since it's been a while since my last spanish class but that's what I remember. :-/
prox1mately 9 months ago
@MrJollePolle 720p is better....
evwarsh 9 months ago
@evwarsh this is a fact
JacoblCanada 9 months ago
240p is awesome!
MrJollePolle 9 months ago
Yeah!!!
MrJollePolle 9 months ago