The military intervenes by bombing the schoolhouse with a helicopter, forcing the Tiger Mafia to evacuate. Although the latter temporarily manages to fight the men off, he is eventually overwhelmed. Richard commands Puffs' new henchmen to attack Bruce as a test of their combat skills. As Puffs wreaks havoc on Kampala with the helicopter, Bruce is captured by the Tiger Mafia as he attempts to enter the base. He orders his subordinate Puffs to use a stolen helicopter to bomb Kampala as a diversion, while the Mafia prepares to defend the schoolhouse. Richard eavesdrops on the meeting using the phone of a turncoat soldier, and devises a plan to foil the attack. A new military commander is chosen to replace Alex, and he devises a plan to attack a schoolhouse that serves as the Mafia's base. The UPDF, now deprived of a leader, struggles to formulate a plan for capturing Richard. After recalling her past, she agrees to take Bruce to the base of the Tiger Mafia. After sleeping in a tree for the night, he encounters and bonds with a woman named Ritah, one of Richard's wives who suffered amnesia after being shot by her husband. Bruce asks the master to help him on his quest for vengeance, but the latter declines. Bruce meets up at a local shaolin temple and battles with its martial artists in order to meet the temple's master. Unexpectedly, Alex is found dead that night, with the murderer having escaped.Ĭaptain Alex's brother, a Ugandan shaolin monk named Bruce U arrives at Kampala in search of the murderer. Richard becomes antagonized, and sends a spy to seduce the Captain so that the Mafia can capture him later.
Alex sets up camp in the village of Wakaliga, and manages to capture Richard's brother during a commando operation. PlotĬaptain Alex, one of the most decorated officers in the Uganda People's Defence Force, is sent out to capture the crime boss Richard and his Tiger Mafia, a criminal organization that controls the drug trade of the city of Kampala. The original version of the film was lost due to power outages and "strained conditions" according to Nabwana, while the surviving version of Who Killed Captain Alex? released online includes commentary from an English-speaking " Video Joker" that includes running gags about the characters. A trailer for the film was uploaded to YouTube in January 2010, and has been viewed over 6.9 million times as of January 2022. The film gained viral notoriety for being a no-budget action film, produced on a reported budget of under $200 although producer Alan Hofmanis later stated that the production value was in fact $85. Who Killed Captain Alex? is a 2010 Ugandan action comedy film written, produced, and directed by Nabwana Isaac Geoffrey Godfrey (IGG), by Wakaliwood, an ultra low-budget studio in Kampala, Uganda.