Viva Riva!
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  • Summary: Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo with a major score: a fortune in hijacked petrol. With wads of cash and all out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by the beautiful nightclub siren Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes Riva's Angolan crime lord ex-boss relentlessly seeking the return of a certain stolen shipment of gasoline. Director Djo Tunda Wa Munga's Kinshasa is a seductively vibrant, lawless, fuel-starved sprawl of shantytowns, gated villas, bordellos and nightclubs and Riva is its perfect embodiment. (Music Box Films)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 10 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    Aug 17, 2011
    88
    A slick, exciting, well-made crime thriller, dripping with atmosphere.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Abele
    Jun 9, 2011
    80
    As gut-punch storytelling, Viva Riva! delivers much, not the least of which is the promise of an exciting new filmmaking talent.
  3. Empire
    Reviewed by: Philip Wilding
    Jun 20, 2011
    60
    On the basis of this expertly engineered crime thriller Djo Munga is a director going places.
  4. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Ilya Tovbis
    Jun 9, 2011
    38
    The near-slapstick escapes sit uneasily with the raw bits of very adult sex and cringe-worthy close-ups of brutality that dominate the rest of the proceedings.

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