Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

rowmorg Djo Munga has made a magnificent movie on a shoestring in Kinshasa. All hail to him! His hero, Riva of the title (Patsha Bay) is a daring, foolhardy type like all heroes, and he has no fear at all of stealing from gangster Azor (Diplome Amekindra) his gorgeous girl-friend, Nora, played by the ravishing Manie Malone. He has one more truckload of fuel in a city having a fuel crisis. Cesar (Hoji Fortuna) is also after it, as are several others, including a lady military officer (La Commandante: Marlene Longange). Even Riva's parents get a look-in. Everybody appears sooner or later in this wonderful picture. The great thing is that when somebody swings a punch, someone falls, hurt. And, by the same token, when somebody shoots a gun, people fall, but they do get up again in many cases. These are real people involved in a fiction film. It's a great work of art and I strongly recommend it.

eckersley-stephen Saw this purely by accident when woken in the early hours. Glad I was woken because this unexpectedly turned out to be one the best films I've seen for a while. The whole ambiance of the movie seems to capture the ugly underworld chaos of Kinshasa and the blatant racial tensions between the Angolans and Congolese. The opportunity for making money in Riva's world is all that matters and lives are cheap demonstrated with gritty realism where gangsters are out-gangstered (even by the authorities). Even the church wants a piece of the action (surprise, surprise!)Nice main sub-plot concerning Nora and her relationships with both her husband and Riva. The full on chase by Riva to get Nora as his woman is a little implausible at times but works well and gets across his obsession with the "woman of his dreams". All in all a truly riveting film about a subject and location rarely depicted.

sigrid-ekman I've heard people criticize this movie for not showing "a true picture" of the DR Congo, but please, as if any Hollywood action ever gave a realistic picture of USA?Viva Riva is a funny and action filled movie, it is not your average sad deep heart wrenching story about poor Africans, but a movie that was created purely for your entertainment. It just happen to be so that this gangster movie is set in the DRC. It is a gangster thriller filled with humour at its best with an African flavor to it which makes it a nice breath of fresh air. I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end and I look forward to seeing more movies by Djo Munga in the future.

filmalamosa All but a couple of reviewers must have watched a different film. The netflix reviews were much more accurate: Grade B disposable gangster flick. Slick filming but repulsive scenery.I watched to see what Kinshasa looked like 40 years after I left. If you don't fix the roads pick up garbage nor maintain anything for 40 years you get the right picture.This is an idiotic grade B film for mass consumption in Africa... it is not material I would want to represent my country in film festivals. A lot of the actors may have been European Africans (the ones that spoke flawless French)...DO NOT RECOMMEND