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Just perfect...

i must have seen a different film!!

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Africa Addio(Also known as Goodbye Africa or Africa: Blood and Guts) is one of the most interesting documentaries I have ever seen. It portrays Africa in the 1960's compared to the Africa today. This movie was created by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi(Remember Mondo Cane?), who spent three years documenting the most shocking, disturbing, surprising, and even strange events ever caught on camera. From the lynching of Muslims at Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Taganikya(now Tanzania) to poachers(white and black)running wild to slaughter animals as they please. From the execution of a criminal(ate a guy's liver and burned 27 kids alive) by a mercenary to the trials of criminals involved during the Mau Mau Uprising(Including flashbacks of the crimes taken place(One included dead baboons on nooses and then the cows with severed tendons by Jomo Kanari). And from the tragic story of a baby zebra who lost its mother to the mercenaries battling against the Simba Rebels at the Congo(Which also included the gruesome aftermath of the massacre at Stanleyville(Now known as Kisangani)). While human and animal deaths are grotesque and not for the faint of heart, there were historical events(The Zanzibar and Mau Mau incidents) that have taken place. Oh, did I mention the part where Jacopetti(Yes, that was him on camera when he and Prosperi were taken out of the car at Dar Es Salaam. I think. LOL) and Prosperi nearly got iced? This movie was so reckless, so intriguing, so dangerous that is sparked a firestorm of controversy. You simply can't find any documentary like Africa Addio anywhere else!

This documentary was three years in the making and is not for the weak of heart or stomach. You may find yourself so disgusted you'll stop watching; or your curiosity will have your total attention to this offering from the directors of MONDO CANE. Africa in the 1960s was not only black and white, but also blood red. This film features glimpses of atrocities most only read about and things definitely hidden from tourists. There is scenes of violent unrest in the Congo; the final days of British rule in Kenya; the slaughter and displacement of the Watusi tribe; the grisly look at poaching and slaughter of once protected iconic members of the African animal kingdom; as well as executions of political rivals. You may be in the mood for a stiff drink; I doubt you will have an appetite.

Africa Addio contains some really strong scenes of animal cruelty and human death. However the editing, lack of storyline and historical facts in general disappointed me. If the directors had taken their time to research the events they portrait, the movie would have come out much better and informative. Some scenes are beautifully shot and made, but others seems added to just to shock and disturb the viewer. Generally the whole "Mondo" genre needs much more depth and facts, instead of the pure intention to shock the audience.Africa Addio is a movie that could have been so much more, but lands as an average gore filled documentary which display the lack of insight of the directors. Filming animals getting killed for sports, people executed, stacks of severed hands, rotten corpses along the road and mass graves for the sheer shock value seems uninspiring and sometimes plain dumb. The creators of Africa Addio invented the Mondogenre - but at the same time, they hit a new rock bottom for the whole documentary genre. It could have been so much more, but ended up real sad. I have seen the "Directors Cut" of the movie - which according to the directors should be "more political, historical and informative", all themes lack, and a movie which could have been highly educational end up as a sad shocker. Mondo Addio.

Sent to Africa to make the next Mondo Cane movie the film makers found themselves in the middle of several revolutions. What they would film would form the basis of a damning attack on everyone, both black and white, involved in the shift in power on the Dark Continent.I've watched the three versions of this film and I'm a fan of all of them. Interestingly the one I like the least is the original cut of the film which has several snide comments and re-dubbed voices that make the film truly rude and cruel for no good reason. The original cut goes out of its way to have a holier than thou view that is missing from both of the English cuts. The original cut also has several more minutes of animal cruelty that is completely uncalled for.This film ran into serious trouble upon its original release because charges were brought, though later found to be false, that the film makers had paid some of the soldiers to kill some one so that they could film it. (this charge would form the basis for The Wild Eye, a fictional film about the making of a mondo movie made by another Mondo Cane director) Considering all of the the death and destruction in this film I find it hard to believe that anyone would have had to have been paid to kill anyone.Yes, its a tough film, but it leaves no one with clean hands, even the film makers.See this film. It will make you think.