Mandinga

Seriously????? this is the worst movie I've seen in a while. The Int shots were too dark needed some more light. The EXT handheld and dolly shots were too fast and made me dizzy to watch. The spatial transitions of the scene were ridiculous they were wearing same clothing and at one point the old dude had a beard then later the lighting was super bright but I couldn't tell that anything had changed over time, except his beard, later he lost his hair but same clothes, same walk, same vocal pattern. His so called Gf was sleeping with the so called son of a Mandinga who died. This movie is not even about Mandinga's at all. It's not even about slavery. Its basically soft pornSo in my opinion the Adr is terrible. these are not africans they are like some mixed Italian/Ethiopian people who do not look like Africans at all. they are totally different culture which makes this movie a fake. YOu can tell that whoever produced it doesn't know anything. The ADR was off track and unauthentic. YOu could tell they were not in Louisiana probably in Malta,Italy or someplace in Spain, but not in swamp country Lousianaeveryone and their dog knows that Louisiana still has plantations. LOL on this movie not one time do we even see a royalty free ext shot of a plantation. Also major, major, super major important part of story was when the mandinga woman has the master's child. OK guess what??? we never even see the baby. spatial transition to like 30 years later and he doesn't even look black and he is all talking badly about slaves. was that comedy?i think this is like a student film that went wrong. NO... students would have known how to do this film. It's lik really terrible do not waste 1.99 like I did... but if you need to laugh or show this to film students who are in their 20's then its ok how not to shoot a film, lighting issues, etc.I hate this movie and I think that it could have been a ok story but the director basically failed as a director and as a story teller. The DP failed and camera operator??? what I could have shot a better movie on my Iphone. LOltotal WASTE of money and time.

Nice movie

OK

Bad dubbing, bad acting, no character developement? It just seemed that they just went to a park and got some African-American people and a couple of europeans and made this. It was very cheap and very poor and to be honest that wasnt the reason I bought it! I wanted to see an interpretation of basically what everyone knows what was going on then in "those times", but I didnt see that. I saw a very idiotic piece of trash that I wish I could get my $2.00 back because I rented this off of Amazons direct video rental sight(which I must say is amazing and serves a need for those people who dont want to shell out 10 bucks for a crappy video) Anyway if you want to see a movie that deals with the controversy of this era I suggest watch "Goodbye Uncle Tom" made by some more idiot Italian directors the only diffrence is they spent more money on the set designs and story developement. Roots this could never be, In the trash can burnt is what it should be!!

This has to be one of the stupidest movies I've ever seen. Imagine a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western take on life in the pre-civil-war deep South. A load of slaves are taken to some (unnamed) southern plantation, where they are beaten, abused, but remarkably healthy and sexually alluring. Add one perverse FEMALE slave owner (looking much like Gina Lolabrigitta on crack) with a yen for the legendary black sexuality; her elder brother prefers nubile slave girls; there is a mixed race baby in the bunch. The dialogue is halting and self-conscious. The sets appear to have been somewhere around Sicily or Abbruzia. The whole thing is justified by a brief and stilted homily in the final scene about "the end of slavery" when it seemed all the time the characters were having a helluva good time WITH slaves.Ok, rent the movie if you like, but have lots of beer, Fritos, and Dip on hand as a consolation for wasting another 120 minutes of your life.

it was ok I was just expecting more I love black history

Come on really, what did you expect Its soft porn people .Its a classic soft porn movie no really sex ,no real plot just ....Well just a some what erotic but not to deep some what funny . Its even voice over dubbed.Yes this is not Roots but again it could be a some what fun erotic movie if you allow your self to not expect too much.I did not take this movie too serous and why would you? Its funny because its so bad and they tried to make a real movie and its old .They dont make them like this any more .Steamy ,sexy ,twisted ,erotic ,but vary light on all subjects.Really light!

I grew up in an era where films like this played with Kung Fu movies. DAMN it's wickedly sick.

If you are a fan of the Hollywood produced slave exploiters such as "Slaves" (1969), "Mandingo" (1975) and "Drum" (1976) then this Italian rip-off potboiler will be of interest. But be warned the 'digital remastering' takes some believing. I'd rate the transfer quality no better than a cheap VHS tape. "Mandinga" started life as a Jess Franco movie that somehow or another got waylaid during production and ended up being reshot with a different cast, crew and director on the back of the same outfit's, "Pleasure Plantation" (starring Malisa Longo and also available on an American DVD). The storylines of both films are more or less identical and possibly owe more to Russ Meyer's, "Black Snake" (1973) than the Kyle Onstott novels. One can only hope that some enterprising soul digitally cleans up "Mandinga" and "Pleasure Plantation" and releases them as a double-bill BluRay. I wouldn't hold your breath though.