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Of all the gangsters around, Jangho (Hanks Anuku) is the toughest,
having his hands in assassinations, robbery, smuggling and kidnappings.
But having Chief Wokoma (Pete Edochie), a powerful politician whose
opponents Jangho kills every now andagain, and the police commissioner
(Ashley Nirosu) behind him, Jangho doesn't have to fear the long arm of
the law - heck, he even tries to rob the church of the local bishop (Bruno
Iwouha).
Only at home, Jangho behaves very different, he is a loving father to
his son and lets himself being commandeered around by his girlfriend Rita
(Nkiru Sylvanus), whom he plans to marry eventually.
Then things go wrong for Jangho: Not only does every church in the
country refuse to marry him to Rita (because of what he did to the
Bishop), after some crooked deal, he also finds out that Chief Wokoma
tries to cheat him out of a substantial sum of money. The two men fall
out, and Jangho tries to threaten Wokoma, but Wokoma, a very powerful man,
only laughs at his threats.
Jangho wants to get back at him and plans to steal the dead body of
Chief Wokoma's father, but when Doc Ahmadi (Paul Emma) refuses to hand the
body over, he instead kidnaps Ahmadi's son. And when Ahmadi's colleague
Doc Martin (Linc Edochie) addresses the affair on public TV, he kidnaps
Martin's daughter too ... but the girl can escape and report the affair
to the police - and since Jangho and Chief Wokoma are now adversaries,
Wokoma does not only protect Jangho no longer, he also sees to it that
Jangho's friend the commissioner is fired ... Things are starting to get
hot for Jangho, especially when the new, law-abiding commissioner
(A.Buffallo) promises to hunt Jangho down ...
Then handing over Ahmadi's son goes wrong as well when the police set a
trap for Jangho. Jangho can escape the trap, but now he has to shoot the
boy and go into hiding ...
And hide he does, at local chief Omoha's (Justice Esiri) place, one of
the chiefs he still has in his hand because of several crimes ordered by
him - but even Omoha wants to set Jangho up and eventually tries to kill
Jangho's right hand man Joe (Collins Onwochei) - unsuccessfully though,
and now Jangho takes over Omoha's place as chief and makes Omoha a mere
servant.
Jangho uses Omoha to set up a trap to lure chief Wokoma to his place,
and once Wokoma is here he tries to force him to hand over the money
Wokoma has cheated him out of ... but somehow, Wokoma manages to tell the
commissioner the place where he's held, and Jangho and company have to
make good their escape - and kill Wokoma of course ...
During all that time, Rita has continued preparing her wedding to
Jangho, and Jangho has promised her not to miss it, no matter what. The
police commissioner though has since suspected that the girl might be the
key to Jangho and had her followed for quite some time.
At Jangho's wedding to Rita, the police arrives seemingly out of
nowhere, and it all culminates in a shoot-out, that ends with the arrest
of Jangho.
Ultimately, Jangho and his closest associates all end in front of a
firing squad ...
Like most Nigerian direct-to-video productions, this was obviously made
on the cheap, and the film does feature less action and more talk - in bad
sound-quality - than you would expect from your average gangster pic. But that doesn't mean that King
of the Jungle is necessarily a bad film, it features some really nice ideas (like
the tough guy growing all soft over his girlfriend, and the girlfriend
believing in the power of love no matter what, or like the corrupt society
that suddenly wants the criminal who was aklways in their services dead) and
it keeps things going at a
reasonable pace.
Don't expect GoodFellas, maybe, but as a
B-gangster-pic King
of the Jungle is totally ok.
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