Nerve-racking Senegalese action film about a bunch of Americans in Dakar waking up with bombs on their chests.
Two Americans wake up in Senegal with bombs strapped to their chests and ten hours to figure out what’s going on. A mysterious voice on the phone gives them assignments and has the two unwittingly cause chaos all over Dakar.
Congolese director and screenwriter Jean Luc Herbulot returns with Zero, a stylish anti-colonialist action film. You might remember Herbulot from his gory hit Saloum (2021), in which a group of mercenaries encounters supernatural forces in the Saloum delta. Like before, Herbulot wrote the screenplay for Zero himself, this time in collaboration with Hus Miller, who also plays the lead. The film is filled with nerve-racking and often hilarious action sequences on the crowded streets and colourful beaches of Dakar. Thematically, it deals with Dakar’s increasing anti-Western sentiments, providing the film with a radical political undercurrent.
