A Wish

Posted February 2, 2013 by Nollywood REinvented in Comedy

Rating

Story

40%

Originality

10%

Predictability

10%

Directing/Production

60%

Acting

40%

Setting

80%

Costume/Make-Up

60%

Props & Graphics

60%

Video Quality

80%

Audio Quality

Soundtrack

30%

Musical Score

40%

Total Score

43%

43/ 100

NR Review

Genre: Comedy

Director: Elvis Chuks

Producer: Elvis Chuks

Screnplay: Rita C. Onwurah

Year: 2012

Synopsis: A single mother who is petty trader with no opportunity of education, having ONE WISH to see her child go to school and explore the opportunities she never had, but faith struck, she had to struggle to achieve her dreams against all odds and finding out she has few years to live after being diagnosed of Cancer

Parts/Divisions: The movie "A Wish" has only one part: A wish part one

Cast: Funke Akindele, Patience Ozokwor, Hafeez Oyetoro, Ik Ogbonna, Bishop Ime Umoh, Helen Paul

POSITIVES:

Has a message it intends to put out there

NEGATIVES:

Starts off a bit slow

Excerpt

If I could only tell you one thing right off the bat, it’d be “don’t believe the hype”. Did you read the synopsis? That is what I call a false-hope deliverer in its truest form…. and that was the synopsis attached with the cinema release of this movie. To be honest, the movie is not half bad but it’s not as good as the synopsis makes it out to be. It’s a really good home video and a mediocre cinematic release.

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-Story: [2 out of 5]

It’s a fair enough storyline. Had it’s funny moments but I didn’t find it that amusing

-Originality: [0.5 out of 5]

You can argue its originality and I think that’s all you can really do. Because there is not much originality asides from the cancer aspect (which in itself is probably not even that original)

-Predictability: [0.5 out of 5]

Comme ci, comme ca

-Directing/Editing: [3 out of 5]

Directing was fair enough. Cinematography was ok. Subtitles a very very very little bit inconsistent. Asides from that, everything was on point.

-Acting quality: [2 out of 5]

I’ve been a fan of Helen Paul’s since I mistakenly stumbled on a couple of her videos on YouTube about 4-5 months ago; I didn’t watch this movie because of her though. To be honest, I didn’t know she was in the movie until the opening credits started (to be fair, didn’t really know about this movie up until earlier this week ). However, Helen Paul did an amazing job with her role, especially for a first time actress. Her and her voice impressions are signature so I guess we could all guess that she was a decent actress.

I think real acting prowess shows forth when the actor is required to show emotion. Most of the movie was an array of comedic attempts that were really not that funny but the only scene that required Helen to show emotion was the part where she goes

“Umoh! Love me! Don’t touch my breast”

As regards everyone else: Happy to see Funke out of the cliche’d Jenifa stereotype. Love Bishop, even though he acts the same thing over and over again. Mama G could only add to the cast line up (and to be honest, she was the only reason I endured the first couple slow scenes in the beginning).

The new boy/man/guy, from “Lovelorn“… what can I say… his acting is a work in progress. Was not entirely annoying and seems to be getting better. As a side note though, it’s easier to note the progress in an actor when they’re not acting beside Rukky Sanda.

-Setting: [4 out of 5]

Well done

-Costume/Make-Up: [3 out of 5]

Fair

-Props and Graphics: [3 out of 5]

Not bad

-Video Quality: [4 out of 5]

Love the color, but randomly blurs (I blame that bit on irokotv)

-Audio Quality [0 out of 5]

Very terribly inconsistent audio

-Soundtrack: [1.5 out of 5]

Fair