It's a Cinderella story! yes... so why would anyone want to sit through yet another Cinderella story? Because the music grips you... because Mercy is an amazing actress (because we can't remember what Mercy looked like when she was skinny)... because it's [...]
The original intent of the 'story' criterion of critic is to answer the question "can I sit another person down and tell them this story... if I can, will they be entertained?" If yes, definitely then the story is a go. And for this movie? Heck yeah, you [...]
To a certain extent, it was an arguably entertaining concept but for the most part it just seemed ridiculous. I mean, in what country (even if it's an African country) does the VP leave her post to go and start fighting with a citizen over a piece of [...]
-Story: [3 out of 5] I know some people might consider it a ‘not-so-entertaining’ story, but for some reason I was entertained by the movie from start to finish. Honestly, after seeing Prince David on the cast line up, I didn’t think [...]
I started watching this movie and felt, "wait a minute, didn't we already have a Nigerian version of this?" So after a couple minutes of cracking my head, I realize the movie I have in mind: "Last Weekend (Who Killed Pa Reuben?)".
As the movie is drawing to a close, I'm sitting there thinking, "what the heck does the title have to do with the movie?" but the film makers do not leave you hanging. All is explained in the end and it wasn't anything like what I would have predicted.
In true Frank Rajah fashion, this movie is a rip of a Bollywood movie but the problem here now is that I don't even remember what the Bollywood movie was called (and google is not helping me). So after about an hour of fruitless googling, binging and [...]