Just in Case
Tonto Dikeh, Kenneth Okonkwo, Ngozi Ezeonu, Chinyere Nwabueze, Artus Frank
Just in Case parts 1-3.
-Story: [2 out of 5] Personally, I did not think the story was that fantastic, I kept falling asleep and waking up again through the entire thing. Then I’d have to rewind to the last point I watched, only for me to fall asleep again and do it all over (but then again, I was watching this at 1am so… I won’t put ALL the blame on the story)
-Originality: [0.5 out of 5] I am very certain that I have seen another Nigerian movie where the mother and daughter fell for the same man.
-Predictability: [0 out of 5] Yes! Yes! Yes! Once the story actually begins, any Tom Dick and Harry (who has Nollywood History) can predict the end.
-Directing/Editing: [3 out of 5] No glaring faults but I was wondering… What’s up with the Closed captioning/subtitles. I mean it was really only necessary in about two scenes where this guy spoke igbo but asides from that it wasn’t. And it frustrated me a lot because some times there were grammatical errors in the subtitles and then problem with the mechanics… I mean they wouldn’t capitalize their Is or the period would be in the wrong spot. Don’t get me wrong I’m not taking points off for capitalizing Is and misplacing periods that’s just my own pet peeve but I definitely took the point off for all the gbagauns in the subtitles. If you’re going to put subtitles then put them properly.
-Acting Quality: [1 out of 5] Only three people could act in this movie and they are, as you can guess, Tonto, Kenneth and Ngozi… everyone else should please quit acting. The Chinyere lady wasn’t that bad of an actress, so I presume she can act. There was a guest appearance by Artus Frank and considering the amount of people who couldn’t act in this movie, boy was I glad to see him. I like how Nigerian movies are embracing the concept of celebrity cameos and guest appearances within their movies i.e Desmond Elliot in Bursting out, and Artus Frank in this movie. Guest appearances have the ability to help sell a movie if used right. I mean… don’t have a guest appearance by someone no one wants to see… for instance “Guest Appearance: Lilian Bach” God Forbid.
-Settings and Costumes: [2 out of 5] Asides from the fact that all the people who couldn’t act, couldn’t dress either with their tacky weaves and aba made shoes, the setting and costumes were on point.
-Video and Audio Quality [3 out of 5] Great.
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Bloody Night
But how many other people were really in this movie?
This is where an igbo man would say ‘e juo dolly’ (literal meaning of which I am completely unaware)
But uh… that’s a good question lol