Complicated

-Originality: [0 out of 5] Royal conspiracy movies are a bit overdone in my opinion. We need to find a new subject because honestly most rich modern day folk don’t harbor a nagging desire to become the king of some village or town somewhere in Africa. Not much of a life aspiration you’d agree

-Predictability: [1 out of 5] Eh! If I bothered to look, I bet I’d have seen it coming

-Directing/Editing: [1 out of 5] This is an Ugezu J. Ugezu movie and I’m beginning to feel like the guy is just incapable of making movies that are not ridiculously long and make you want to pull out your hair in frustration. The movie had many many many flashbacks and flashforwards/flashpresents and there was no progression so you really couldn’t tell which flashing was going on at any given time (unless ofcourse you saw a character that had died 2 scenes ago come back alive in the next scene). Was not a fan of the continuity! I’ve definitely seen better and there were a couple really annoying overly prolonged scenes scattered within the movie. And uhm… it made no sense to me that Mike Ezuruonye throws a gun into a river looking stream and then the next day the inspectors come and tell me that they have recovered the gun but not only that, that they found Mike’s fingerprint on the gun. First of all… na how them take search that entire deep and wide river that is filled with fish and orisiri in less than 24 hours and recover one tiny little black gun? Abegi… and not only that! What are the odds that a gun that has been under water for 24 hours would still have fingerprints on it????

-Acting quality: [1 out of 5] There were a total of 5 actual actors in this movie. One of them, Eve Esin, barely had that many scenes. Two of them, Jibola Dabor and Joyce Kalu, died after the first three scenes. Which leaves us with two… Tonto Dikeh and Mike Ezuruonye. Asides from that the movie was filled with unrecognizable names (who at most times would be better off in a different career path). To state it kindly, the extras sucked. Most frequent faces in the movie were manageable. For some reason, I’m entirely repulsed by the fact that Ugezu has decided to pull a Tchidi Chikere and start acting in the movies he directs (no matter how repulsed I am by this though, it is nothing compared to my repulsion towards P.A.M – Prince David Osei, Artus Frank, Martha Ankomah). I honestly believe that it’s about that time that Eve Esin stopped being so cliched with her role choice. Nowadays, everytime I see her on screen I’m 100% certain that she’s playing the role of a ‘bad gyal’ (and she never proves me wrong). It’s time she started selecting her roles carefully before she begins to sound like this guy I had seen in the documentary “Welcome to Nollywood” who said that his first acting gig was in 1992 and in that movie he had played the role of a detective. Since then he had acted in about 100 movies and 95 of them were detective roles. Spice it up or get lost in the mix. I can’t talk about all the actors in this movie without talking about Inspector Linda, real name Favor Precious (aka the lady with the huge black dot on the center of her nose). I tried and I tried and I tried to stop noticing it but everytime she came on screen it was like… WHOA! And it’s really hard to not point this thing out especially since my girl no come sabi act. Every line she has she is forming non-existent fun-e (aka fake accent). They asked the babe what her name is, she said “I’m inspecteur Lindeh”. Abegi, carry comot.

-Setting: [3 out of 5] Ok

-Costume/Make-Up: [2 out of 5] Most costumes in this movie were adequate except the queen’s outfits. If I said that they looked like they were stitched together from curtains borrowed from the 90s… it would be an insult to said curtains.

-Video Quality: [3 out of 5] Ok

-Soundtrack: [1 out of 5] The soundtrack at the end of the movie was… I actually liked it however it had nothing to do with the movie. The movie is about a royal assassination and the soundtrack is about lost love. Singing “Nwakaego o gini se re mu na gi?” (Translation: Nwakaego what is it that caused trouble in our relationship?)

-Musical Score: [3 out of 5] Ok