Blue Blood
Yemi Blaq, Ini Edo, Nse Ikpe-Etim, Tonto Dikeh, Eve Esin, Mary Uranta, Junior Pope, Jibola Dabor, Collette Orji, Andy Ike
Princess Oluchi(Ini Edo) is the new girl on campus. On her first day at the university, she arrives with all her royal guards, in her royal attire and with her royal vehicles. She sways into campus majestically and attempts to sit in on a lecture to which she is already 30 minutes late to when she is disillusioned by the professor. "This is a Government University" and nobody cares who you are. Princess Oluchi's arrogance is such that she even went to the extent of slapping an innocent young man, Onye(Yemi Blaq), for supposedly sitting on her sit in the Library. Reality begins to check with her after she meets Nkem(Tonto Dikeh) who is also a princess and a student at the university. Nkem begins to teach her the importance of blending in and encourages her to sober down. Eventually, Princess Oluchi starts getting close to Onye and this is when he tells her his story. The story about his ex-wife (turned campus ashawo), Chimamanda(Nse Ikpe-Etim), and his son in the village.
The sequel to Blue Blood is called "Never to Return". The movie has four parts namely, "Blue Blood Part 1 and 2" then "Never to Return Part 1 and 2".
Okey Zubelu Okoh
Hyacinth Onukwu, Uche Nancy
2010
-Story: [0 out of 5] I was honestly beginning to wonder about the utter ridiculousness of this storyline. I was. Until I realized it was an Uche Nancy movie. At that point, the fact that the movie made absolutely no sense, began to make sense to me. Afterall, it’s an Uche Nancy movie. The storyline (if I can call it that) was too all over the place for my liking. First of all it’s Ini Edo and her outlandish behavior, then Ini Edo in love with Yemi Blaq, then Yemi Blaq narrating the story of his past, then Nse Ikpe-Etim her past and her present, then Nse Ikpe-Etim living with an old man. Honestly! Was all that necessary? Pick a story… any story… and tell only that story. Do like Tchidi Chikere and make a two part movie if you know that what you have to say is not that long. Needless to say that this movie would have fared way better without the useless sequel.
-Originality: [0 out of 5] The runs girl aspect has been done before and so has the over-milked royalty storyline. Everything from campus romance to village love seems a bit repetitive but this movie is still original in its confusion
-Predictability: [0 out of 5] Indeed had one of the most predictable/stereotyped endings for a movie of this nature.
-Directing/Production: [0 out of 5] First of all, the movie is in four parts (aka too long). Secondly, the last two parts did not even need to be made (arguably none of this movie needed to have been made). Many overly prolonged scenes, especially the party scenes… uhm… thanks but no thanks. Needless to mention the miscasting (na me you wan come convince say Yemi Blaq and Nse are uni students? Abegi… what’s next? Casting Mama G as Mike Ezuruonye’s younger sister in your next movie)
-Acting quality: [3 out of 5] The cast of this movie tells me one thing: i.e the fact that they all agreed to do this crappy movie must mean that the script was amazing and something went wrong during production. Everyone from Nse to Ini to Yemi as we all know are incredible actors (even Tonto Dikeh). Extras were annoying and from time to time some of the main actors were equally annoying (no need to name names, just insert any of the other names I haven’t already mentioned here)
-Setting: [2 out of 5] Ok
-Costume/Make-Up: [3 out of 5] Hmm hmm… all the royal attire… arguably unnecessary. Still pretty regardless.
-Props and Graphics: [3 out of 5] Ok
-Video Quality: [2 out of 5] Ok
-Audio Quality [1 out of 5] Up and down in many scenes
-Soundtrack: [2 out of 5] Ok
-Musical Score: [3 out of 5] Ok
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I just must say I love the Nigerian-ness of the names. Now you have to agree our movies just love importing names as if they’ve run out of Naija names but the first thing that grabbed me was the authentic names, and it is funny to note that the famous people with these names in real life are pretty awesome:
Oluchi–real life supermodel
Onye–it just sounds so sexy
Nkem–reminds me of those English books we read, I think they had orange covers, back in primary school and of course the actor Nkem Owoh
Chimamanda–I love her name and it is nice to see such names in Naija films.
From the names of the characters to the actors in this film, I agree that this must have been one awesome script but the execution (according to your review) begs different. Hopefully, the director learns a thing or two and tries again–of course keeping the originality, the Naija-ness of it all.
Ha! One can only hope that they’d look away from the financial aspect long enough to note the complaints of the viewers and see how they can improve their production as a whole.
But all that one na hope