X-Class

-Originality: [2 out of 5] The storyline in itself is not exactly ingenious but it’s still considerably original (at least when you compare it to your average ‘royal’ movie). Regardless, the motifs of gossipping, backstabbing, resorting to ‘whorishness’ is something we’ve seen too many times, and honestly speaking, is becoming a bit annoying

-Predictability: [2 out of 5] The end I’d imagined for this movie is that she finds Christ, goes to church one sunday and meets one Brother Sunday who tells her that ‘God told him that she would be his wife’, they get married and so on and so forth. Obviously, the movie did not end like that (which I thank God for) but it still followed a cliched path and had an almost cliched ending.

-Directing/Editing: [2 out of 5] Props to Ikechukwu Onyeka, my respect for him has been steadily increasing since he did “Mr and Mrs“. I think the movie had good cinematography and I loved that it was in two parts but the ridiculous thing about the movie comes from the casting. After seeing the graduation scene with which the movie opened, I was of the impression that she was graduating from college. As the movie progressed, however, I was made to realize that she had only graduated from High School. Now, whose genius idea was it to cast JJ Bunny and the lace front crew as high school graduates… therefore, teenagers? Or people in their very very early 20s at worst? In which world does that make sense? Who are you trying to deceive? After I realized that they were supposed to be teenagers, the movie just stopped making sense to me. It was extremely unrealistic and a bit insulting to think anyone would believe that they were teenagers. My second problem is that the igbo was not subtitled.

-Acting quality: [1 out of 5] Like most other JJ Bunny movies, the cast of this movie was supplemented by a couple extended guest appearances by John, Christy, Ngozi and Anthony (I say ‘Guest Appearances’ because I refuse to refer to the little scenes the actors acted in this movie as actually acting in the movie). I won’t go in again about how much I don’t think JJ can act (because I am beginning to sound like a broken record). Let’s just say that the movie would be that much less watchable without the guest appearances.

-Setting: [3 out of 5] Loved the settings, mostly on point. Shot mostly in Houston with some scenes in Nigeria.

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

-Video Quality: [4 out of 5] Well done

-Soundtrack: [2 out of 5] Loved the songs but they were not originals for the movie. Which would be fine if the actual singer was credited somewhere within the movie or at the closing credits. Songs used include: Vitamin C’s ‘Graduation’, P-Square’s “Possibility” and 2face’s “Outside”

-Musical Score: [2 out of 5] What I’m beginning to notice on many low budget movies nowadays is that they seem to think that it’s okay to use the score by Enya from the movie ‘Braveheart’ as their own movie’s musical score. Don’t get me wrong it sounds great but that’s theft (or isn’t it?)