Nurses Cult

God love us, I was so bored during this film. It wasn’t like bad but it wasn’t good. It floundered in mediocrity. However it had hints of brilliance in it but they were few and far between. This storyline has been done over and over and over again and none of them have done it to the standards that it deserves. The message of the film was really obvious but just once I would like to see the serious problem of child trafficking done well.

The synopsis was misleading as it presented it as some sort of Airplane babes but in with nurses and I was fully prepared to watch that and by the time I realised the duplicity I was halfway through and I figured that since I had already wasted time on it I might as well finish it. While it went down the prostitution route, it was done very briefly and it quickly moved into a different type of movie that I wouldn’t necessarily have choose to watch-rituals (I think, it was not explicitly said) and political intrigue. It did do well to show how people double-cross each other and how easily people are drawn into temptations because of money.  Nevertheless the story took too long to illustrate and the climax of the film was un-understandably drawn out.

Some scenes were long, some were pointless, some were pointlessly long and some were pointless and long. The ones that were fine were just fine. That is all. The people involved in the production of the film had good intentions but ….it wasn’t a good film.

The acting wasn’t bad, it wasn’t great but I think this was because the movie did not call for it. It didn’t need high powered roles, but I have to give kudos to the nurses-who held their own as newcomers and I hope to see them in more challenging roles. Ngozi Ezeonu, I have noticed has been recently taking more challenging roles that do not fit with the motherly ones she is known, she was okay in the movie but I wanted more. I don’t blame her; I blame the script that had so many antagonists that was hard for her to stand out. The extras were fine and for once, the police officers were not wooden and stiff.

The soundtrack was not good at all, it was the instrumental of ‘Oyibo man I go chop your dollar’, and the use of it was just so odd to me. The props were there…just there but the use of blood was hilarious to me because there was so much of it and it looked so fake.

In conclusion, the film was not as engaging as it could have been, it wasn’t as interesting as it could have been, and it wasn’t as poignant as it could have been. So while I am not discouraging you from seeing this film, only watch when you are extremely bored or have it playing in the background while you do other more interesting things. Or you know, just watch an interesting film.