In Her Shoes
Oge Okoye, Rukky Sanda, Yemi Blaq, Ik Ogbonna, Thelma O'khaz, Venita Akpofure, Chinyere Nwabueze, Daniel Lloyd,
A raucous village girl is overjoyed when a sophisticated city man who has just returned from America takes interest in her, however he is warned by elders in the village that she is a troublemaker and so she decides to prove to him that she is worth marrying.
"In order to get to where you want to get to, you have to be like what you want to be when you get where you want to get to"
Rukky Sanda
Rukky Sanda
Rukky Sanda
2013
Nice story
Anticlimactic end
Shockingly, Rukky Sanda’s “In Her Shoes” is not a half bad movie. The movie tells the story of two friends from the same village. One gets married to a man from the city and brings her friend over to stay with her.
Of course, after a synopsis like that you know exactly where the movie is headed, no secrets there, but trust me to still be the one hoping that the expected doesn’t end up happening.
The strength of this movie was the leads. The pairing of Yemi Blaq and Oge Okoye was fantastic. I was simply delighted to see Oge Okoye in a different role. In a normal non-lady-gaga-ish role. And she held her own, she was beyond convincing, and it just reminds you of why Ms. Okoye is a big deal. Yemi Blaq was effortless as always with his impeccable grammar and inimitable style.
Rukky Sanda was once again in this movie doing the superwoman thing being that directed the movie, wrote the story, wrote the screenplay, produced it, executive produced it and then acted in it. So you can’t blame me for being surprised that most of it turned out ok. As regards her acting in this role, it’d be quite unfair for me to not give her a little credit for trying but throughout the movie I just kept thinking how much more amazing the character would have turned out to be if the role had been given to someone more capable: Ini Edo at the least, and Mercy Johnson at best. I get excited alone at the thought of Mercy as ‘Funke’, the character would have had a lot more life to it, and would have been able to get more, as per emotions, out of the audience.
IK Ogbonna, thankfully, only had a small role in this movie and between pouting here and there, strutting there and here, and making sure he was camera ready, he didn’t seem to be doing much more as usual.
The movie did have an anti-climactic end but I’d take that over a stretched ending any day. The audio has many moments were the music is louder than the dialogue which becomes very annoying. Amazing costumes and video, the movie has amazing color if only irokotv would fix their video so that one could actually appreciate it.
I will admit that the directing could have been better, the story telling definitely has room for improvement but in the end the movie is an easy watch, it is easy to relate to, and simply the joy of watching Oge Okoye in this role adds plenty to the film.
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That ending was pointless!!! I liked the movie until that ending, it’s like the movie went no where.
My sentiments exactly. The movie was quite predictable. Good story that has been done in other movies before, but Oge was definitely able to bring some spice to it.
havent watched this..dont plan on watching it…oge has so much potential or had kwa,to grow and challenge herself seeing her still in the same leagues as her juniors who came after her is dishearting..still a fan, but she really needs an ije or ties that bind..roles that push you futher..or else……….waiting for that role bcos i believe she can do it.. aim high oge..
OK, I’ll watch this one soon. I remember Iroko sent an email recently about it.
Awesome review! For once I agree with everything! Lol!
My issue with the movie is the end. I keep hoping that Funke would repent and get married to Ben.
Nevertheless, the end could have been better, seriously!