Gold Diggin

If you prepare a certain recipe over and over again, no matter how terrible you were initially, I find it difficult to believe that your final product after numerous attempts can manage to be as bad as or even worse than the initial product. So imagine what it must feel like for me watching Rukky Sanda productions.

Gold Digging is about a girl searching for her dream man. According to her, all she has ever known was wealth and men who take care of their women. Therefore, she finds it hard to even comprehend working for a living. For her, her dream man must be a celebrity and must be rich.

The performances in this movie for the most part – exempting only one – was nothing to write home about. Nobody was exerting any kind of effort to even look like they were pretending to act. I argue that this is because quite frankly there is hardly anything to act – how does one infuse mind into a mindless matter. The story has no coordination if you can even call it a story, the end is brainless and completely unrealistic that even I who finds a way to excuse everything can’t excuse this. If a romance was supposed to be in this movie somewhere then I missed that signal… and possibly every other signal in the movie. Half of me expected the movie to end half way through because someone on set must by then have realized that this was going nowhere.

The movie stars Rukky Sanda, as does every other Rukky Sanda movie, but the surprise here is the co-star – Yvonne Nelson. Not that Yvonne Nelson is the most sought after actress or one of beyond impeccable taste in script or incredibly unmatched talent or anything like that. However, seeing Rukky Sanda movie just seems like a new ‘low’. And this isn’t even one of Rukky’s better movies – then arises the question of which of Ms. Sanda’s movies is a ‘better’ movie – but some actually have a storyline, this one doesn’t. In many-a-scene, you sit there and wonder “there is no way that Yvonne is not mentally asking herself how she got herself into this right now”.

The movie also stars Alexx Ekubo and for the first time ever I was elated to see him on screen. Alexx was honestly the single interesting or nearly entertaining factor of this movie. And this is not just because of the character he played, but the fact that he actually tried in this movie – something that almost every other actor in this movie seemed not to be doing – made him worth watching and his scenes worth looking forward to.

If there’s anyway to summarize the experience of watching this movie it’s with this: after less than five minutes of the movie I knew how the movie was going to end, and half way through the movie I still didn’t understand why anyone thought the movie was worth making.