Kosiso (Voice of the Poor)

There’s just something about these family movies. They have a way of keeping you seated for the length of the movie – when done right – even though you knew at the start of the movie exactly how it was going to end, and for some of them you even know what’s going to happen in between just by looking at the title.

Kosiso is fortunately or unfortunately, one of those movies. It is the story of two brother’s and their respective homes with one brother having success in his family and businesses, with his children excelling academically and otherwise and a beautiful marriage. On the other hand, there is the other brother who seems to run into one trouble and then the next, whose children look for the slightest pretext to break into a fight and who sees his household as “good-for-nothing”.

Obviously, what you expect in this sort of movie happens. One party gets jealous and goes diabolic – or whatever the equivalent may be – and things “fall apart” before they fall together. That is a given. This is a family move. It, therefore, goes without saying that this movie is predictable to a fault and unabashedly unoriginal, but it is entertaining enough.

Ini Edo as Kosiso was believable and able to hold our attention through the 4 hour length of the movie. From her joyful successes to her sorrowful ordeals. Yul Edochie as the boyfriend did not have many scenes except to swoop in at the end and ‘save the day’.

Not much can be said about this movie without saying too much but I cannot go without mentioning that it had a particularly dissatisfying ending. Unlike most other movies of this nature that end with the “secret culprit” revealing all his woes and diabolic means, this movie lacks that particular satisfaction. Also, at the time the protagonist is happy again, we have been waiting for it – with little to no sympathy for her – for a little too long.

There are too many loose ends not tied together by the end of the movie, add that to the unsatisfactory ending, the numerous unnecessary scenes, not too mention some highly improbable and ridiculous graphics and kosiso might be a bit of a tedious movie. The movie could have been cut into one solid 2hr movie by deleting a couple terribly lip-synced scenes and redundant scenes.