Tunnel
Femi Jacobs, Waje Iruobe, Nse Ikpe-Etim, Patrick Doyle, Femi Akeredolu, Lepacious Bose, Adejumoke Atunde
Hard lessons are learned about the virtue of hope in the face of adversity as a pastor recounts a traumatic period in his life when his Good Samaritan gesture earns him a false indictment of manslaughter, among other hapless occurrences.
"God has stopped picking my calls"
Stanlee Ohikhuare
Adejumoke Atunde, Grace Edwin-Okon, Morenike Erinle
Adejumoke Atunde
2013
Nice Storyline
Quite Underwhelming
Don’t we all just love Christian movies and all the hidden (and sometimes not-so-hidden) morals that it tries to teach us after every other scene. It should make it harder to review the movies, I think. You know, because they are so “well meaning” and you should only ever say good things? Well I don’t think I care so here’s the review.
In case it wasn’t already obvious, Tunnel is yet another Zion movie. However, it is an undercover Zion movie. It does not present in the trailer and synopsis as Jesus-Hallelujah-Give your life to Christ. Instead it approaches you as yet another Nollywood movie – there’s become a huge amount of these “undercover Zion movies (remember “the visitors“) that I am now beginning to think audiences might just be anti-Zion movies so they have to mask it.
Tunnel tells the story of a modern day pastor who happened to be in a bit of financial problem up until this ‘bit of financial problem’ cascades and all results in a series of unfortunate events. So, yes, it is yet again another ‘series of unfortunate events’ type movies but instead of the comedy approach like “Phone Swap” it has a moralistic approach. And fortunately it worked.
The pastor is played by the dynamic Femi Jacobs. As Pastor Lade, he is placed in many compromising situations and tasked with convincing the audience every step of the way, and I must say, Jacobs doesn’t break character. He is believable in duress, he is believable broken and also believable as the flirtatious husband to Waje.
Speaking of which, this movie also serves as Waje’s acting debut. Waje’s performance is definitely one of the best from any crossover singer in Nollywood thus far. From her first scene she was relentless without any of the initial forced stylings of someone who came in with past glory from another industry.
However, the real star of the movie is God. Yes you read right, God! Patrick Doyle plays this role in the movie with effortlessness and ease that can only be gained from years of experience.
But the movie was not all grace and glitter, the technical quality is a bit underwhelming and the audio quality does tend to fluctuate but that’s not the main issue. For the most part, the movie does not encourage you to continue watching. It’s one of those movies where if you have to pause it for any reason, odds are you will never return to finish it again.
Hi please cld u tell me the name of the song and artist on this movie tunnel. Song sang at the end of movie. Thank u.