Forbidden Choice

Forbidden Choice is like everything you expected and nothing you ever imagined. It is the tale of a poor young man with a sister in the hospital with chronic kidney disease and in dire need of a transplant. When I said “poor young man” I did not mean it in the cutesy sense, the character played by Mike Ezuruonye is actually struggling from meal to meal. He has a supportive girlfriend played by Oge Okoye who is too good to be true but still everything a man could wish for.

On the other hand there is the family of the rich chief who seems to have a neuro disorder that has somehow led to erectile dysfunction. His sex starved wife is at the brink of her patience and unable to take it anymore so much so that she threatens to step out of the marriage. The husband and wife sit and decide on a middle ground that is conducive to both of them.

In reality, the storyline is a load of hoopla… or so it seems, because we never really know what is happening behind closed doors in other people’s lives. So even if there is a tint of possibility based on that assumption, the movie is still filled with a lot of convenient coincidences. Like how convenient that the English-language-assassinating boy that is hitting on the pretty college girlfriend of our poor young man is also the son of the rich chief who has hired poor young man to satisfy his sex craved wife… phew (feel free to read that over to catch on).

The movie has a truck load of convenient coincidences like this that we will let fly because it is a movie, however, towards the end of the movie the situations become a little too opportunistic for anyone to overlook. In the last ten minutes of the movie, it just falls into the land of silly opportunistic nonsense. Everything is on fast forward, and quite frankly, a tad difficult to believe.

But for most people, the story is not the problem because even though it is very opportunistic and logically improbable for the most part it is still entertaining in the way that we like our home videos to be. Regardless of its two part-ology, it still manages to hold the viewers attention through and through.

However, that’s not the main issue with this movie. The number one problem with this movie is in the acting and starting with Charles Billion. From the multiple continuous assassinations of the English language that he performed throughout this movie, to the blatant lack of any type of charm for his supposedly swagger-full character, it was nearly impossible to not cringe every minute he was on screen. Now, I have seen Charles Billion in other productions and movies and he has never been great but he has never been this exceptionally terrible. Regardless, his character was still endearing and the terrible performance did not motivate me to hit exit on my screen.

Then there were others…. The terrible acting did not begin and end with Charles Billion. Throughout the movie, I was playing a mental game of assassination. I was just assassinating the characters one after the other for terrible acting. At the end, only Clarion Chukwura was left standing.

Clarion takes the cake in this movie for her rendition of a seductress. It was both amusing and convincing at the same time. Hate her character, love her character, it’s impossible to deny the effortlessness of her performance.

All in all forbidden choice is definitely watchable from start to finish just don’t try to infuse any logic into it.