Misplaced Desires

Why must all good things come to an end? Or in this case? Why must things that start out good suddenly loose focus and turn into a disaster?

Misplaced Desires is the story of two couples played by Alexx Ekubo & Dabby Chimere and IK Ogbonna & Juliet Mborukwe. Dabby’s husband wants her to loose weight and go back to the way she looked before she had a baby and Ik’s wife is frustrated with being a housewife since she was 17 and having to deal with a workaholic husband.

The movie started off on the right track with a brilliant comedic performance from Alexx who holds his scenes and possesses the entire story so much so that whenever the story deviated from him you couldn’t wait for him to return. This was all until about 30 minutes into the movie at which point it seems as though they switched story writers. The story then proceeds to make a dramatic swerve away from the comedy that worked to a more overused traditional nollywood formula with vengeance, adultery and all the orisirisi that one would expect from an Asaba made production starring Patience Ozokwor and Yul Edochie.

It also doesn’t help has other flaws aside from the storyline such as the poor lighting, bad audio quality, mediocre acting from anyone other than the four main leads and the most nonsensical dialogues. Many of these, however, could have been ignored if the original story was followed through. This switch in storyline also brought with it a loss in momentum. The story began to drag and drag for the next hour and ten minutes then came the most anticlimactic conflict resolution we’ve seen this year not to mention the obvious gap in the storyline that Alexx doesn’t recognize a house he was in less than a week prior.

The performances from the major four were satisfactory, it was nothing outstanding but it was not terrible. Alexx, Ik, and Juliet have become so much better actors overtime and it’s glaringly obvious in this movie. Alexx has definitely found his niche with comedy and I can honestly say that I would watch an entire movie (well one parter) for Alexx Ekubo.