Somewhere Down The Line

You can tell when a movie has great intentions but is simply unable to execute it from any angle, this movie is a prime example of such.

“Somewhere down the line” is the story of a couple unable to birth their own child who eventually resort to surrogacy. Thankfully, this goes well and they end up with a beautiful baby girl who they revolve their world around. Twenty-one years later, the girl meets someone that raises questions in everyone’s mind.

The movie starts off with an interestingly new and fresh angle with the entire surrogacy twist but not long enough into this it resorts back into the common nollywood storyline. It takes this fresh story about surrogacy and ends it in the exact same manner that every other adoption movie has ended.

And yet this is not the most aggravating part of the movie…

The movie stars Tamara Eteimo in a double role. Her character, in itself, involves a certain degree of artificiality – especially considering that the lines from the soundtrack to her life literally read “everything is pinky… cos I’m Pinky”. Hence, I guess the fake feeling that comes off during Tamara’s performance should be excused because it is required of the character yet this is quite difficult to ignore. Tamara did seem much more comfortable in the local role than in the posh one. The local Tamara brought more conviction than the posh one ever could.

The movie is shrouded in an obvious low-budget air. From the lighting, to the audio, to the set-up of the rap competition, the extras and everything in between the movie reeks of “hurriedly put together” and “low budget”. The only one intuitive thing that catches anyone’s attention during the movie is the landline handle that Beth (posh Tamara) insists on answering all her calls with.

The coupling of Yemi Blaq and Bukky Wright in this movie was a tad awkward to watch initially but as the movie progresses you find other things that peeve you way more. Thereby, making it difficult to focus on something as little as an awkward pairing.

One of the biggest pitfalls of the entire movie is the production quality. The story had hope until it started winding down the above mentioned nollywood pitfalls. Suffice to say that taking the story on a different direction would definitely have added more to the movie. The story in itself though was easy to follow.