The Women

There is a thing to be said about watching movies that were made over a year ago in your current day – expectations change. As time goes by, you see better and the things that would generally have bowled you over once upon a time can barely elicit a two finger clap anymore. Such is the case for The Women.

Blessing Egbe’s The Women is the story of four female middle aged friends who bare secrets about each other and each other’s respective marriages, and who congregate in a resort one weekend on the occasion of one of their birthdays. And then, as one of Chiwetalu Agu’s many character’s would say, the wind blew and exposed the fowl’s rear end.

If there was one thing done best in this movie, it was managing to keep the audience watching from scene to scene even when the fabric of the storyline wasn’t particularly novel. I mean think about it, this is neither the first nor the last time we will see a group of females who claim to be friends but turn around to backbite each other – it’s a concept as old as Girl’s cot and as recent as every other Ebonylife Films release. Neither is it the first time we are seeing a group of couples vacation to a resort and expose each other’s secret. What really lifts this over the average is writing that eliminates the extraneous and/or the boring, and actors that do a decent job at convincing. All the leads in this movie are easy to watch and believable in their roles, and it makes the experience of watching The Women that much more entertaining.

Having said all that though, the movie is not without its flaws. The most obvious of these flaws is that it is still a very simple and basic storyline that is easily forgettable – so skip it or watch it, either way you won’t be missing much. The audio of the movie was the next major qualm. The dubbing of the dialogues seemed very obvious and overt in nearly all the scenes, where the animations and intonations in the voice seemed removed from the lip movements of the characters on screen.

None of these take away from the experience of watching The Women though. If you are looking for light and funny, then you won’t be missing the mark with this one.