Moving Party

-Originality: [0 out of 5] This is such a typical Uche Nancy movie. I feel like with all her past movies (‘the models‘, ‘fulton mansion‘), she is simply using film making as an avenue to market her wares. A typical Uche Nancy movie, like this one, has no tangible storyline, no lesson to be learned, many overly prolonged scenes, many catfights, many bickerings, and usually some form of fashion show or the other (see… the models and fulton mansion again).

-Predictability: [1 out of 5] Did I see the end coming? No! Not really I didn’t predict that that angle would be attached to the story at the end but when it was around the corner it became obvious that something like that would happen and the movie would have an ending like the one it did. Regardless, there were still some loose ends at the end of the movie *SPOILER* No one explains to the viewers why Jibola Dabor and his cohorts were killing the prostitutes in the first place?

-Directing/Editing: [1 out of 5] Many many overly prolonged scenes. The movie did not need to be that long. All the fighting and bickering scenes in this movie really did get on my nerves. No apparent cinematography. In fact, in some scenes, I can hear the director yelling out directions from behind the scenes. The additional music in this movie was not attributed at the end (i.e Wizkid’s ‘love my baby’ and D’banj’s ‘Oliver Twist’)

-Acting quality: [2 out of 5] Many extras couldn’t act. Mercy Johnson gave an impressive performance as Nicole the lesbian. Queen Nwokoye. I saw this movie after I had just recently seen Chika Ike alongside Mercy in the movie, “Swing of Emotions”, and that made it easier for me to appreciate Queen’s worth as an actress. I’d take 100 Queen’s over half a Chika any day. Walter Anga, for the first time I actually liked Walter on screen. He fit very well into his role and owned it. Ese Brodricks might still need some acting classes. Jibola Dabor and Chacha in my opinion need to start picking their scripts more carefully before they fall too deep into the class of stereotyped actors and they become verbs of their own (i.e people start saying things like “the actress in that film was just doing the Chacha Eke for 4 whole hours”)

-Setting: [1 out of 5] Setting was ok except for the carnival scene. It was supposed to be a nationally important carnival yet there were only about seven people present. Loads and Loads of empty seats. Why didn’t they just at least get random folks to fill the seats?

-Costume/Make-Up: [2 out of 5] Most of the girls’ outfits reeked of tackiness. I do commend Uche for the effort she put into the costumes for the carnival but the girls still looked tacky (all the way from Chacha’s fish skirt to Mercy’s peacock hat/hair band). One thing that made absolutely no sense to me in the first few minutes of the movie was the scene in which Mercy’s father was cutting her hair off. He is supposed to be punishing her by shaving off her hair to detract men when all he was really doing was chopping off her weave (and the said weave gan sef was tacky as heck so in my opinion, he was doing her a favor). Question! What was up with all of Mercy’s costumes? Why was she wearing leg warmers on her arms and all those multi-colored tights? Gay pride???

-Video Quality: [3 out of 5] Ok

-Soundtrack: [2 out of 5] ok

-Musical Score: [3 out of 5] Nicely done