Royal Deal

-Story: [1.5 out of 5] The succession from part 2 to part 3 for me was a bit of a jump, there was a lack of flow and the actions were disjointed. From part 1 to part 2, I understood what was happening then all of a sudden in part 3 it was as though they skipped months ahead and did not show us the scenes where some main events happened, we had to deduce it from conversations. *SPOILERS* For instance, How did they suddenly realize Mercy was at fault? How did she shoo Clems from the village in the first instance?. Regardless, I thought the story was… a bit entertaining

-Originality: [1 out of 5] This is not the first movie (and will probably not be the last movie) where people are fighting for the crown (see every Pete Edochie movie before this). However, I do admit that the snake aspect is a bit new. After Princess Rihanna though, I do hope to stop seeing any more snake movies, period. There were some parts in this movie where I wanted to fast forward because it was getting annoying

-Predictability: [1 out of 5] I’d like to say that this  movie was not predictable, because from part 1 to 2 honestly, it wasn’t. I would never have guessed who was behind the snake appearances. But then the soundtrack told me who it was thereby making it very very predictable indeed. I feel like the scenes in part 3 and 4 where out of order, if this was supposed to add to tension or remove from predictability, I don’t know but one thing I know is that it was frustrating

-Directing/Editing: [2 out of 5] A lot of things were annoying about this movie, annoying characters (i.e Esther Audu’s character, see ‘Acting Quality’), annoying scenes (scenes were not in order in part 3 & 4), annoying soundtrack (see ‘Soundtrack’ for the soundtrack lyrics) and annoying spelling (in the listing of cast and crew some names were misspelled). Before I finish this section, I’d like to ask all Nigerian screenwriters a question (especially the ones that write for Jim Iyke), why is it that every idiot that supposedly ‘comes back from America’ must always say things like “Damn!” or “Shit men”. I mean, I live in America and I don’t know a single human being that uses the words “shit mehn” together in a sentence. I leave you with a line from this movie.