Love Shooters

With a title like that, I would not blame anyone for overlooking this movie. But if you are anything like me and occasionally crave that pure unadulterated village storylines, then maybe you might want to reconsider.

Love Shooter is the story of Ogechukwu and Mmesoma, two sisters (actually cousins) who have an amazing bond and love for each other. One day Ogechukwu, played by Evan Okoro, meets and falls instantly in love with Obiego, played by Emeka Enyiocha. She returns home and tells her ‘sister’ all about this man that has stolen her heart. The next day she introduces her sister Mmeso, played by Chacha Eke to Obiego and unfortunately for Oge, Obiego falls instantly in love with Chacha instead. And then the drama begins.

In the face of all this instant love, you might wonder why the movie is not called ‘Instant Love’ instead of Love Shooters, but all that happens in the latter half. One can argue that the movie actually consists of two movies joined together in two parts. However, unlike most other movies with that exact trait, there is actually a connection and flow between both parts. That is to say that the effects of one would have been made less without the other.

Like in the case of Emeka Ike, I find that there is a strong solid line dividing Emeka Enyiocha’s fans: it’s either you like him or you don’t. There is hardly any in between for most so allow me to be the exception. I have no strong set feelings about Enyiocha, however I will admit that seeing him on screen after such a long time brought some sense of nostalgia that undeniably added to the overall effect of the movie.

Personally, the star of this movie was Emeka Odimgbe who played Ikenna. Now of course he is no Brad Pitt in this movie but it is always exciting seeing a new face act so naturally in front of the camera. Having said that, all other performers in this movie did a good job and a special kudos to Evan Okoro who plays the antagonist in this movie. By the end of the movie, I wished leprosy and ebola on her so I assume she did her job well.

Having said all that, I must now mention the flaws. The video quality of this movie looks like they imported it straight from 2001 for this special occasion. The directing was ironically without direction, sometimes panning here other times zooming there with no apparent logic behind it. Yes, the movie was predictable and yes, it was arguably unoriginal but the people watching this movie – aka folks like myself – are not watching for newness but a glimpse of the old. Of course that doesn’t justify the horrendous video quality still.