Starring: Ikay Ogbonna, Mimi Orjiekwe, Oma Iyasara, Monique Samuel, Tissy Nnachi

Synopsis:

A wealthy, married, man goes out of his way to procure a loan for his “side chick” only for her to run off with the money.

Review:

The movie opens up to an unhappy marriage between Alex and Cassie (Ikay Ogbonna and Mimi Orjiekwe). Alex strayed from the marriage and used the excuse of “overtime at the office” in order to spend time with “the other woman”, Chloe (Oma Iyasara). 

Chloe provided the passion that ceased to exist in Alex’s marriage. When she mentioned that she wanted to open a boutique, Alex gladly funded her. She later convinced him to lend her more money by promising to double his money in six months. Alex forged documents to get her the money she needed and soon after, Chloe was nowhere to be found. 

Cassie picked up on the affair when she picked up Alex’s cell phone. Little did he know, Cassie had an agenda too.  

Let’s Talk. An infidelity movie. Yes, another one. It’s a misguided drama about passion but the context is really about a man’s desire for sex and a woman’s agenda for money. Isn’t that true to life? Men want sex and women want money? 

In this case, Alex was a wealthy man who had two women. No surprise there. What’s strange is that when the side chick needed a loan, Alex forged bank documents to get it for her. REALLY?? I mean, who does that? Why was that even necessary? He was supposed to be a rich man!! 

Once again, we have a movie that defies logic. Why on earth would a man do that for the sidepiece? Especially when he had already given her a huge sum of money! Talk about the politics of sex. A woman gives her body and the man ultimately pays for it. 

The next thing we know, the bank was foreclosing on all of Alex’s property, including the home he lived in. The story didn’t delve into how that bank came to its conclusions but if Alex was found out for forgery then why didn’t he go to jail? 

For this story to be remotely believable there needed to be some heated and sizzling passion (“Endless Passion”) between Alex and the “other woman.” There wasn’t. They were just two actors with no chemistry, going through the motions for the scene. 

Another pinch was the missing scene where Alex should have suspected that his wife knew he was having an affair. He forgot his phone at home and when he later checked it he would have seen that his side chick texted him and then put two and two together. 

For the most part, the movie was lifeless. Having to watch the scenes with Alex and his wife was enough to make the homicidal suicidal. The movie didn’t disclose why their marriage went south which made their relationship completely uninteresting. And then the filmmakers had the nerve to include those long stretches of scenes with no dialogue. Ugh… 

The only positive note about the movie was the female characters involvement because they gave the storyline a level of  unpredictability, but the story execution was still poor. 

Performances? Let me say this: just because an actor is able to show emotion doesn’t mean that he/she is connected to the character. There’s living the character and then there’s acting the character. There’s transforming into the character and there’s pretending you did. I realize that not everyone has an eye for such details but everyone does have gut instinct and anyone can feel a good performance. 

It’s clear from this movie that some actors need time to hone their skills. While some actors are gifted, others have to develop their talent. If you think about it, before Denzel Washington became an “A” list actor, he was “B” list, right? Let us pray for patience and hope that our actors will one day reach their full potential. 

Needless to say, this movie was not a well thought out or well written. “Endless Passion?”  It was more like “Endless Agony.” EJECT