Starring: Ruth Kadiri, Seun Akindele, Uru Eke

Synopsis:
A young woman sets out to stage her own kidnapping hoping to collect a ransom from her family but to her detriment she was kidnapped for real.

Review:
Chinny (Uru Eke) believed she was treated unfairly when her father left her sister, Ruby (Roth Kadiri), in charge of his financial affairs. Chinny lived life as a struggling student while her sister seemed to have it all.

Ruby believed Chinny was irresponsible and this proved to be true when Chinny allowed herself to be influenced by her best friend and planned her own kidnapping. But her life was put in jeopardy when someone had the same idea and kidnapped her for real.

Let’s Talk. This is a drama about wealth, greed, and revenge. The storyline is familiar, but as we know, movies are reborn everyday. We have a young woman that was persuaded to organize her own kidnapping but little did she know, there were hidden agendas.

The story is best described as a drama and although it avoided the usual gripes such as lengthy story set-up, unnecessary scenes, and sound issues, somehow I came away from the movie emotionally disengaged. I couldn’t figure out why at first so I decided to critique myself.

I thought maybe I was watching too many movies, or that maybe I was becoming an impatient fart, and that after years of watching African movies, I had become immune to them.

I concluded that watching too many movies may have been a part of the problem because when Chinny, the main character, was mysteriously kidnapped, I knew right away who the culprit was. For me, that made the movie predictable. So instead of watching a movie of intrigue, it became a movie of expectations. Also, there was a certain vapidity that lingered throughout the movie that caused a disconnect.

In terms of the relationship between the sisters there wasn’t much to go by. Chinny was labeled irresponsible but there was little indication of that prior to the kidnapping.

Performances? Satisfactory.

Video quality and sound were adequate.

Although the story was decent it just wasn’t captivating enough. EJECT