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Starring Emeka Ike, Yvonne Jegede
Directed by Simi Opeoluwa
Emeka Ike and Yvonne Jegede are love interests whose relationship is threatened by a gang of criminals.
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Videoscope
Naija Movie Critic
Registered: November 2003
Location: Lagos
Posts: 471
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Review Date: Fri May 30, 2008
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Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 2
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I want to shoot the makers of “My Target 1&2”
My sister warned me about this movie, not because she had watched it, but because of the name. She was of the opinion that if a movie has Emeka Ike on the cover kissing some girl and is called My Target, it is bound to be a bad movie. But since there was no synopsis, I had to pick the movie out on the strength of a whim, a whim I regretted some 5 minutes into the movie.
Starring Emeka Ike and Vyonne Jegede as love interests and directed by Simi Opeoluwa, the movie starts out with me only being mildly amused by watching Emeka Ike waxing poetic in yet another university-student/ loverboy role.
The first scene has Ike and Jegede crying in what I assumed was a lovers separation. They both sounded like they had been together for some time. The scene ends with Jegede handing over N100,000.00 to him, in part to prove her undying love. Imagine my astonishment when in a couple of scenes later, the two of them are at a fast food joint talking, and the question on both their lips is, “So tell me about yourself,” and this is not a flash back!
I suppress my astonishment and continue watching. But 25 minutes of confusion, random scenes and no plot, and my initial mild amusement has turned to moderate irritation. By this time, my sister, who had agreed to watch the movie with me, had moved on – to a good Sunday afternoon snooze. She indicated her reason for taking such a drastic move was because of her New Year’s resolution, which was “Never waste precious time on mindless, useless, unproductive activities.” Apparently, for her, watching the movie was one of such.
So after some 50 minutes of more randomness filled with unnecessary padding with mindless club/dancing scenes, I finally figure out that Jegede’s character is somehow linked to a criminal gang, though she is in love with Ike’s character. She tries to protect him by staying away from him, though he is having none of this. Eventually, the gang decides to come after both of them.
I really think I would pass out from sheer exaperation if I see another Emeka Ike romantic drama. This nearly 40-year-old man, with his man-breasts and pot-belly couldn’t sell ‘university student’ to anyone other than himself and the delusional producers of this movie, who cast him in the role to start with.
Jegede’s special skill for getting the role seems to have been her ability to cry at the drop of a hat and a couple of times when there was no hat in sight.
The movie starts out pretty badly and slowly but surely goes downhill from there. Then in the second part, I figure the script writer or director decided to end things as quickly as it had been going slowly before because it suddenly went completely off the rails into what I classify as pure insanity.
It was like the writer forgot where the movie was set – which was Imo State University, Owerri, clearly stated because of the numerous signs and landmarks any observant person would have seen from watching. He suddenly sent his imagination on some Pirates-of-the-Carribean inspired odyssey, casting his characters in the mix with Zombies and wild imaginary creatures both great and small, completely at odds with the rest of the movie.
It was chaotic, ridiculous and funny for all the wrong reasons. Unless the forests around Owerri hold a clan of Zombies no one is aware of, someone must have been high when they wrote that part.
If you must watch, watch for the sheer comic value of the second part. For a movie not meant to be a comedy, I think that about says it all.
Watch at your own peril.
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moviewizard
Film Pros
Registered: December 2003
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Posts: 6155
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Review Date: Thu June 5, 2008
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
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habah!
This had me rolling, now you know when you see an Emeka Ike movie, the word Run should be your watch word. Your review is off the chains, i dont have money and time to waste so its a no from me oh.
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