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Starring RMD, Dakore Egbuson
Two people whose hearts are closed to love are out to get each other. They are then forced to re-examine their notions about each other.
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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? Yes |
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I will tell you one thing for sure. I am writing this with a heavy heart (yeah right). I never thought the day would come when I would take the knife to a movie made by Charles Novia. I’ve enjoyed a number of his movies in the past including Missing Angel, The Bridesmaid and others but then, there is what one would like and then there is what is.
Caught in the Middle is not really a new movie, since it came out sometime last year. But I had promised myself I would try and watch all the movies made on the Nollywood Project platform and this is only the second one, after Letters to a Stranger, that I’ve been able to find. Since I loved Letters to a Stranger, I hoped the magic dust from that one would extend to this. I should just have saved my money.
The story is that Dakora Egbuson’s character has been sent on a mission by a club of scorned women to make a Casanova (RMD) fall in love with her and then break his heart. Not a bad premise for a movie, right? I mean, since its makers have touted it as a romantic comedy, there should be enough opportunities for laughter and romance, right?
Wrong. They seemed to have been working on the false premise that because a movie involves romance, it automatically qualifies as a romantic comedy. Never mind that the comedy part means that there should be some humour written into the script.
Unfortunately for this movie, if there was any laughter from my end, it was from sheer exasperation at the number of ridiculous coincidences that called on the viewer to suspend belief beyond what was reasonable for any movie. Coincidence after coincidence was trotted out, when out of laziness, the writer couldn’t figure out a better way to bring a situation into action.
This was yet another movie with the dreaded (for me at least) director\actor situation. Like the previous ones, the acting from the director was no better. In fact, if possible, it was worse. Bottomline? Charles Novia, please, in the name of every thing good, do not act again.
I was grinding my teeth in anguish watching some of the scenes. Some were so patronizing to women that I had to wonder whose bright idea it was to write them. From the differences in the writing for the male and female characters, it was so obvious a man wrote the script. The only dialogue that had anything remotely resembling humour and was therefore less grating, was written for the scenes where men gathered. But the scenes with women were annoying and awkward. I was so annoyed I didn’t finish watching the movie for two days. Then I remembered I had to write this column, so I returned to it. Did it get any better?
Yes it got better, the same way pigs fly. The writing got progressively worse, becoming more mundane as time passed. Cheesy line chased cheesy line across the lips of the actors, so much that at a point I was groaning every time I heard one, which meant I was groaning for much of the second half of the movie.
Romance requires chemistry and there was absolutely none between RMD and Dakore. Their scenes together just felt awkward and cold.
By the way, how come an ‘old’ man like RMD still gets to act these lover boy\ Casanova roles? Doesn’t he get tired of them? There was one scene where he kept pointing at Dakore’s breasts and talking about hearts. It just felt creepy. Nothing personal, but he looked slightly like a leery old man when he was doing that.
Then there was the scene in which the guys where sitting together at a Chinese restaurant. I’m sure the director was trying to somehow make them look sophisticated maybe because they were eating Chinese, but the noisy sizzling from the stir-fry on the table drowned out much of the conversation, leaving them looking more like Johnny-just-come.
And the other actors? Of the procession of girls who went through the movie, the only one I could remember was the casanova’s second girlfriend. Why? Because in the scene where she was sleeping, I thought she was very good at acting like someone asleep. She seemed a better actress when she was still and sleeping. Then she opened her mouth and ruined everything.
Last but not least was a scene in which Dakore storms out of a house with a big, visible handbag on her shoulder. By the time she got outside the house and into her car, the bag had disappeared. It reppeared again when she came out of her car at another location. I didn’t know being able to create magic tricks and make things disappear while on the move was part of her bag of tricks (pun intended).
I’m so hard on this movie because I expected far more from the makers. Did I get my money’s worth? You be the judge.
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moviewizard
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Registered: December 2003
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Posts: 6451
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Review Date: Mon September 22, 2008
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
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@Videoscope
See as you tear the film into pieces. Nice review VD.
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