Thursday, October 28, 2010

White Hunters












MOVIE REVIEWER: AJAYI FAITH OLUWATOBILOBA 09BE08941
TITLE:
WHITE HUNTERS
(the above is the movie jacket for the USA DVD release, i think it would market more had they included Funke Akindele on the cover as well, she has a larger audience after infamous movie JENIFA)
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STARRING:
-Funke Akindele
-Ini Edo
-Mercy Johnson
-Halima Abubakar
-Chigozie Atuanya

STORYLINE:

Young women constantly looking for greener pastures in white men. The only survival plan is to get hooked to white men from any part of the world with loads of money

PRODUCER:Sylvester Obadigie
DIRECTOR: Afam Okereke
Story by: Sylvester Obadigie
Screen play: Ubong Bassey Nya
Casting by: Sylvester Obadigie
Production manager: Ejike Chinedu Obim

Plot: The movie is about three friends Tabitha, Pamela, and Peggy. These three friends were in search of white rich men. Tabitha ended up with two white rich men and married them. Pamela, after she got dumped by her black fiance, started her own search for a white man because she did not want to feel left out as some of her friends were all married to rich white men. She ended up with a 73 year old white rich British man who was known as a loner that drove his first and second wife to their suicide. Peggy ended up with an Indian, garlic eating man that she herself was disgusted with.


MY REVIEW:
It is not the greatest script movie but it is a very realistic movie.
It's about girls trying to hunt for oyibo men by any means necessary because they think its their meal ticket. Funke (with only secondary education under her belt) competes with Mercy Johnson and Ini Edo characters for oyibo men.
Funke's character searched and searched and searched but to no avail until she found herself a GARLIC EATING INDIAN MAN WITH A TURBAN ON HIS HEAD (she met him in a grocery store and pursued him).
Mercy's character had me in stitches with her new found white love as she competes with Ini's character - a 73 yr old man using walking stick - this is what i mean by "By any Means Necessary".
All the white actors acting in this movie was NOT GOOD as expected. They were so fake. The most irritating "white man" in the movie was that "British old man" that Mercy johnson's Character (Pamela) got. It's not like there are no real white men in Nigeria that will be glad to act movie, knowing that white people have a thing for adventures. Apart from the fact that it teaches us lessons, the acting was poor. I did not even believe that Ini Edo will act that kind of movie. Even the sounds were not properly edited.


CAMERA SHOTS: It was dominantly Close-up medium shots. There was also long shots. This was seen at the scene of the party Tabitha threw for her second white husband.

4 comments:

  1. The movie is portraying a negative image for our country especially in a black community where the female object are often being portrayed as sex objects(prostitution)

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  2. The movie was not portraying the image of the country positively esp when the search of true love is missing it was all about the money and who can bed a rich white man and marry him to climb up the social ladder. But the production was bad and the "white men" were sooo fake.

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  3. This movie is not good for our country,because nigerians have been marked as a corrupt country,with this kind of movie,our corruption rate has increased automically,imagine the bad image of our ladies as prostitutes is been confirmed,here in this movie.

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  4. Well, naturally i hate nigerian movies and this one has crowned it all. The production is wack, and the white men?- that was the worst.

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