emerald 1&2

Film title: Emerald.

Producer: Kingsley Okereke, CShimezie Emelionwu

Director: Ikechukwu Onyeka.

Main cast: Genevive Nnaji, Majid Michel, Tonto Dike.

Year of production: 2009.

Length of film: 1:15:40, 1:15:11.

Genre: Romance.

Reviewer: Mercy Etukudoh.

Theme: Love.

SUMMARY.

The movie is about a girl named Emerald( Genevive Nnaji) who is embarrassed by a young man named Max( Majid Michel) when she stops a taxi. Max claimed he stopped the taxi and since he was in a hurry she should get out of the cab. This same Max turns out to be a friend to her aunt’s niece, Becky (Tonto Dike). Becky tries to convince Emerald that Max is a good person and she decides to invite him to her party so Emerald could formally meet him.

At the party, Max accuses Emerald of stealing a beautiful ring that he saw on her finger, he claims that the ring had been in his family for generations and that it was stolen some years back. She tries to convince him that she bought the ring from an old woman who was in the antique store she had gone to with Becky. She tells him the woman also claimed that the ring had magic and that it would bring her good luck. Max does not believe her, he then forcefully kisses her as a way of punishing her, she slaps him.

He confronts Becky about it, Becky tells him that he had made a mistake and that Emerald had bought the ring. Max is very sorry and he tries to amend his mistake but Emerald does not want to listen to whatever he has to say. She gets worried because everything that was happening, had happened in her dream the night she had worn the ring to sleep. Max does not know about this, he keeps trying to talk to her. They later fall in love but can’t be together because Max has a crippled wife at home who constantly drives him crazy. His wife leaves him for his friend. Max and Emerald end up together and the ring returns to the family.

The movie was okay. The production was not bad. The storyline how ever to me was very poor. There were too many twists and turns in the movie.