Wednesday Night Movie Review

It's been a while and today isn't Sunday, but humor me.

So, I just saw the movie Close To Perfect, done by the Royal Arts Academy and starring Belinda Effah.

Ha! In recent times I begun not liking Belinda, even though I was excited for her when she started out. She was so good and from my neck of the woods. But then she begun over acting... I wasn't feeling her... it was as though she was forcing it and I was pained and quite frankly, frustrated.

But with this movie, hope bloomed that she wasn't a lost cause. She was indeed Close to perfect... pun intended!

This movie is about a young, maltreated Pastor's wife who has to live a charade with a husband who flagrantly cheats on her and refuses to sleep with her, all these done with his mother's support.

The Pastor, played by Seun Akindele, brilliant performance by the way, listened only to his mother and though he would've loved to divorce his wife as she couldn't give him kids, he couldn't do that because of the Ministry.

Real problem begun when his wife caught him getting a BJ in his church office. She moved out and stayed at a friend's place but got raped by the second pleasant surprise of the movie... Umar Krupp... that fair Ghanaian actor that is known for acting gay parts and that can chew gum for Africa.

Surprise, surprise though, Umar didn't play gay, neither was there a gum in the scene. He was the bad boy half brother of the friend and he drugged and raped Belinda, of course, impregnating her one hand!

Pastor called her a whore and treated her as such. He tried several times to instigate an abortion by poisoning, causing falls and bargaining; nothing worked, he even brought his mistress home with his supposed biological kid. ..

But then, bad boy Umar returned a changed man, desperately asking Belinda for forgiveness, begun being a true friend who rapidly fell in love with the Mama, all without knowing the pregnancy was his.

All in all, this is a movie you should watch. They acting was superb and Nollywood unusual...in a very good way.

Ciao!
On to the next movie 🎥

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