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Angelic Bride, by Ndubuisi Okoh
Bad Company
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rédigé par Kila Odunayo
publié le 26/11/2008

If you saw Another New Day, a February 2005 Sunny Collins Romantic Melodrama which featured Bimbo Akintola, Tony Umez, and Clarion Chukwura; then you have no business with Angelic Bride.
Angelic Bride, which features Benedict Johnson, Queen Nwaokoye, Uche Elendu, and Hope Igboanugo in a Romantic Drama released this November is only a distasteful replica of Another New Day, and for worse, symbolizes the story of Nollywood itself.
This is because Another New Day which is even of longer feature-length was offered as a single intense unit whereas three years down today; Angelic Bride, a shorter, poorly produced, and boring offer on the whole sells as two-parts. You pay more for worse.

Williams Ofor, the writer and producer did not even bother to do anything new or exciting to the three year old Another New Day story of a successful young guy who pretends to lose all his riches in order to see which of two ladies he's involved with loves him and not his wealth.
As expected, the one he really loves turns out materialistic and would not stick with him one day longer soon as she found him now penniless. On the other hand, the conservative less exciting lady (for no established reason though) remains steadfast all the way.
So, Precious (Benedict Johnson) ends marrying Lillian (Queen Nwaokoye) rather than Sandra (Uche Elendu) his fiancée. Precious 'planned' the bizarre show because of a nasty experience he had losing the love of his life to a rich man some years back before he made it.

A trait of excessive materialism in one is valid concern for partners journeying to matrimony, and storytelling themed on social issues bordering on crisis of values, particularly when formatted for the screen, requires sensitive handling.
Angelic Bride however, could not open fresh insights or in the least, perspective possibilities, or even any identifiable point-of-view for a viewer. The largely uninspired effort offers no such illumination even on its own dismal terms.
Rather, Mr. Ndubuisi Okoh, the director concerns himself with copious yet lifeless dialogue stringed with counterfeit accents in bad grammar where even all that emerged far better than the acting; except for Queen Nwaokoye's.
Poor Queen; very few others (of her contemporaries) in the business have displayed her capacity for such immersion. But in the hands of Angelic Bride's handlers, and surrounded by mostly appalling performances; Lillian is not likely to win her any prize.

Coverage too goes the way of the treatment in studied disregard for good taste and any aspiration towards excellence. Maybe DOP Victor Ibeanusi only followed Ndubuisi's lead because harmony-wise, Victor could, for instance, well have been lighting for Sesame Street.
If anything must be said, it'll be to leave Angelic Bride alone; it's bad company.

Kila Odunayo Olakunle

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