Friday NightMay 24, 2009Friday NightOriginally uploaded by NollywoodForeverFriday Night – 2008Story – Adjoa Van Vicker & Diana MorrisScreenplay – Van VickerDirector – Van VickerStarring:Van Vicker – PapeNana Ama McBrown – MissyLivingston Kwane Lotsu – AndreOmar de 1st – RashidFred Magma Johnson – KobiGloria Osei-Sarfo – AbigailZiggy Nartteyson – GamboPatrick Sarfor – JakeMaame Gyamfua Asibey – BrendaJanet Osei-Sarfo – BerniceNii Offei Dodo – StickGloria Nyarko – AbenaSunita Tetteh – ChristabelEdmond Quarshie – Hotel ManagerBright Alogbaya – SunshineThemes:ProstitutionPimpingMarriageInfidelityMy Rating: 8%This the blurb from the back cover of the movie:Childhood friends Pape, Koby and Rashid, now married have made an outing every Friday Night, a tradition in their lives, even though their wives try to talk them out if it. What they do at these outings is “unimaginable”. Koby has a grudge that he must settle with Pape so he honours a deal with a notorios pimp Jake the Shadow to get one of his whores Missy in trouble to get back at Pape. Missy on the other hand wasnt to buy back her freedom, like her friend Debra in order to pursue a singing career, but Jake has a plan in motion.It was a perfect hook up but on the wrong night.Friday Nights can be freaky.*************SPOILERS*************The reason that I have copied the synopsis fromt the back movie cover is that I could not finish watching this movie, and to the point I had got up to I could not really tell what the general gist of the story was except there was a pimp, some hoes and a dude cheating on his wife.I was looking forward to watching this… Van Vicker’s attempt at writing and directing a movie… I wish I could say that it was a great effort but I can’t. It was torturous watching this absolute drivel. If you look at it the concept isn’t bad but the execution was horrible, a complete waste of a story. I started with an open mind but only 11 minutes in and I was ready to be finished.The begining alone should have contained some scene to draw viewers in and make us want to keep watching, instead we are stuck with a club scene with loud music and no dialogue. I got bored very quickly and my patience was wearing thin but I persevered.We see a scene with Andre in his bedroom in his marital home. One of the girl’s he met from the club the night before calls him on his cell. He starts shouting at her that she shouldn’t have called him. His wife then walks in and he hangs up on her changing the conversation as if he is talking to a business associate that needs to meet up with him urgently. his wife is suspicious and while he is pretending to talk on the phone calls it. Of course it rings and he is BUSTED!So what does he go and tell his wife as his excuse for lying,“It was this stupid girl from the club last night – You know how they are. She said she was lonely.”What kind of idioticness is this? What man is going to say that, a man that is supposedly trying to show that he is sorry. I would imagine they would at least pretend that they were trying to get rid of someone that had been after them for a while. I mean what is a married man doing giving his number to a chick in the club only LAST NIGHT anyway?The wife then does some exaggerated talk to the hand type of gesture. The whole scene is so dreadful, fake and terribly acted.There is another scene that was also kinda weird. The prostitute Missy has run away from her pimp and is in the gym. The camera focuses on her and Brenda. Brenda keeps looking over at Missy and smiling in a suggestive way. It looks to me like Brenda is a lesbian trying to prey on Missy. When the exercise class is over Brenda goes over to Missy and they start talking. The exchange is as if they are strangers, however within minutes they are talking about things that would suggest that contrary to being strangers they actually know each other very well. This is the height of bad execution.Maame Asibey who played Brenda acted like she needed to be in a pantomime. Everything she said was as if there were an exclamation mark after it and her eyebrows were constantly raising as if she were suprised. Nana Ama Mcbrown was decent, but what good is decent with everything else around you being so bad?Half an hour in a gave up and switched it off. Perhaps it gets better but I really didn’t care enough to plough through. I would not recommend this at all. On the plus side Livingston Lotsu (with the dreads) was a nice piece of eye candy.
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