Sexy Girls: 'Misadventure by another name'
Onoshe Nwabuikwu
This is the film to wipe my tears from My Sister's Tears. Judging from its title, it would be nicely without depth, all flash and glamour. Alas, alas. Here I am, grappling with cultism and lesbianism none of which is established.
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Ken (Nonso Diobi) the leader of a campus gang hands his sister, Ifeoma (Benita Akpofe), to his female friends who also happen to be a member of the Yellow Babes, an all female cult. They initiate Ifeoma after killing her boyfriend, Charles (Raheem Caz Chidiebere). Before all of this, Ken has been 'raking' and boasting, puffing and lots of flaring of nostrils the way only Nonso Diobi can. It's all "sound and fury signifying nothing". He ends up accidentally shooting his sister as he pursues Zita (Mercy Johnson) and NK (Uche Obodo).
There's supposed to be a lesson somewhere but I have to consult my ophthalmologist and optician to see it. All I see are unanswered questions: How does Ifeoma manage to switch to the cult when there isn't that real pressure and knowing her brother could've protected her? How does Ken conveniently disappear till after the initiation?
I did make one discovery not exactly earth shattering, but I now know that Mercy Johnson, even in her two-sizes-too-small, buttons-about-to-pop shirts, cannot do 'area babe,' which is surprising, considering her humble beginnings. She's too much 'the' Mercy Johnson, to carry this role. She goes through the motions - but she doesn't lose herself and the viewer obviously can't forget she's 'the'... Not with the close ups on those famous curves and breasts.
