So I decided to spend a bit of the thanksgiving holidays catching up on a few Nigerian home videos, thanks to onlinenigeria.com I had a bit of a problem choosing one I felt would be worthy of a waste of 1hr.
Since Chioma Akpota happens to be my favorite actress I chose to sit through a movie titled “Price of Peace” . . . the title should have been a red flag, only Nigerian movies have such ridiculous story book titles.
I was surprised not to see Desmond Elliot on the line-up of actors; seems no movie can be made without him playing some role. Uche Jombo? If you want a movie with plenty of noise making, aimless theatrics and the stereotypical malevolent in-law then she’s all yours.

Oh I was going to describe the movie . . . perhaps you have even seen the same storyline a million times over with different or misleading titles. A rich boy with a mother (who happens to be a widow) and younger sister marries a wife. For no reason at all the “boy” and his wife still live under the same roof with his mother even though he is rich enough to afford his own apartment… the mother and sister hate the wife (don’t ask me why), the boy has an accident somewhere along the unintelligible and disjointed storyline, he gets paralyzed from the neck down but shockingly does not require a breathing tube!!
He gets depressed and commits suicide!
THE END!

There, I’m surprised it took the movie producers 2 CDs to tell us all I just summarized in 7 lines. Don’t ask me how all the females managed to keep the same hairstyle for up to 3 yrs and still look decent . . . I’m still trying very hard to console myself for having sat through all that mumbo jumbo. At least the mallam gateman provided some moments of rib-splitting comedy in an otherwise hopelessly uninspiring movie.

This is not to say that all Nollywood (there we can’t even be original!) movies are crap, but you’d be hard pressed to find one good one in a collection of 100. I’ll let you in on one secret . . . those of you wasting your money on sleep medication should just get one home video around bed time. . . you’d be fast asleep within 15mins! Just make sure you pay me for that tip.