Usually I can move past the plot and situations of a movie and appreciate at least the themes, acting talent, and character development. Sadly, this film was severely lacking in all above areas.
The highly predictable climax eliminated its possibility of generating suspense, as most of the movie lacked any sort of tension anyway. The trite assignations of badguy immigration police, completely twisted and evil boss, completely goodhearted and innocent main characters caught in a big mess, etc. just didn't do it for me. Then the sudden turn of each innocent main character to undesirable practices just didn't work; perhaps a different script and better director could've done it, but the script simply didn't allow for it.
I'm willing to ignore such questions as, why flush a heart down the toilet? Why isn't the heart just with the rest of the body? I was trying to invent interesting situations, such as the other body parts having made it down the piping, but that didn't sit well with me, and I doubt the writers thought of it anyway. Why didn't Ogwe just call in anonymously to the police, and bring the whole thing down, or at least try?? So many questions like this, the answers to which either didn't exist or made no sense. This had more plot holes and less character development/sympathy than a lot of American summer blockbusters I've seen. Pirates of the Caribbean comes to mind!
And if it had the character development and empathy and such to back it up, I could forget about things like that. But it doesn't. Ogwe will never take money to keep quiet, but he will steal a kidney and 10 grand to save himself? alright, I can buy that... NOT!
And just to let you folks know, the entire concept upon which the movie is based, organs on the black market, is completely farce and ridiculous. I believe other people have mentioned why it simply doesn't work and would never work.
3 out of 5. Not really high up there as far as dramas go. Too many holes and overall lack of substance to ignore.
The highly predictable climax eliminated its possibility of generating suspense, as most of the movie lacked any sort of tension anyway. The trite assignations of badguy immigration police, completely twisted and evil boss, completely goodhearted and innocent main characters caught in a big mess, etc. just didn't do it for me. Then the sudden turn of each innocent main character to undesirable practices just didn't work; perhaps a different script and better director could've done it, but the script simply didn't allow for it.
I'm willing to ignore such questions as, why flush a heart down the toilet? Why isn't the heart just with the rest of the body? I was trying to invent interesting situations, such as the other body parts having made it down the piping, but that didn't sit well with me, and I doubt the writers thought of it anyway. Why didn't Ogwe just call in anonymously to the police, and bring the whole thing down, or at least try?? So many questions like this, the answers to which either didn't exist or made no sense. This had more plot holes and less character development/sympathy than a lot of American summer blockbusters I've seen. Pirates of the Caribbean comes to mind!
And if it had the character development and empathy and such to back it up, I could forget about things like that. But it doesn't. Ogwe will never take money to keep quiet, but he will steal a kidney and 10 grand to save himself? alright, I can buy that... NOT!
And just to let you folks know, the entire concept upon which the movie is based, organs on the black market, is completely farce and ridiculous. I believe other people have mentioned why it simply doesn't work and would never work.
3 out of 5. Not really high up there as far as dramas go. Too many holes and overall lack of substance to ignore.
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