Silent Scandals

Aight, so the first movie I'm gonna review is Silent Scandals. The movie features Genevieve and Majid Micheal, alongside Uche Jumbo and newcomer Chelsee Ada, who was a Most Promising Actress nominee at this year's African Movie Academy Awards. It was produced by Vivian Ejike

The story is about Jessie, a successful entrepreneur, we are not really told what she does but we know she also has political aspirations. All seems perfect from the outside but she struggles with her daughter, Emmanuela, who is free spirited, and rebellious. When Jessie can't take it anymore, she sends her daughter to England to live with her father.
All seems well until she hires a new driver, who also happened to be her daughter's former boyfriend, and all of Jessie's principles are tested, emotions are hurt, loyalties are tested and trust is betrayed.

Spoiler Alert!
Script
The storyline is interesting and most of the dialogue were believable. The only thing I would find hard to swallow is that Jessie went to the club with her driver, and danced with and got drunk. Even if the driver is as hot as Majid, I think it is quite unbelievable but I'm nt gonna be a hater, a large part of the movie is engaging. Also, another problem is that we are supposed to believe Majid set himself up with a big office, workers, secretaries and all, only after a year with a a bank loan.

Casting
So, the casting, in my opinion, was convincing, even though Genevieve does not really look like a mother but she acted the part well. Emmanuela (Chelsea Ada) goes on to be a model and that's quite plausible since she has the shape for it.

Acting
Hmmmmm, the acting was good but Genevieve was way to serious and she had no maternal connection with Emmanuela. Uche Jumbo plays the fun loving, supportive friend of Jessie but I felt if she toned down her energy a notch she would have hit the nail on the head, but she was fun to watch, especially since she seems to always give Jessie the worst advice.

Time Wasting scenes
There are a lot of these but I assume, Vivian Ejike is just trying to get her money back by making a Part 1 and 2.
There's two fashion show scenes, with clothes from Zizi Cardow. When Ella remembers how her Grandmother saved her from going to England and how she came to live in Abuja and become a model.When Neto (Majid) is crying with his mother about how there's no money in the house.

Picture and Sound
Picture is pretty good. And one can tell the director did not do wuru wuru to the answer. Sound on the other hand, they should have worked more on that. There were time i had to strain my ears to hear what was being said.

Fashion
Of course this is the most important, and it was awesome! Genevieve's costumes were always on point and she was rocking. Even Majid who was supposed to be poor was dressing better than my brother.
The only dress I had problems with was this dress Ella wore that looked like wrapping paper!


Conclusion
This movie was extraordinary, because it looked like time and money were actually spent and I actually bought it, with real life money oh! The end was quite horrible as it was not definite but just hung in the air, I can tell you about 10 versions of that end but forgetting that, and the other minor problems, I love this movie, so much so that I watched it 3 times in one weekend!
I would give it a rating of 80%


So I hope this review has been helpful and I hope you enjoy the movie

Later and God Bless!