So I saw this Nigerian Movie titled ‘Inale’, normally I’m not a fan of Nigerian movies. Once a while I do watch some high budget films and if I may say Nigerian directors are trying. The truth is most high budget films are packed with popular actors with good diction and an awesome poise setting with little flaws in their acting but I still feel the story line is crap. Of course compared to the normal Nigerian movie it’s awesome but in the real sense I still feel it’s crap, you don’t gain anything. Basically the high budget movies of nowadays are just trying to sell to the world that Nigeria isn’t as razz and bush as the media paint it to be, then also the high budget movies try to make a statement that they can do better in the quality of their movies compared to the random Nigerian movies and yes we agree, but I still stand on it that their story lines are shitty. Ok maybe less shitty but shitty all the same.

Then yesterday something magical happened, I saw a Nigerian movie. Inale, what attracted me to the movie was the fact that it was directed by one of the Amata brothers ‘Jeta Amata’ and everyone knows that those guys are the best directors in Nigeria (YES I said it). When I saw that it was an Amata movie I had fanny flutters (I’m straight) and already I had a biased mindset that the movie was gona be epic and boy was I correct.

So the setting was in a village in the east, not the typical igbo setting, I think it was in cross rivers and the tribe is one of those random tribes that exist in Nigeria. It started off with a white girl going to her white grandpa (who I’m guessing is an anthropologist) saying she’s scared of the monsters under her bed thus making her not sleep. Then she picks up an African carving on the table and asks her grandpa where he got it from and he tells her he got it from a village in Nigeria, he mentioned the carving was of a princess named Inale and he tells her the story of Inale. Will I tell you the story? Hell no, go watch the film and find out for yourself.

Talking about the movie, I was surprised that it was a musical. For those of you that have seen ‘Les Miserables’ and enjoyed it then I can bet you’ll also enjoy this movie cuz it’s also a musical. I can’t believe they actually pulled off a musical movie in Nigeria and they didn’t look stupid doing it. Then again it’s an Amata movie so what else were you expecting. This movies’ storyline is AWESOME, To me this is the first high budget Nigerian movie with a decent storyline that isn’t shitty. I couldn’t find a single fault with the story line, the setting was superb, the casting and the diction was also nice… But the musical scenes were, well it wasn’t all that African. They sang some songs in the native language and those songs were enchanting but the songs they sang in English had no iota of Africa in it, the last song sung had a western cowboy beat to it and I was like TF and I remember one line to one of the songs where the king mentioned something about road traffic, I was wondering where road traffic came in a village setting where the year was probably 1850 something.

All in all this movie is an awesome movie and I recommend you watch it. This movie is for people who enjoy, appreciate and understand classical movies. Like I said earlier on if you’ve seen Les Miserables and you enjoyed it then I can assure you that you’ll also enjoy this movie. If you fall into the category of Nigerian’s who watch random Nigerian movies just for the sex and killing and utter stupidity then I don’t think this movie is for you cuz you’ll probably say it’s boring. Over ten I’ll give this movie an 8. For the fact that they made it a musical and they could pull it off without looking stupid and awkward they deserve an 8.