Devil In Red [Review]

My verdict: 0.5 out of 5

2014 | Drama | 4parts | 190minutes | Watch here

This movie wasted three hours and four parts to show a woman whose father was using to plot one of the laziest and not well thought out revenge I have ever seen on television. I mean, you want to defraud a family and you use your educated daughter to just collect money from her husband instead of have her become a member of the board, so as to embezzle the money directly. Is it really that hard to write a story on embezzlement of company funds? Oh dear, make we just check out the synopsis before anything else.

A wealthy family has everything going for them, until the sins of their loved ones come to haunt them.

So, this synopsis is so not it but that’s why I am here. DIR is a movie about a woman whose father uses her to plot revenge on the Okorie family, for what the man thought as something Mr. Okorie did to him when he was alive. You see, Mr. Okorie bought Steph’s (Angel Ufuoma) father’s only land from some fellow and because of that Steph’s father waged war against the family. However, the way in which he went about looting money from the family was the weakest move EVER.

Let’s really discuss this. He wanted to defraud the Okorie family, however, he chose to use Elvis (Yul Edochie) through his daughter. You see, he sent his daughter to the same university as Elvis abroad so as for her to seduce him and get married to him. She succeeded and immediately they got married, all Steph did was to ask for money from Elvis for one bogus reason or the other. I thought that means was weak. As in, she is married to the first son, what stops her from demanding to be employed in the company since she is very well educated herself and her husband loved her so much and was ready to move the earth for her. Her father could have just told her to tell Elvis to put her in a position in the company that required very little supervision and from there, she would have looted the company ten times faster than she did without asking Elvis for money every 20seconds.

This movie like Grey Dawn was not well thought out AT ALL. I mean, why would you write a story about revenge but not really delve deep? Revenge is a very strong emotion and for that, needs to be written with extreme care so as for the viewers to see it as it should be seen rather than some random child’s play, that would soon come to an end due to the random karma we are expecting.

Also, what was the purpose of the character Jeffery (Tissy Nnachi)? I know Tissy was the associate producer but dude… why did we need to know that Mr. Okorie played the field when the Jeffery dude did nothing to the story other than maybe the aforementioned – tell us Mr. Okorie was a cheat who raw “dawg-ed” his way to an illegitimate offspring.

Even the reading of the Will was unnecessary to the story because it did nothing but waste time and to crown this mess of a movie we had to have the chick dabble into juju. Like really guys, is that the only way a bad person is able to operate or get caught? SMH.

My honest advice, stay away from this movie because not only was it terribly written, its sound fluctuated and it is incapable of holding your attention for a minute. Awful job guys: better luck next time.

Cast

Angel Ufuoma as Steph Ujunwa Okorie

Yul Edochie as Elvis Okorie

Chinyere Wilfred as Mrs. Okorie

Daniel K Daniel as Bryan Ugochukwu Okorie

Oma Iyasara as Shantel Okorie

Didi Ekanem as Oluchi

Directed by

Chuks John Ejiofor

Written by / Screenplay by

Uchenna Mbachu

Produced by