4:4:44 Review…the crew sabotaged themselves😭
Year: 2022
Genre: Marriage, Period, True Story, Sickness, Drama, Romance
Cast: Richard Mofe-Damijo, Nse Ikpe-Etim, Chiwetalu Agu, Alibaba, Seun Akindele, Efe Irele, Idorenyin Essien, Blessing Onwukwe, Michael Pankyes John, Shan George, Broda Shaggi
Director: Izu Ojukwu
Writer: Ufuoma Metitiri
Cinematographer: Peter Kreil
Summary: 4-4-44 (i.e. April 04, 1944) is about the love story of Hillary and Theresa whose relationship is tested by a severe mental illness
Overall Rating: Water 
4-4-44’s trailer was more exciting than the actual movie to our great surprise and sadness…
It seemed like the crew sabotaged themselves being unable to deliver a proper production 😭
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Delicious
—Nse Ikpe-Etim (playing Theresa) and Idorenyin Essien (playing Theresa’s first daughter) saved the day!
Nse’s mental illness moments were believable; our hearts broke down during her schizophrenic episodes, panic attacks, and the times when she was just calm caring for her family.
Idorenyin’s quietness was painful to watch as she grieved on the inside yet was strong on the outside to be the mother of the house
—4-4-44 was a story that needed to be told so we could have an idea of how mental illness gravely affects a family and how society reacts to it
Bland
—The audio, the audio, the audio was not refined and at times barely audible. The ADR recordings weren’t properly mixed that they were clearly detectable
—The movie wasn’t told in a captivating way; the scene sequences didn’t complement each other. The going back and forth between the present and past segments wasn’t smooth, sometimes we wondered in what year we were.
—We were told about the event of April 04, ‘44 only after an hour into the movie and that was done very rapidly 😫
I mean this is the title of the film, this day should have been presented in a memorable manner, providing enough details to have a full scope of how everything unfolded
—So many things to say about the flawed technicality which jeopardized the movie big time. The editing of green screen shots was poorly executed that we could tell the images were fake.
The cinematography didn’t utilize good camera angles to enhance the narrative and the color grading didn’t give off an ancient appearance.
—Acting was passable and dialogues were basic without enriching the plot
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(Audio: English; English Subtitles: Yes)
