More Netflix boring crap, I'm glad it's free so i don't pay for these terrible selection.
Gold Statue
2019
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Gold Statue
2019
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Plot summary
Two young men, Wale and Chike are in search of a 'Gold Statue' believed to have been a deity inherited by their generation. In trying to locate where the supposed statue is located, they go through a series of unimaginable ordeal's and put themselves through some ridiculous painful situations that leave their parents shocked.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
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Movie Reviews
Another waste of time
So Bad It's...
...still really bad.
There is so much wrong with this film that to list them here would take up all the space. It's a film that comes from Nigeria about two or three people (two physically, one elsewhere) trying to find a supposedly mythical golden statue worth half a billion dollars. USD or Naira, I don't know. Probably the former. If one was to convert that to Naira, that would be $1.2 million. Still a lot of money but for the plot: doesn't really seem worth all the trouble. See, the statue is apparently beneath a prison. One friend becomes a guard and the other ends up getting set on fire after stealing from the wrong people.
I guess this is a comedy. I didn't laugh once. The video quality is so amateurish that it looks more like a bad TV movie from the 1990s. I could see people who are desperate for money doing the things the main characters do in this film; even from a comedic standpoint. But the two main characters come from families that are reasonably well off so it just amounts to greed. And, it's exactly what it is from the beginning. One character even says, paraphrasing "It's worth dying for." If you were desperate, maybe, but as I said: these boys aren't desperate: it's just greed. Which, in the end: makes the film fail...
But of course there has to be a moral, right? No. And the ending doesn't even make sense. So, they found the statue. Looks like it's 10 ft tall, and it's worth a $1 billion. You know how much gold that is by weight? A little over 27 tons which they got a few people to pick up underground with their own body strength and then put it in the back of a pickup truck like it was nothing. It would take an average of 60+ people to lift a single ton. Look it up. Also, they apparently made an exact replica and gave it to the Nigerian Government who are apparently very gullible and didn't check to see if it was real gold.
Yeah, it's stupid and not even in a good way. It tried to be a comedy, it failed, tried to be a drama in the middle: totally failed, and tried to have a twist end where one of the actors then explains to the viewers at home how they pulled everything off (which in of itself had its own errors.) Just. Not. Good. Oh, and waaaay too long of a film.
Keep your brains at home and watch it for fun
A credible ending could have also changed my rating to a higher one. This one is for the 1980's.