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Amazing Grace was all hype,35mm,white B-British actors and more hype.it wasn't anything spectacular.
Izu oJukwu AMBO's movie-SITANDA is quite more better in both concepts and technical term.
its far more better than Amazing even though it wqas shot digutally.

Bros,learn the hard truth.this guys are scarred of new ideas.so if u got a story,try to
produce it. thats what am gonna do to my own action scripts.

Nice,seun. you know i figure this site us healthy for young wannabe filmakers who
are gonna be the next new wave of filmakers who are gonna revolutionise the nigerian film industry(i don't refer to it as nollywood).
Hey,i have a Sony Hdr-FX1 hanging around.(you are talking to the next hot thing).Thats a HDV Camcorder.
So if u need quality video hook me up at 08060205783.Horak speaking. I would like to share the experience with you one way on one way. PEACE

Hmmph try SAINT OBI for size eh . WELL SOME GUYS( AND LADIES )WHO HAVE COOKED UP THE JOINT (CRITERIA A MEAN FACE AND DRAGGING VOICE)WELL HERE GOES:
EMEKA ENYIOCHA- GOOD
JT TOM WEST-  EXCELLENT
BIMBO MANUEL- GOOD
STEPHANIE OKEREKE-GOOD
HANKS ANUKU- PLEASE
SAM DEDE (IN GSM CONNECTION)- MR PERFECT
SEGUN ARINZE- TYPECAST VICTIM BUT GOOD IN THE GENRE
ERNEST ASUZU - YIKES WHO DUN IT?
MORE COMIN UP, 

AHH,BROS NOT LIKE THAT I AM AN ACTION FILM GEEK SO I JUST DEY LOOK WETIN NAIJA GOT TO OFFER. I NO GET THAT KIND TIME FOR THEM NOLLYWOOD RESHUFFLED FILMS OH.
AHH OPARI-O. I JUST DEY LOOK OUR ACTION DIRECTORS ABI YOU WAN HEAR OF NOLLYWOOD ACTION STARS?

THE NAME JOHN WOO WILL STRIKE ANY DIE HARD ACTION FAN AS THE BEST AND ACCLAIMED ACTION DIRECTOR IN THE WORLD.IN THE NIGERIAN SET UP WE HAVE SOME DIRECTORS WHO ARE CRAVING THEIR NAME IN THAT GENRE. I PRESENT THE FORMIDABLE ONES:
TECO BENSON
HE IS THE GUY THAT TOOK UP THE GENRE WITH FULL FORCE AFTER THE SUCCESS OF AMAKA IGWE'S RATTLESNAKE.HE TOOK OFF WITH HIS OFFBEAT EYE 4 EYE(1999). AFTER EXECUTIVE CRIME HE EXPERIMENTED WITH AN UNCONVINCING ST OBI AS AN ACTION STAR. TECO REACHED HIS PEAK WITH STATE OF EMERGENCY WITH SUPERB PERFORMANCE FROM HIS CAST OF EJIKE ASIEGBU,RACHEL ONIGA,ASHLEY NWOSU,BIMBO MANUEL AND THE BEST ACT OF THE FILM J.T TOM WEST (WITHOUT A DOUBT THE BEST UNDER RATED ACTOR IN THE LAND). TECO BUILT AMOMENTUM WITH THIS SUCCESSFULL FILM THAT HAD SEVERAL RIP OFFS. HIS WAR FRONT WAS NOT ALL THAT POWERFULL.TECO'S MAJOR FLAW IN HIS STORY IS HE ACTUALLY BACKOFFS FROM THE ETHICS OF AN ACTION MOVIE WHICH IS ENDING A MOVIE WITH A GRAND SHOOTOUT FINALE.WATCH STATE OF EMERGENCY AN AUDIENCE WON'T BE TOO THRILLED WITH THE FALL OF JT WEST AND HIS CREW BY A MERE ELECTRIC SURGE. HE ALSO MAKES USE OF THE THEME OF DEATH AS FAVORABLE JUSTICE FOR THE VILLIANS IN HIS MOVIES.TAKE THE DEATH OF LUGA IN[b] FALSE ALARM(TECO'S BEST MOVIE)[/b] AND TONY UMEZ IN EXECUTIVE CRIME. ALLTHIS APART TECO TAKES HIS PLACE AS AN ACTION DIRECTOR WHO CHANGED THE FACE OF THE FILM MAKING IN NIGERIA.
IFEANYI ONYEABOR
JOHN WOO IS A GREAT ACTION MAESTRO BUT IN SOME MOVIES HE EMPLOYS STUNT DIRECTORS TO CHOREOGRAPHY SOME ACTION SEQUENCE(RINGO LAM IN A BETTER TOMORROW 2).ONYEABOR FALLS IN THIS CATEGORY.HIS EXPERIMENT WITH HIS STUNT FILLED MOVIE SCOUTS PROVED HE IS TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. ONYEABOR IS A VERY GOOD STUNT DIRECTOR.HIS FIGHT SCENES ARE GOOD AND GIVES HIM CLASS.MADE AKI AND UKWA DUO LOOK GOOD IN JOLLOF RICE TO BELLY HIS FORESIGHT.
TARILA THOMPSON
A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT AS A DIRECTOR.HIS CHOEOGRAPHIES FOR HIS EARLY MOVIES LOVE WITHOUT LANGUAGE AND BACKSTAB(1996) WERE GREAT BUT HIS VENTURE INTO FULL TIME DIRECTING PUTS HIM OUT OF THE SCORE.HIS EFFORTS WITH ST OBI IN MORE THAN A WOMAN AND SENSATIONAL SPY ARE A DRAB.HE MADE A NONSENSE OF TECO'S EARLY SUCCESS IN HIS OWN TAKE OF THE SEQUELS FOR STATE AND[b]WARFRONT[/b].HE IS GOOD AS A MARTIAL ACTS DIRACTOR OF THE OLD DAYS SHOULD DO SOME CHECKS BEFORE HE OPTS FOR THE SEAT AGAIN.
IZU OJUKWU
THIS GUY IS ONE HELL OF A MYSTERY.THE OTHER GUYS ARE VERY POPULAR IN THE CIRCLE BUT THIS CHAP REMAIN SOMETHING ELSE.IZU IS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE BEST FILM DIRECTOR IN THE LAND AND HE IS ABOUT TO GET HIS NAME PLACED WHERE IT BELONGS.HE MADE THE STUNNERS SHOWDOWN AND THE WORLD IS MINE.UNPOPULAR MOVIES THEY ARE BUT THEY ARE A STANDOUT DUE TO THIS GUY'S SENSE OF AESTHETICS.IN THE DERICO ERA,HIS PORTRAYAL OF THE CHARACTER IN HIS ACTIONIER DESPERADOES IS THE BOMB. IZU'S STRENGHT IS HIS USE OF UNORTHODOX CAMERA ANGLES,MOVEMENT AND ACTION CHOREOGRAPHY.CHECK OUT SHARKLES AND THE RUGGED CROSS,IN THE LINE OF DUTY AND 11TH HOUR.HE BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN HIS ACTORS AND CREW.HE DOES NOT GO FOR FACE ACTORS AND BROUGHT OUT THE BEST IN JT TOM WEST NO WONDER HE WAS AT THE HELMS FOR TWO BIG BUDGETS IN RECENT TIMES: ACROSS THE NIGER AND LA VIVA .IZU IS NOT YOUR REGULAR JOHN WOO, RINGO LAM OR ROBERT RODRIGUEZ HE IS JUST IN A CLASS OF HIS OWN.THE BEST BET FOR A STUNNING ACTIONIER.
WHAT SAYS YOU? :

I AM a thorough JACKIE CHAN FAN AND I HAVE SEEN ALMOST 90% OF HIS MOVIES. A TRUE ENTERTAINER AND FAR BETTER THAN BRUCE LEE AND JET LI IN TERMS OF ACTING PROWESS.
HIS COMBINATION WITH SCHOOL BUDDIES SAMMO HUNG AND YUEN BIAO ARE ALWAYS THE BOMB.HOPE TO SEE A NEW COLLABORATION OF THE TRIO OR A FILM WITH JET LI.
HIS NEW POLICE STORY BROADENED HIS ACTING PROWESS FOR A DRAMATIC ROLE RATHER THAN HIS SLAPSTICK ROLE IN RECENT HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTION.

a sense of perfection brings good quality. the issue of carrying on the same headstyle and nails have to do with characterisation of the cast/actor. if u got to play a character, be the character.
example (permit my hollywood standard,well, they are the best)watch out for Jeffrey Wrights the character of Peoples Fernandes in Singleton's SHAFT.He is a black but convincingly acts out a latino.That is extensive character study (or check out Don Cheadle's accent for the movie HOTEL RWANDA). Filmakers have to be conscious of every fact in a story line to avoid too much goofs if they are to be taken for real.

WHEN YOU GO OUT TO MAKE A MOVIE YOU HAVE TO PLAN IT ALLOUT TO AVOID SCREW UPS.I MEAN I GET THIS CREEPS WHEN I WATCH SOME NOLLYWOOD STUFF.
EVER SEEN 'CARCASS", THERE WAS THIS APPALLING SCENE IN THAT WOODS WHERE A GUY GOT HIT ON HIS BALLS BY A FEMALE HE WAS ABOUT TO ASSAULT AND WATCH HIS MOVE WHEN HE IS ABOUT TO FALL IN PAIN-THIS GUY HELD HIS CROTCH LOOKED AT THE GROUND BEHIND HIM BEFORE CREASHING DOWN IN PAINS. WONDERFUL. AND YOU GUYS ARE OKAY WITH SUCH Z-CLASS ACTING. Hmmph.

All this fuss about nollywood being the bomb in the limelight in terms of film production in africa, you have to hand it over to south africa.

Two years in a roll their films were nominated for academy awards ( yesterday and tsosti )and "nillywood " basks in the euphoria of quantity never quality.

I must give it to nollywood for making some good flicks on shoe string budgets and use of digital cameras, but coming to professionalism quality south africa got to have it.