Gold Statue (2019) User Reviews (3)

the crew sabotaged the cast's efforts!

[ngandacinema · 6/10 · 14 September 2023]

Gold Statue was indeed gold in the screenplay! An outstanding cast that sold the story for us. We laughed till we couldn't breathe!

But the crew, very very very very regrettably, sabotaged the production doing a great injustice to the hard-working actors 😖

DELICIOUS

-The film opened up to a super thrilling torture scene that rapidly caught our attention. The fluid storytelling really engaged us

-Gabriel Afolayan is so flawless! And the supporting cast was well selected, making us laugh to the point we had a severe migraine🤣

Shout out to Kunle Fawole, Ali Baba, and Sola Sobowale!

-The yellow color palette was an adequate representation of the golden theme

-Over-hilarious dialogues and interesting characters that enriched the screenplay

-So, what lesson did we learn after all? Cleverness+Connection+Resilience=Success :D

BLAND

-A movie like Gold Statue requires great special and visual effects to transport us into the narrative.

However, this was poorly executed coupled with a weak photography; the prison yard and underground area looked so unreal...

Such a big injustice to the hard-working cast

-How did the prisoners dig a tunnel in such a silent and discreet manner?🤔

Keep your brains at home and watch it for fun

[jayeshdave78 · 3/10 · 2 June 2021]

A credible ending could have also changed my rating to a higher one. This one is for the 1980's.

So Bad It's...

[nammage · 1/10 · 3 June 2021]

...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.