Dumelo, Yvonne Misfire

…as 'Wrong Target' premieres tomorrow, Sept. 7, @ Silverbird

By: James Harry Obeng

Lovebirds: John Dumelo and Yvonne Nelson take their fondness for each other into 'Wrong Target'

Perhaps, the Ghanaian filmmaker and viewer are both victims of a particular disease which never heals.

This disease is about how filmmakers – especially scriptwriters, directors and producers – expend all their times and energies into making films in which the end are easily read from the very first scene.

Whatever goes on in such films are readily predictable that viewers sometime do not also have to spend much dictating how it will end. And presto, viewers of such films are often right than wrong!

This, without doubt, is one of the easiest ways a growing film industry loses its loyal patrons to rival industries – and Ghana’s is of no exception. Except for a handful of film directors and film production houses, the rest appear not to aspire beyond ordinariness and by so doing, are gradually kill the industry!

Nonetheless, there is a new Ghanaian film that is different, in the sense that the end cannot be seen through the beginning. This means that until the end comes, no viewer can predict how it will end.

The film, Wrong Target, also adds a professional touch to its entire editing that the genre is even difficult to tell. “Is it a romantic or action movie?” is the million-dollar question that hits the viewer upon watching.

This is because helpless as some viewers might be compelled to think the plot is one of love, there are also scenes and turnarounds that liken the film to typical American action stuff, such as in the detonation of explosives and the preponderance of dreaded gangsterism, among others.

But that is where the element of suspense is also effectively built by Samuel Owusu Asare (the director/editor) that, no-one blinks an eye till the end.

A debut production by the newly-established Blue Ray Pictures, Wrong Target blends the film industry’s lovebirds – John Dumelo (as Kofi Aggrey; a software developer) and Yvonne Nelson – with a couple of new and fast-rising faces, such as the sensational Crystabel Ekeh (Rose), Dream Debo (Naked) and Marrie Ganaah (Suraj), among others.

It also features Edward Agyekum Kufuor, a son of former president Kufuor, who has so far described the film as a “welcomed departure from the everyday story we see in Ghanaian movies.”

Why not then watch it when it premieres on Friday, September 7, next week, at the Silverbird Cinema (Accra Mall) in Accra.