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Nigerian Prince

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Synopsis

After being sent to Nigeria against his will, a stubborn Nigerian-American teenager joins forces with an Internet scammer in order to return to the United States.

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63
Aug 20, 2020

The street life is vividly captured, and the dialogue — in English, Igbo and Yoruba (with English subtitles) — is sharp and expository.

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Metacritic review by Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Movie Nation
50
Oct 18, 2018

When the stakes are raised, ho-hum thriller plotting takes over and Okoro struggles to clarify what his characters want. By the end, everyone’s motivations are fuzzy and the promise of a uniquely complex story of cross-cultural education, opportunity and morality has withered.

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Metacritic review by Robert Abele
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
60
Oct 18, 2018

Okoro has bent over backwards not to make the poverty-row version of a glib crime thriller, but he shouldn’t have bent so far.

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Metacritic review by Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Variety
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