How Van
Vicker Did
In “Friday
Night”
Don’t you
wish his
writing and
directing
skills were
better than
his acting
skills?
Sorry to
disappointed
you.
Four
friends,
Andre,
Rashid, Kobe
, and Pepe
make
club-hopping
a ritual
each and
every Friday
night. Boys
will be boys
when these
gentlemen
hit the
club. While
their wives
and kids are
at home,
they
deliberately
take off
their
wedding
rings to let
the ladies
know that
they are
instantly
single.
No strings
attach. At
least that’s
what they
thought
until one
Friday night
Pepe(Vicker)
hooked up
with
Missy(Nana
Ama Mcbrown).
The perfect
hook up
quickly turn
into a
nightmare
for Pepe
when he
finds out
that Missy
was a
Prostitute,
and that she
was dating
an notorious
pimp, who
send gunmen
behind them.
Pepe’s
living
nightmare
spins into a
bad reality
TV show when
the press,
the pimp,
and the
police got
involved. Oh
yeah, his
wife was
force to
watch the
entire thing
on TV.
Sounds like
an episode
of
Cheaters?
Well you
will just
have to see
it yourself.
He wrote it,
produces it,
directed it,
and starred
in it.
Not too bad
for a pretty
boy who used
his pretty
face to sell
videos. The
good news is
that he is a
better actor
when it’s
his own
movie. His
performance
in Friday
Night
was not an
award-winning
performance,
but it was
much better
than that
thing he
does in all
his
movies...look
pretty for
the camera.
Friday Night is his debut film. Let’s not be hard on him. Michael Angelo did not paint the sixteen chapels in one night and Alicia did not stroke the perfect key on her first try. You have to make a lot of rough draft before you can create a masterpiece; in Vicker’s case, he has to make a lot of bad movie before he can give us something worth watching. He is not yet spike Lee, but with hard work and perseverance, he may be on Mr. Lee’s level one fine day.
The phrase “Friday night” was uttered almost twenty times in one scene and more than hundred times throughout the entire movie. It was like a bad commercial, repetition of the products will brain-washed the consumers; therefore they will buy the products. No. writes better lines Mr. Vicker.
Because
Friday Night
is his first
film; I am
guessing he
couldn’t
afford real
actors. The
lack of
talent (on
the acting
of course)
is what
contributes
to the death
of the
movie. Nana
Mcbrown, one
of Ghana’s
FOB (Fresh
out the
boat) gives
a terrible
performance.
It would be
rude (on my
part) if I
dabbed what
she did in
Friday
Night
acting. But,
there is
always next
time. Omar
de 1st,
looking
smooth as
usual gives
a great
performance.
Actually he
didn’t say
much, but he
still did a
better job,
compare to
Nana.
