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In a night club, Ken (Emeka Ike) meets Aliya (Lilian Bach), who asks
for his help, and for a place to stay. Initially, he thinks she is a
prostitute and tries to get rid of her, but eventually she persuades him
otherwise ... and before you know it, she has moved in with him - much to
the dismay of his landlords Peter (Amyamele Sam) and John (Digidi
Dunhill), who at the same time want to get into her panties, somehow
believing she has to be a prostitute since Ken has picked her up in a
night club, and they are totally freaked out by her after she had appeared
out of thin air in their room, and later vanished into thin air again. So
the two of them find the first pretense to throw Ken out - which is
especially bad since Ken has just lost his job, and his sister Ada (Ogechi
Adim) has come to stay with him, and she, also mistaking her for a
prostitute, is not particularly fond of Aliya.
Then though, everything seems to turn to the better, when Ken finds a
job in management with the Shell Oil Company, and soon moves into a posh
house with Aliya and Ada. And when his mum (Christy Okonkwo) comes for a visit, she is
positively impressed by Aliya (even if Aliya lies a bit to make her own
life sound better) and ultimately forces her son to propose to her.
But when Ken asks Aliya to marry him, she says no. She says at least
not now, and wants 6 months time, because she's not ready, as she
claims, but Ken suspects something else ...
... and Ken might be right with his suspicions, because one day when
they are out, Aliya all of a sudden desperately tries to hide from another
man, Paul (Richard Mofe Damijo), all of a sudden, someone from her past, no
doubt.
Soon enough, Ken forces Aliya to tell him about her past, and she tells
him about Paul, who has treated her badly and cheated on her, but who
wants her back and might even get violent if he sees her again ...
For the moment, Ken is saatisfied with the story, and he even tells her
about how he was hurt by various girls who only saw his money and ditched
him when they found someone richer.
With each of them knowing about each other's past, it seems their love
is stronger than ever, but then weird things start to happen: at times
Aliya seems to disappear from her bed into thin air, only to reappear
minutes later, and Ada even sees her floating in mid air above her bed at
one point ... and then Aliya starts to talk in riddles, as if she had to
leave soon, as if she was only on a mission, to give Ken love.
This is all too much for Ken, but then he by chance meets Paul and
decides to hear his side of the story.
Paul tells him that he was with Aliya when he lost his job, and somehow
his unemployment made him incredibly horny, so before long he shagged
every girl that came his way and wouldn't say no right away ... and
inevitably, Aliya found out. However, Aliya stood by him, and even
encouraged him to get a new job at a bank ... but the njob interview is
less than successful, until the car of the president of the bank, Sandra
(Hellen Ohameze), breaks down right in front of his house, and when Paul
helps out, Sandra shows herself more than a little attracted by him.
The next day, Paul has the job, and he is also provided with a house by
the bank ... only when Aliya comes to visit him, she realizes he is
actually living together with Sandra ...
Of course, Aliya leaves him, but later she has to visit him at the bank
once again, since he has some documents about some land belonging to her,
which she originally gave to him to get a loan from the bank and which he
now no longer needs. Despite everything that has happened, Paul tries to
again make up with Aliya, but then Sandra enters and hits Aliya over the
head with a paperweight ... which kills Aliya, but Sandra has the right
connections to hush everything up.
Ken is shocked, but of course he doesn't believe the last part of the
story, since Aliya is back at his house, very much alive ... but when he
comes to his house, Aliya - after a heart-to-heart talk with Ada - is
already gone, vanished into thin air for good. And when Ken can't find her
anywhere anymore, he decides to take the last logical step - visit her
mother. And Aliya's mother confirms that Aliya has died 3 years ago.
It seems, all that time Ken has lived with and loved a ghost - or was
it, rather, an angel ...
Is Angel of Destiny a good movie?
Quite simply put no, it is in fact poor on a sheer
technical level, most notably sound, lighting and special effects, and any
atmoshperic direction is at best hinted at.
But is it a bad movie ?
Not really, especially regarding the circumstances of production: Like the bulk of the (quite massive) output of the Nigerian film
industry, Angel of Destiny is a cheaply produced
made-for-video-film, technically not nearly as accomplished as similar
output from any of the big moviemaking nations ... but it's of course not
fair to judge what has to be considered as a Third-World-movie along the
standards of First World-cinema.
Of course, Angel of Destiny lacks
the polish of a Hollywood production, but that said, the film shows a primitive love for filmmaking and has the
cheap charm of a B-movie you just cannot forget, despite of all its
shortcomings ...
PS: Please take care, Angel of Destiny is often sold in two
parts, but you do need both to understand the film.
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