{"id":2658,"date":"2023-03-08T13:58:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T13:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2023-06-01T14:27:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:27:35","slug":"review-here-love-lies-2023-on-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/review-here-love-lies-2023-on-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: Here Love Lies (2023 Netflix) thrills and entertains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>: In <em>Here Love Lies<\/em>, Preacher&#8217;s daughter turned single mother and travel blogger, Amanda, finds more than romance when she takes a chance to meet a social media suitor in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Here Love Lies: The Cast&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tope Oshin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Moyo Lawal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Daniel Etim Effiong<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sam Dede<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Omowunmi Dada<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Angel Unigwe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tina Mba<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mark Jeffery Hayes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mr. Anderson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aaron Zapf<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>John Squires<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ria Alexander<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tom Starace<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sandra Iroegbu<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bambi Everson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Barbara Walsh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Omozele Gabriel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tim Shelburne<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stephanie Zibili<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Here Love Lies: The Crew<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Directed by: Tope Oshin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Written by: Ayoade Adeyanju <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Here Love Lies: The Review<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Here-Love-Lies-1024x597.jpg\" alt=\"Here Love Lies: The Review \" class=\"wp-image-2665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Here-Love-Lies-1024x597.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Here-Love-Lies-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Here-Love-Lies-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Here-Love-Lies.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The movie, <em>Here Love Lies<\/em>, lulls you with some tears in the beginning. Strict parents and their values that don\u2019t align with what they display. Then it makes you think it is a romcom; you almost roll your eyes at yet another romcom, and just like that, it shocks you with a dark turn, a very dark turn. It shocks you awake and you realize this is totally different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tope Oshin<\/strong> is a great director, and she does a great job taking us from Port Harcourt to Lagos, to New York, and back to Port Harcourt where it all began. I would have preferred that she is not the lead in the movie though. A younger person would have brought the role alive more. <strong>Omowunmi Dada<\/strong> is fantastic in her role as the supporting best friend and provides good humor. <strong>Daniel Etim-Effiong<\/strong> has only two scenes in this movie, but he gives us a memorable performance. His expressions are so apt, and <strong>Moyo Lawal<\/strong> is hilarious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story is unusual, and it is refreshing to see that we can write and bring alive a thriller. Though the thriller element is a short part of the movie, it is a good detour from our usual Nollywood fare.&nbsp;The dialogue is good, with the right sprinkling of humor, but there are no memorable or quotable lines &#8211; quotable lines, or meme-worthy lines are the main fares for movies these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conflict resolution is a major deal breaker for me, and while <em>Here Love Lies<\/em> does not have a rushed resolution, the struggle and confrontation scenes could have been better executed. I enjoyed the movie; it is a good movie, but not one of the best works from Nollywood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>Nollyrated Score for Here Love Lies<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>3\/5 &#8211; Good Movie<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NollyRated uses a 5-level scoring system, as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Poor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sub Par<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Okay\/Good<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Great<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Outstanding<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Join Our Tribe on Twitter:&nbsp;<\/strong>For updates on new Nollywood movies, series, reviews, cinema reviews, and Nigerian movie personalities, join our tribe on Twitter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NollyRated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@NollyRated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here Love Lies has good dialogue and elements of a thriller, along with the right sprinkling of humor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-review","tag-here-love-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3054,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/3054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}