This boy was a welcome sight in every scene and even stole a few scenes from others. This boy can act! Sure, he’s a kid acting like a kid throughout the entire movie but Lord knows that I want to learn how to snap my fingers the way that he does, lol. Martin Kabanza is full of energy and is phenomenal. After all, this is a Disney film, right? So the character has to evolve into her final form before achieving some overall goal. She has no confidence! I see it now! They’re planting story beats and it makes sense. After some time with her character you get a better sense of Fiona and why she’s typically soft spoken. Fiona takes some getting used to as she’s so soft spoken early on in the film that I actually had a hard time discerning if the subdued approach was intentional or if Madina Nalwanga was a bad actor.
The acting in this movie is right on point. The movie starts with a whimper despite the obnoxiously loud volume from the speakers in the theater giving us a look at Katwe’s home. After a few minutes a few other folks wandered into the mostly empty theater and had a seat and the film began. This made me feel that I either walked into the wrong theater, the showing was cancelled, or worse.
I wasn’t too familiar with the film and I had a really hard time finding a theater actually showing the movie and, to make things more interested, I walked into a completely empty theater when it was showtime. or voice role-the kind of presence that made Nyong’o a star in the first place.I walked into the Queen of Katwe not expecting much. It’s all the things you can’t capture in a C.G.I. She laughs, she cries, she shouts, she just gets to be, delivering a tender performance that will remind viewers of the spark they first saw in 12 Years a Slave (and haven’t really seen since). And though she’s not the central character, Nyong’o gets her screen time, playing a strong-willed woman who gets to tap into a full range of emotion. In it, Nyong’o plays Harriet, Phiona’s mother. That’s why it’s so exciting to finally see Nyong’o herself back onscreen, starring in the delightful Queen of Katwe, the biopic about Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi.
This mysterious dichotomy-constantly present, but conspicuous in her absence-has caused plenty of frustration for the legions of fans who delighted in her ascent, particularly black-female fans who were excited about watching the rise of a bright new star who looks like them. And so Nyong’o has technically been everywhere-in movie theaters, on red carpets, at every awards show of note-except visible as herself, in a starring role in a major motion picture, since the film that gave the actress her big break.
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