First thoughts
I didnโt really like this movie but I refuse to give it a โmehโ because of the subject matter it tackled.
I love, love butโฆ
I was glad that this movie wasnโt about love. It was about how the powerful oppress those whom they deem weak. You have a character whose fundamental rights are trampled upon. He was stolen from and he is forced to start life afresh.
The Cast and Crew
Rhema Isaac as Baba Kuti
Onyi Alex as Amanda
Maurice Sam as Lasisi
Elochukwu Godwin as Noble
Faith Duke as Sarah
Oloruntola Ayodele as Bamidele
Tochi Obika as Deji
Chisom Joshua as Smallie
Rita Mandu as Efe
Written by Onyii Metuh
Produced by Massa Shot film production
Directed by Ubachukwu Kenny Donald
Plot
Noble runs down a lady with his car, but instead of apologizing, he comes down and insults her. Lasisi sees what happened and intervenes, threatening to deal with Noble if he doesnโt leave. Some weeks later, Noble sees a land he likes and thinks would be a good site to build a hotel. He seeks the owner and propositions him with a price. The owner, who turns out to be Lasisi, refuses to sell.
Noble, not willing to lose to Lasisi, involves his sister, Amanda, who is also a police officer. Amanda visits Lasisi and offers him 200 million naira for the land. Lasisi refuses, and then Amanda threatens him. She tells him that he has only two weeks to accept the offer after which she and her family would collect the land by force.
Two weeks pass, and Amanda connives with Lasisiโs lawyer to steal his land documents and uses one of Lasisiโs underlings, Smallie, to plant a gun in his home. Lasisi manages to run away from the police, but is now a fugitive, with his face and name plastered all over social media as a criminal.
Amanda, excited about her win, calls her and Nobleโs younger sister, Sarah, while she is driving. She tells Sarah to dress up, that once she gets home, theyโre going out to celebrate. However, that was never to be because as she was talking to Sarah on the phone, her car crashes.
The doctor informs Noble that Amandaโs leg was so badly broken that she might need to get it amputated to save her life. On hearing this, their maid, Efe, suggests to Sarah that they take Amanda to one Baba Kuti to help. Efe says that he is very good at his job.
When they take Amanda there, Sarah is worried at first, but with the assurance of Baba Kuti, she leaves Amanda there. However, soon Amanda finds out that her carer – i.e. Baba Kutiโs assistant – is his nephew, Lasisi, she is scared for her life. She thinks that Lasisi wants to kill her, but with time, she realises that he doesnโt. He still hates her, no doubt, but killing her is not his MO.
The guilt starts to eat her up, and she begs for his forgiveness. Lasisi refuses to forgive her. Her begging becomes too much, so he stops helping Baba Kuti to care for her. Amanda, determined to right her wrongs, clears his name in the press and returns his land documents back to him.
In the end, they become friends.
Rating out of 10
I give it ๐ฎ๐ฟโโ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ฟโโ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ฟโโ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ฟโโ๏ธ.
I think my biggest gripe with this movie was how a lot of the important plot points happened off-screen. Doing that cheapened the movie and removed the intensity that would have made it a very good film.
Like for example, we never saw Lasisiโs lawyer or how he connived with Amanda to steal Lasisiโs house papers. But we saw all of Lasisiโs fifty-eleven gang members. Why didn’t they just cast one of those guys as the lawyer?
Another was Smallieโs betrayal. We never saw exactly how Smallie planted the gun in Lasisiโs home – an important detail that could have made the betrayal seem more effective. Hell, we didnโt even get to know why Lasisi never wanted to sell the land in the first place.
The movie had good intentions, I respect that but I think the writing and direction was weak. I honestly think they were scared of how good this story could have been, so they reduced it to this.
Do you agree with me?