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Lagos Big Girls 2024 is a Nigerian movie about five people. First is Vanessa and Matilda who are pimps. They used to be best friends but after Matilda snatched Vanessaโ€™s boyfriend, they became sworn enemies. 

Vanessa and Matilda

Next are Amaka and Tobi. Amaka is one of the prostitutes in Vanessa’s roster, contracted to sleep with Tobiโ€™s boss, Honourable. Amakaโ€™s apathetic approach to life strikes a chord with Tobi, leading him to fall for her. They date, but something happens that ruins their relationship.

Amaka and Tobi

Last is Geraldine, Vanessaโ€™s golden goose. Matilda poached her which leads to a war between the pimps.

The Plot

Honourable is hosting a political event, and to entertain his fellow politicians, he needs to hire prostitutes. Vanessa is the first to hear about it from one of her escorts, who then tells her best friend, Geraldine.

Geraldine informs Matilda and competition for who would get the contract begins. 

Geraldine informs Matilda and competition for who would get the contract begins.ย 

Matilda offers Tobi a 50-50 split while Vanessa who is greedy, strong-arms Amaka into manipulating Tobi to choose them. 

Tobi initially agrees to give the contract to Matilda because he needs the money to start up his business but after Vanessa leaks Geraldineโ€™s nude photos, he calls it off. 

Tobi then gives the deal to Vanessa but while they are celebrating, Matilda strikes back and Vanessa is exposed for human trafficking, blackmail and extortion. 

In a fit of rage, Vanessa exposes the plan she made with Amaka to seduce Tobi for the contract. Tobi is upset and leaves. Amaka tries to reach him but he refuses to be reached. 

In the end, Vanessa and Matilda get arrested. Geraldineโ€™s husband dumps her while Amaka and Tobi rekindle their relationship.

Thoughts

Instead of doing the usual positives and negatives, I have suggestions. Things I believe would have elevated the movie.

I get that this movie was made on a shoestring budget but some things could have been done in the story to make it richer. 

1. Geraldine and her husband should have been shown more. From her reaction to when he moved out, it is clear that she loved him very much. We should have seen that. We should have seen why she had to prostitute to earn a living. We should have seen him try to forge a career for himself and fail at it.

2. Sharonโ€™s husband should have been cut. He was irrelevant to the plot. The actor should have been Tobi and the actor for Tobi should have been cast as a customer who falls in love with Amaka 

3. Each whore house was supposed to have extrasโ€ฆ girls just in the house filling up the space and selling the story that Vanessa and Matilda are the pimps they said they were. Even if it were five girls per house seated – going in and out. It would have been great.

4. Tobi and Amakaโ€™s love story should have been well written. Give us dates, give us yearning, that old-school Ramsey Nouah corny cheesy love romance. Make us root for them so that when they break up – we are hurt and pray for them to get back together. Final Whistle is a good place to start if you want to research Nollywood-style yearning. 

5. The face-off between Matilda and Vanessa should have been about Honourable. Both women are sleeping with him and he starts favouring one over the other. One finds out and tries to oust the other which leads to both women losing out. 

6. Sharon should have been a proper right-hand woman to Vanessa. We should have seen her co-ordinating the girls. Counting the cash, reporting back to Vanessa, cleaning up the messโ€ฆ you know doing actual work. 

7. We should have seen Vanessa actively recruiting women the way they said she did. The exposition dumps made it hard to connect with the movie.

8. The movie should have started with a flashback scene of how Vanessa and Matilda moved from best friends to enemies. 

Verdict

This movie is a โญ out of 10 stars for me. It was not fun to watch at all.ย 

Cast and Crew

Cast
Osas Ighodaro as Vanessa
Francess Nwabunike as Amaka
Enyinna Nwigwe as Tobi
Prisma James as Geraldine
Onyeka Mercy as Sharon
Frances Ben as Matilda
Daniel Nsude as Anthony
Chief Ewie Aimienwanu as Honourable
Crew
Directed by Uche Agbo
Produced by Precious Kadiri
Executive Produced by Ruth Kadiri
Written by BuchiWrites
Edited by Yusuf O Jokomba
Music Score by Emmanuel Ikenna Nwani

Release date September 26, 2024
Distributed by RuthKadiri247
Running Time 107 minutes

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