Brotherhood (I) (2022)
5/10
Kudos to Jade Osiberu!
4 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
We have to give it up Jade Osiberu & team for adding a fresh flavor to Nollywood! It was admirable😃 Action aside, Brotherhood was regrettably plain and missing a lot of enrichment

DELICIOUS

-OC Ukeje and Falz were the biggest surprises! OC was unrecognizable with the dreadlocks, street language, and thuggish appearance.

For the first time, we heard Falz speak normal English and look quite serious!!

-We're clapping for Jade Osiberu, honestly, this woman is a lioness to bring something new in Nigerian cinema proving that you CAN have action-packed scenes with explosives, cars rolling over, and extreme gun shooting

-No arguments on the lighting and cinematography; they were works of precision and professionalism.

BLAND

-Brotherhood was a rather simple plot. We saw Akin robbing money with his crew and Wale with his squad trying to apprehend them. That's it...

The theme of 'brotherhood' was vaguely addressed; there wasn't any intensity that made us relate to or sympathize with Wale and Akin, partly due to the ordinary dialogues and lack of character development

-Acting was overall basic. No one stood out from the crowd; Wale and Akin seemed more like friends in rivalry than brothers

-The score, the score, the score suffered big time. Some scenes that required vigorous music were accompanied by ballads while other quiet ones had upbeat music. This sadly broke the momentum

-What happened to the fighting sequences?😔They were 'safely' executed

-A couple of scenes missed logic, e.g. Two kids who've just lost their parents don't cry or scream but just stand there looking at the corpses? A senior officer goes out in the open to face an armed group without wearing a bulletproof jacket?
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