Michael Olasubomi Balogun

I'll drop a huge disclaimer before I leave this review - I don't watch Nollywood films Now, that being said... First of all, I am giving this a 5-star rating, not because I am Nigerian and I want to support my motherland, but because It is actually pretty good!! Of course, I have a few things here and there that I will nitpick on, but nothing too dramatic, I promise. All actors performed super brilliantly, save for the hitman sent to kill the groom-to-be in the first episode. (I mean, why was he frowning all over the place? If I was the attendant he met at that venue, I would have been very suspicious and immediately raised an alarm. "Hello, security, I think this guy came here to kill somebody" Lol.) However, I think his performance improved in subsequent episodes. Kate Henshaw was so savage, I loved it. My favorite character was inspector Jo I think we still need to work on our Pidgin English in our films, it still sounds very funky'fied and unnatural. Let it be known that I will watch anything that has Ramsey Nouah in it, even if it is trash. His performance is exceptional. The music was brilliantly done... Jeez, I felt chills when I needed to feel chills, excitement when I needed to, and sadness when it was appropriate...and it was all thanks to the music/scoring of the movie Lighting!!! (Inaaa) I am a color artist who finds lighting really intriguing. Lighting done properly makes the scenery look believable and realistic. I had a few issues with the lighting in some of the scenes. One example is the scene at the Cathedral church. It was a grand theft auto scene but the purple lighting didn't quite give the intensity the scene deserved. Another was the scene at Marina, while the girls were trying to flee the city. There was this intense blue light that gave a "John Wick about to go crazy" vibe, but that scene was a regular vehicle boarding scene, and the lighting choice messed it up for me. (but not so much, relax!! lol) I felt the scene with the good doctor was unnecessary and didn't really contribute anything to the movie series as a whole. I mean it wasn't bad, but the show would've still gone on well without it. To conclude... The main highlight of this was the fact that, unlike most Nollywood dramas, this wasn't predictable. I mean I had a theory about how it'll end, but it didn't turn out that way at all and that's a really good thing. I hate cliffhangers though and this will influence my final rating at the end. I don't know why the IMDB rating for this is 3.8, I know it's not the best but come on, I believe it deserves way better than that. It's a solid 7.5 I would've given it an 8 but that ending ruined it for me. I am not a fan of "leave the viewers to imagine how it ends" type of ending. Signing off Michael Olasubomi Balogun - Movie lover.