Ijakumo: The Born Again Stripper

A title like Ijakumo just sounds intimidating and powerful, makes you wanna expect something grand; however, it was a brilliant idea carerlessly executed.

DELICIOUS

-We loved the idea behind this film, a vengeful lover on the quest to destroy a fake pastor. Kunle Remi's shaved head and Toyin Abraham's long locks, hmmm. That was thrilling to see 😃

-Hats off to Lolade Okusanya (playing Sharon, the stripper) and Debbie Shokoya (playing young Asabi). They looked beautiful and were filled with passion. This movie audaciously exposed Sharon in all her stripper elements, while Debbie radiated courage and determination

-Kudos on the casting for picking the right actors to represent the young and older versions like Olumide Oworu & Kunle Remi, Tomiwa Tegbe & Eso Dike, and Debbie Shokoya & Toyin Abraham

BLAND

-The sound effects and score were not intimidating at all, they sounded funky rather than scary; we won't even mention the sound engineering which is always a giant to defeat in Nollywood

-The color grading should have been dark to install a terrifying element, but the images were rather super bright.

The art direction even produced bright costumes and set designs. The room where pastor Jide had meetings with his chiefs was filled with lots of candles which defeated the fear factor

-There was a lack of true purpose for the characters, they just seemed to be there without playing an important role, which resulted in weak acting.

Bimbo Akintola and her league of chiefs were supposed to be dreadful people but we just saw them meeting up and not doing much.

-Forget about the logic in this story: a hacker is able to extract login credentials just by knowing the name of a device??

-That advertisement moment when they talked about the cryptocurrency company and even went as far as to give us the website details and how to access it, we were shocked 🙁

Casting was excellent. Sharon and her "Idi Uganda" killed her role. Kunle Remi played the fake pastor perfectly. The young Asabi (Debbie Shokoya) was a delight to watch, the way she delivered her lines was extraordinary. I love the exhibition of Senior Yoruba Nollywood actors and actresses in the film. Antar Laniyan, Alapini Osa, Madam Saje, Lalude etc. The traditional settings were just pure brilliance.

And yes, there is hardly anything to see in modern Nollywood stories. Most themes have been explored over and over. A jilted lover seeking revenge is particularly well worn. However, the execution of the story by Toyin Abraham (popularly called Iya Bola by my kids) is just brilliant and keep you watching till the end.

The movie streamed multiple times in my home during the Ileya Holiday, everyone simply wanted to see Ijakumo. Kudos to the team, great work.

If you have not seen it, you are missing greatly. This is an A-Film. Thanks to Toyin for such a great work.

Well for me I would say this movie is Lovely it tell us that the evil can't go unpunished and we should stop deceiving people because it easy for people to fall for a trap,we should be good don't trust someone with all ur heart ,they may not like u and pretend to like you the enemy in disguise we should just be careful because at the end we would be left alone of course yes so I would just have to say thank you and well done ma'am keep on the good job Toyin Abraham I wasn't expecting the movie to be this great but it turned out very prefect and most times our loved ones have to carry our cross.

I wonder how this movie was ever released. The acting is horrible, visuals are appalling. Storyline and overall presentation is extremely disappointing. Netflix should better take this down. The movie makes absolutely no sense at all.

Do not waste your time this, ended up regretting after 2 hrs, expecting some plot twist or for it to pick up. From start to finish, it's not a single bit captivating, lacks any sort of intrigue.

Not sure what the producers were thinking, or was this even screened prior to its release. Hard to believe it is still possible to put out such mediocre content.

All the best if you want to try this.

Whoever is the writer of this movie should refund my money ASAP!! The movie is nothing to write home about and I keep watching hoping it will get interesting only got it to be more and more boring I think movies should be reviewed before been put on this platform.

Whoever is the writer of this movie should refund my money ASAP!! The movie is nothing to write home about and I keep watching hoping it will get interesting only got it to be more and more boring I think movies should be reviewed before been put on this platform. Whoever is the writer of this movie should refund my money ASAP!! The movie is nothing to write home about and I keep watching hoping it will get interesting only got it to be more and more boring I think movies should be reviewed before been put on this platform.