Ijakumo: The Born Again Stripper

I am really not the type to lie. This was a solid idea. This story has a human centre. It is real, It could very well happen. I would not be surprised if this was a tale that the creators of this movie had heard somewhere adn decided to put it on screen. The audacity to attempt to tell this story is commendable enough.

The execution was piss poor. The acting could have used a lot work. The best actor here is a half-formed theatre kid. In spite of their efforts, and thouhg they destroyed certain other aspect of the fil; bad dialogue, bad cinematography, bad screenplay, the fact that it came from a good story is strong enough.

I hope we come to a time when we can take good stories and tell them properly; tweak endings, tweak events, baoance the equation, actually focus on character journeys for once, the better for us.

Nollywood suffers from a lack of structural storytelling. And I think I can help them fix that. I would explain how they messed up down to the detail but I would bring parts out of the film. Frankly, it is bad screenplaying too.

I am addicted to this movie and I watch it every day. The cast of this movie was a 100, and the character deliveries were also a 100.

Kunle Remi KR as I fondly call him didn't fail to dissect the character as always and delivered an excellent performance. KR plays any role given to him so well that it's beautiful to watch.

Lolade ogunsanya She is pretty talented and I am amazed by how she played two different characters.

Bimbo Akintola A legend as always and that part where she said "now before your god" omg gave me the chills.

Toyin Abraham She did a pretty good job with the cast the young and old character projection wasn't bad at all.

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.

So much money spent on a story and it's execution just to openly bash the Christian faith and uplift the traditional idolatrous worship of the Ifa god. Christians are painted as gullible and clerics and music ministers are painted as deceivers and hypocrites.

I am Yoruba. The writers need to be properly educated as to what culture means in the 21st century. Culture covers food, clothing, architecture, entertainment, occupation, behavioral beliefs and attitude. Religious beliefs are now largely a personal thing and not necessarily a reflection of culture. YORUBAS ARE NOT IFA WORSHIPPERS as the movie supposes the worship of the idol Ifa is an element of culture that we are proud of.

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 🙁