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 🙁

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.

Great movie 👍, I enjoyed every bit of it, and Asabi is so powerful and commands respect and I loved how she go hers. The characters are very good in their rolls, and I enjoyed them all, and especially Asabi, as she was so sexy with all her powers. I can't wait to see further endeavors in the future. I'm sure the next movie will be just as great. They seem to know just who to pick for cast. I'd like to see more of these characters maybe in a follow up and see what happened after the these events. I'd like to see more of Asabi as she's my favorite character, and that handsome preacher, and see what happened after. I look forward to more.

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.

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.