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Brotherhood – Nollywood 2022

🎬 This movie had everyone hyped up when it was first released to the Nigerian cinema audience in 2022. A quick google search will show it’s highly rated by viewers too. But here’s my thought on what I watched on a small screen.
It tells the story of twin brothers, Wale (Falz) and Akin (Tobi Bakre) supposedly taken into custody by their struggling aunt after being orphaned at an early age. An implied years of hardship and street hustling later, they are now adults with each living on the opposite side of the law.

🧐 Here’s one of the first things that caught my attention, the use of stethoscopes during that sting operation. I’m still on google trying to understand what a medical equipment was doing there, otherwise I need answers.

🍿Now to my proper review, since I only became a Nollywood girl in more recent years, I enjoyed watching O.C. Ukeje in bad boy role. Also, I found it refreshing to watch the use of well established actors (as opposed to “wakapass”) as the brothers’ parents, considering their very limited appearance.
Perhaps one of the favourite parts I enjoyed watching was the embedded narrative used when Akin/Kala was introducing members of his own gang and their role in his proposed heist.

I thought most of the acting needed polishing, a few people may have also thought they were extras on a stage play.
Then the police car that flipped over was already badly dented before its actual flip, but that can be overlooked tbh.
But what cannot be overlooked however, is the bags of blood splattering gunshots. Blood was actually been shot/thrown out, as opposed to being shot at and the blood dripping out. That was very poor on the productions end.
I also felt like some of the action sequences during the robbery was slow. But what do I know?

⁉️ I am not doubting all the noise that Naija people made, especially as you tend to overlook flaws when you watch a movie on the big screen, compared to on a smaller (up close) screen. But still, I am highly disappointed because I looked forward to watching and being part of the hype so much.

▶️/⏭️ Although, Ronke Oshodi-Oke’s acting was good and Basketmouth was impressive for the few scenes they both showed up in, Tobi Bakre basically had to carry the success of the rest of the cast’s poor acting on his head. No seriously, Tobi Bakre’s body must reel in pain and he definitely would not have been paid enough for how he brilliantly played his part as Akin/Kala.
He’s the only reason I was able to watch through to the end. And so his efforts don’t go to waste, I can grudgingly recommend that you may want to watch Brotherhood, even though I unfortunately think it’s a passable movie.

📺 Brotherhood (Nollywood, 2022) is now streaming on Prime Video.

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