Movie Review - Kill Boro (Ini Dima Okojie, Philip Asaya, Kosisochukwu Ogburoche)
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Kill Boro is a suspense drama streaming on prime Video.
Written by: Priye Diri
Directed by: Courage Obayuwana
Link to Abridged version: • 5-Minute and Under Rev...
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@@pearlosibu Love the review
@@NATIVESFILMWORKS Thank you! You guys are doing great. Perhaps i can persuade you to pass me screeners ahead of your next releases? 🙃
Will be posting the review of A Father's Love later today.
Quick Comments/Response: 1) On the synopsis: The wife - Ini's character wasn't really fighting to save her life like Boro & Elijah - Boma was enduring her predicament all time, while hoping for a light at the end of the tunnel - she never made any move to save herself. 2) The words "Boro" & "Borrow" were repeatedly used to taunt Boro at the Beer Joint preceding the fight at the Beer Joint. 3) Ini Dima repeatedly told Elijah that the man he has grown to know as a father isn't the same man she married -- there were conversations establishing the fact that Elijah never knew his father as a kind man - everything changed after his birth. 4) Atanme and his men flying the Black flag was never a plot convenience - They have been provoked severally by Jaguar - Atanme repeatedly said they were preparing for war against Jaguar, he also told Boro this when he came to beg him for money. They have been triggered and ready to fight Jaguar all along - they just needed the final straw to break the camel's back - and their precious Boro being in such uncomfortable situation presented the right opportunity to take war to Jaguar - even if they had the money with them, they can't possibly go to return the money to Jaguar without being armed to teeth - It is the same Jaguar who has been killing their men unjustly and dropping their bodies by the water side we are talking about here... 5) The last 20 mins of the movie was sheer brilliance -- It is more gigantic that same impressionable Elijah fighting to kill his father, takes the lead to save same father, carrying the money and walking into the Lions den than just misplacing the money - that was the Hallmark of his Misguided Bravery!! Spectacular Writing!
Loved your point of synchronisation between the writing and direction.
As far as the extent of domestic violence goes, I get your point. But I loved how it was established through just one scene and the bar brawl before it.
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It Blooms in June..... Sista Pearl we still they rhyme. Femi Jacobs always gets the job done. Never watched The Johnsons so Ms. Pwajok was a refreshing discovery. Kiki Omeili I've must have watched in other offerings (Lekki House Wives?) but she's never quite lit my fire until now. The young gentleman - cannot remember his name - just slotted nicely into this team - and it's lovely performance. The script worked for me. The tension in finding out which love relationship would happen...and the well drawn characters. Never thought that in all my grey eminence I would enjoy a coming of age story (two stories really) so much. Takeaway bonus is I'm not sure the two adults will be able to unlight the fire they lit. On cold lonely nights, the body wants its comforts
Let me exit here and go watch this reviewed film. Looks like you like it a bit
You read that 100%. I liked that I wasn't able to tell. and ye, I don't think the adults are going to just succeed in that friend-zone they are attempting.
@@pearlosibuReal attempt 😀 Thanks! ❤
The Nollywood (or is it Hollywood) finale left me a bit dissatisfied in the end. Logic would have said Elijah could not survive a shot to the chest at point blank range. We all love happy endings but this came out as stretched. Maybe if the boy had died the film would have gone down as a great film - not just a very good film.
Anyways, the script - the edgy rawness of the domestic violence then the tenderness of rekindled affections - brought out the best in the lead actors. Great directing. Philip Asaya showed his acting range - I hope he gets industry recognition for his performance. And great range is what we've always suspected Ms. Okojie had but great beauty has a way of distracting from an actress's ability. She goes well beyond eye candy zone here. Great directing.
I'd have been rooting for Ojefua to win best supporting actor at the next awards but not quite yet. He re-estabished his undoubted talent - and acting range (that word again) but he has a lot of penance to do for letting himself get so typecast. Redemption will not come cheap.
I loved this film and agree with your review almost entirely. My best 2024 film so far - by far.
A Father’s Love. Slender - but simple tale well told about an ever topical issue. I particularly wanted to find out what David Jones David has been up to. Good to see him break away from his Bad Boy chains.
Great review
The movie is great. I love the effort to bring some coherence and believability in the movie.
Agree.
Forget Long Talk abeg!! "KILL BORO" is the Best Time WRITING l have seen from Nollywood in the longest Time ___ Ooh my!! I am of the view "Kill Boro" will be a much Best Seller as a Novel - the writer should consider publishing the story as a Novel --- l can imagine literature students discussing the character development of Elijah growing from a moral compass of a deadline gang - who prevents theft/stealing, speaks against war & revenge on Jaguar who killed their community man in the beginning - to becoming a youngman who must get revenge on his father against all odds - including stealing from his father... Such irony that Elijah never considered working extra hard to save his family from poverty, but was determined to work his life off to get revenge against his father --- On one hand Elijah was willing to do everything to kill his father - when he finally reached a brick wall in killing his father, he then had to make a quick turn in a race against time to save the same father he was determined to kill.... The Pacing of the story was slow, but it was justified in my opinion -- it helped to give proper context to the actions & mind frame of the characters.
I’m always so intrigued by my/the audience’s read on movies. This same movie, they almost beat me up in Nollywood film club over my take/love for it. Very fascinating. That’s why i love doing this.
I think that movie gave enough reasons for the fly the black flag. There was already a preparation for battle happening in the background. They going to have to enter Jaguars territory to return the money. These are gang members there was always a possibility it could have gone violent so do I being prepared beforehand. Even when they got there the said we Boro and Elijah and we will leave peacefully. He was know Jaguar is a dangerous man who kills. I also believe not everythings that a movie does always must push the plot forward. Sometimes the serve the theme or atmosphere of the story.
I can agree up to an extent. i think the issue for me is the dialogue. If they had said something that implied we go in peace but are prepared for war. What they said positioned them as instigators, and considering how reluctant Atemie had been to engage, it seemed too pat, like he wa looking for an excuse, when that was not the case at all. But I guess there's some grey there.
As for your second point, again fair. The scene grated on my nerves because the movie was already too long and that seemed like yet another indulgence.
Appreciate your comments.
I was privileged to be at the premiere of Kill Boro and I loved but should have been shorter.
Completely agree
A minor disagreement :
I think there was a reason to prepare for war.
Remember Jaguar has been daring or trying to bait Atemie. It will be folly for Atemie to go to their camp without preparing for war.
I replied to someone else here in the comments. But you know what? I can concede I might have been wrong on that point. You guys are probably right on that. 🤍
Is there a movie you’ve liked more than this one since you started this channel?
I’m actually thinking. I have to think about it.
Good one Pearl but I quite disagree with the story or plot being well developed .
Case in point is the despondency of Boro that was meticulously established and then all of the build up to his lucky break /the subplot resolution is 2 casual mentions of the wristwatch?
There's a reason even biographicals that are stories that have practically written themselves, have some elements of "untruth" about them to add creative depth that elicits the right emotions per scene. The exposition of the wrist watch's worth was badly done in my opinion.
There's also the part of Boma trying to convince Elijah his father had changed. Her first tacj was quoting "Honour tour parents? Im as christian as Christian gets but there's no excuse invalidating your son's feelings or trauma witj a Bible verse. As a Gen Z, i think rhe writer could have struck a better balance.
While it is a good debut, the story felt rushed to me. I can't tell if its that we've become complacent at the technicalities of script writing or there's an undue rush to location.
The only way to break a rule beautifully is to master it and that takes time. Filmmaking is more than a bragging right endeavor. I hope we remember that.
All fair points. As to the 3rd point, I think there's a difference between what the writer is saying versus what the writer is saying that the character is saying. Boma has learned to tell herself many untruths; almost everything she says throughout the movie sound like a collection of mantras to help her cope. Including that he's a good man etc. Stockholm's syndrome? Perhaps. But does this reflect the emotonal truth of the character? i say yes.
Always enjoy your comments! Thank you.
Oh, and let me add, as far as complacency: I am takin gmy L there as well. I think sometimes there's an unconscious "by Nollywood standards" bias playing out in my head. especially considering the volume of NW movies I watch to select which to review. There's so much smut out there and I get so despondent that when i see a plot and film as a whole miles ahead of other, I think I sway far in the other direction to where the results are exaggerated in my eyes. I have to guard against this. This movie, for instance; it doesn't struggle with the usual technicalities of 95% of our movie; the reviews for those are the same recurring refrain. I think I'm happy to just have a film to review here I'm not doing the same "poor camera angles, no emotional depth, terrible acting and directing etc". But thank you! I'll recente rmyself.
I agree with the "what the character is saying" angle. Perhaps what she didn't do then was make sure there was a resolution to Boma's Stockholm syndrome. Real remorse and intentional apology from Boro. Just as it happened in Chemistry, remember?
And I totally get the Nollywood bias. Happens to the best of us😀. When I said complacency though , I meant the scriptwriters. The reason script writing has guides is to checkmate how we build our stories. Seems our "youngins" have totally thrown that out the door. And it's so pissing because they make us choose between the evil and a lesser evil.
Pearl, I could talk film all day but I gotta crash 😀. Thank you for reviews. I like how you approach them.
@@yemisiprimeaxisrealtyi don’t remember any real remorse or anything like that in chemistry. See my review. Till the end that man had no idea what, if anything, he did wrong. That was terrible.
Your views about the movie is personal and valid (although l find them quite absurd). But your comment went extreme when you started speaking like a custodian of script writing techniques... It's interesting to see that you fault a movie because a character who invalidates her own emotional feelings invalidates her son's feelings, as if that is not the reality of lots of Nigerian mothers & their children... You have a problem with 2 casual mentions of the wrist watch - would you have preferred they dedicate ten scenes discussing the value of wrist watches, before the wrist watch can satisfactorily save the day ?? Well, they say: Sometimes the treasures of this life lies in unexpected places....