{"id":2502,"date":"2023-01-30T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T13:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2023-01-30T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T13:05:08","slug":"review-of-ijakumo-2022-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/review-of-ijakumo-2022-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Ijakumo (2022) Movie: Kunle Remi is a bad boy again, and he mostly carries this movie on his head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> In <strong>Ijakumo<\/strong>, Ashabi is hell-bent on destroying the life of her former lover, Jide, a renowned pastor of a mega-church. With the help of Sharon, she plans and executes her revenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Cast\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Toyin Abraham \u2003 \u2003<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kola Ajeyemi \u2003 \u2003<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ololade Okunsanya \u2003 \u2003<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/kunle-remi-top-10-movies\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1966\">Kunle Remi<\/a> \u2003 \u2003<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lilian Afegbai \u2003 \u2003<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Olumide Oworu \u2003 \u2003<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eso Dike Okolocha \u2003 \u2003\u2003\u2003<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Crew<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Directed by: Adebayo Tijani<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Produced by: Toyin Abraham Films Productions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ijakumo-the-born-again-stripper-movie-poster-1024x597.jpg\" alt=\"ijakumo the born again stripper movie poster\" class=\"wp-image-2363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ijakumo-the-born-again-stripper-movie-poster-1024x597.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ijakumo-the-born-again-stripper-movie-poster-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ijakumo-the-born-again-stripper-movie-poster-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ijakumo-the-born-again-stripper-movie-poster.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ijakumo: The Review<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ijakumo is your regular soured romance that translates into a revenge mission. This time, the movie maker treats us to some elements of the supernatural and some fight scenes. I think the producer and director focused too much on giving great make-up, costumes, and the use of special effects. The storytelling and plotting of the movie is watery at best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I admire Toyin Abraham; she is grown in Nollywood and has pushed the envelope with her movie making, but a good script is the first rung on the ladder of making a great movie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kunle Remi has shown some versatility, and in 2022\/2023, he has been a bad boy (remember his role in <a href=\"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/anikulapo-2022-movie-review\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1834\">Anikulapo<\/a>?) &#8211; the villain in the lead roles. He gives a good report of his skills, and here, he is mostly the shining light, while the others manage to follow him through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see new faces, and they do their best. The movie has a good crowd, and that showcases the church scenes very well.\u00a0A good number of the scenes appear to be fillers, though; they do not add to the story line, and we get a subplot that is told to us, instead of acted out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I give kudos to make-up and costume, but this is not a movie I will be seeing a second time. However, Kunle Remi\u2019s acting compels me to give <strong>Ijakumo<\/strong> a &#8220;3&#8221; rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nollyrated Score: 3\/5 (Okay Production)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NollyRated uses a 5-level scoring system, as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Poor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sub Par<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Okay<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Great<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Outstanding<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Join Our Tribe on Twitter:&nbsp;<\/strong>For updates on new Nollywood movies, series, reviews, cinema reviews, and Nigerian movie personalities, join our tribe on Twitter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NollyRated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@NollyRated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ijakumo has great make-up, costumes, and the use of special effects. However, the storytelling and plotting of the movie is watery at best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}