{"id":3162,"date":"2023-06-13T08:08:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2023-06-13T08:08:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:08:41","slug":"a-lot-like-love-2023-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/a-lot-like-love-2023-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lot Like Love (2023) on Netflix is a Flat, Disappointing Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <strong>A Lot Like Love<\/strong>, a young heiress who happens to be married to her influential father\u2019s right-hand man finds herself in a predicament when a weekend getaway anniversary trip turns into a nightmare she can\u2019t wake up from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rank-math-toc-block\" id=\"rank-math-toc\"><h2>Table of Contents<\/h2><nav><ul><li><a href=\"#the-cast\">The Cast\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#the-crew\">The Crew<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#the-review\">The Review<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#nolly-rated-score-for-a-lot-like-love\">NollyRated Score For A Lot Like Love<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-cast\"><strong>The Cast\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Adam Garba<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sophie Alakija<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ibrahim Suleiman<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rahama Sadau<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gabriel Afolayan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-crew\">The <strong>Crew<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Produced by: Rose Abiodun<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Directed by: Shittu Taiwo <\/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\/2023\/06\/A-Lot-Like-Love-movie-1024x597.webp\" alt=\"A Lot Like Love (2023) (on Netflix)\" class=\"wp-image-3164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/A-Lot-Like-Love-movie-1024x597.webp 1024w, https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/A-Lot-Like-Love-movie-300x175.webp 300w, https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/A-Lot-Like-Love-movie-768x448.webp 768w, https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/A-Lot-Like-Love-movie.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-review\">The <strong>Review<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I kept waiting for this movie to truly start, but it never did.\u00a0For a movie that claims to be a drama, there was little drama to be seen. The story does not have a good plot or substance to hold on to.\u00a0This is the second movie by Rahama Sadau that I will be reviewing, and I come away with the same feeling: muted, understated, and lacking in drama or good dialogue.\u00a0 The fashion is good though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rahama Sadau appears to have a block in her acting: either she needs to learn more about acting, or she needs a better director. I understand cultural preferences, but a movie needs more drama than her productions give us, either as the actor or the producer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ibrahim Suleiman is a good actor, and he has the potential to be a great actor, but there appears to be a lack of desire to dig deeper and bring out the best in him. In this movie, he is even more muted than usual, and I am greatly disappointed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The greatest disappointment, though, in A Lot Like Love is Gabriel Afolayan. Since we first saw him in Madam Dearest, more than 20 years ago, he has shown us what a method actor he is, and the range of his emotions, no matter the role. But in this movie, he is not up to his usual skills demonstration. Perhaps it is a function of the story, the setting, or the director.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sophie Alakija is true to type. She has always been about her beauty: her lines are always delivered in a lackluster manner, without the required emotions or facial expressions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Lot Like Love is a movie featuring love, betrayal, kidnap, and emotions, but it was a flat production apart from the kidnap scene, and even that is poorly acted. There is no real life in this movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A secondary school movie project would have provided better excitement than what this movie gives us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"nolly-rated-score-for-a-lot-like-love\">NollyRated Score For A Lot Like Love<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Score: 1\/5<\/strong> (Poor Movie) <\/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, 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>A secondary school movie project would have provided better excitement than what A Lot Like Love gives us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3164,"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-3162","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\/3162"}],"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=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nollyrated.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}