Sugar Rush the movie... My honest review
How do you bring all these beautiful women under one roof and still deliver an underwhelming production? Sugar Rush didn't live up to the hype for me, what about you? (Photo credit: IMDb) |
I’m a big Banky W fan, from his early days of Rihanna’s Umbrella cover to everything he’s done with EME, especially the gift of Wizkid up to his movie debut, I strongly feel he’s one of the best we’ve ever had and if I was eligible to vote in his constituency, I’d have voted him at the last election.
That said, I
have a few takes on Sugar Rush – the movie and I gave that background so no one
would think it’s coming from a point of bias. If you haven’t seen it, Sugar
Rush was produced by Jade Osiberu and came from the stables of Banky W’s EME.
To go straight
to the point, I’ll rate the movie 4/10 and it hurts more when you realize the
director is one of the best in the continent, Kayode Kasum. I think they
neglected the basics and trusted the expertise of the casts to make the movie
bang, no dear… It didn’t.
The story is
disjointed. A struggling family of three girls stumbled on huge windfall which
they lost, got close to reclaiming and lost it again, and then they related it
to Toke Makinwa’s character, she wanted to punish her cheating husband, she
contracted the troubled girls to do the job… Lol.
The girls –
Adesuwa, Bisola Ayeola and Bimbo Ademoye tried their best individually to give
life to the movie but nah, not for me. Tobi Bakre’s role was the outlet, his street
friend (Adedimeji Lateef) brought to fore the friendship magic, coming through
when least expected, will have to watch again to see if anything else attracts
me.
If you haven’t
seen it, I hope you do and then challenge my reviews. The reality level of this
movie is closer to zero than 1, so many things portrayed in this movie will
never happen in reality, I know stranger things have happened but hey, see it
first and tell me if that part where Bisola landed on Jide Kosoko’s legs isn’t
impossible.
Speaking of
impossibility, there are too many impossibilities in the movie. Williams
Uchemba’s role isn’t only unnecessary, it also watered-down lots of what they
were trying to achieve, I understand they wanted to push comedy but did they succeed
at that?
Banky W’s
role was the height of the errors. Did they try to paint Banky as a 60 year
old? Or an old man that has supernatural powers to look younger than his age?
His acting in Wedding Party and Up North should be the reference, Sugar Rush is
a weak representation of his abilities.
So the three
sisters got into Mawuli’s apartment and somehow, one of them was drooling to
the point of pure seduction, your abductor o, more like you falling in love
with someone that kidnapped you, let’s be thinking this thing well before we
throw it out na…
Yo, I
understand people find love in hopeless places but what is in your head at the
time? You’re under pressure to save your own life having been placed under surveillance,
you’re running against time and that’s when you want to sleep with a supposed
fine boy?
I tried
avoiding this but it’s the truth and you’ll kuku talk anyways so lemme just say
it, the only part I felt they got right was the part it was revealed that
Lateef was the one that ended up with the loot, how it was portrayed without
shalaye, I like.
The
production was clean no doubt, they spent money on effects and edits. A bit
exaggerated but it’s okay, so much investment on quality stars but I have big
problems with the storytelling, even the comic representation was weak.
Have you seen
the movie? It’s on Netflix in case you haven’t. what do you make of it? Do you
agree with my review? To be honest they did a madness with marketing but for
all that hype and the quality of casts… 4/10 at best.
Not just sugar rush...quite a number of Nigerian movies are overhyped and at the end when you watch you just go like "what's the noise about?"
ReplyDeleteSorry to mention including some of Kunle afolayan's but one thing we can't take from these hyped productions is that they do spend money from cast to camera and picture quality, sound etc. with some winning awards in "funny" categories which could be gratifying anyways!