THE DEPARTMENT REVIEW (2015)

Hello My peeps,
I hope y'all are doing great cos I am feeling exceptionally cool today(yet to find out why anyways)...so, some time during the week, I was at the cinema with my friend hoping to see 'the wedding ringer'(Hollywood). We got there around 1:25PM as the movie was slated for 1:50PM according to their official website. To our dismay, the website fed us wrong info. The movie wasn't showing by 1PM afterall, we had to see another film. 'The Department' was the closest so we went for it. Am taking this much time to explain the circumstances that led to this movie for emphasis.
This movie is a thriller that starrs Desmond Elliot, majid Michel, jide kosoko, osas ighodaro,o.c ukeje and many more.

Now, to the movie proper: let's go from the good part to the not-so-good part. I think the writer did a great job with the script, it is very different, detailed and somewhat complex. The actors were brillant, they tried to bring the characters to live. But I would humbly disagree with the choice of Osas ighodaro as 'Tolu'. I didnt think she did justice to that character, I would say 'Tolu' is not in her to give(no disrespect). The entire movie was poorly lit, I dont know if that was a concept or something but I particularly didn't enjoy that. Also,the costumes and make up were very much below average, looked like they forgot that the actors will actually need clothes and then it hit them suddenly and they used whatever they could lay their hands on especially the character of Tolu. There was this 'sucobla'(a combination of suit, coat and blazer) that one of the characters wore that cracked everybody up in the viewing hall.the lady sitting beside me said that 'sucobla' will make 3 dresses for her comfortably(lol).
The first 30 minutes of the movie was almost boring because we couldn't just get the gist. Medway, tempo picked up. I respect the courage to do this kind of work, its bright,challenging, different and rare.kudos to the director, but permit me to say this:if you must take up such a project, be certain you can see it through.just a thought..

SYNOPSIS
Tolu is part of a secret criminal department in one of the prominent conglomerates in the country until she falls in love and gets married. Now,she is a bored housewife looking for a job.the department calls her back for one last job which she accepts against her husbands' wish. Her husband is out to make sure she fails to save their marriage.

Produced by Ink Blot productions in association with Closer Pictures, the movie parades actors like O.C Ukeje, Desmond Elliot, Majid Michel, Osas Ighodalo, Jide Kosoko,Kenneth Okolie, Seun Akindele, Somkele Iyamah, and a host of others.