Starring: Femi Jacobs, KC Ejelonu, Segun Arinze

Synopsis:
An uptight man is thrown for a loop when a one-night stand results in a pregnancy.

Review:
Aka (Femi Jacobs) lived his life according to schedule. He was a meticulous man that believed so much in planning that he mapped out the remainder of his life.

As a painter, he won a contract and found himself at a bar having a celebratory drink. He was single so he was by himself until a woman, Loretta (KC Ejelonu) got his attention. Loretta had just experienced a break-up and was there to numb her woes.

Later that night, Aka and Loretta turned up the heat in the backseat of his car. The two went their separate ways but for some reason Aka couldn’t get her off his mind. Three weeks later Loretta was in the same boat when she discovered she was pregnant. When she finally bumped into Aka and told him the news, he was dumbstruck because according to his life’s plan this wasn’t the time for a baby.  

Let’s Talk. This is a romantic drama where the methodical meets spontaneity. It’s character driven and centers on Aka, a somewhat nerdy type that planned every minute of his life. Women were not on his schedule but he happened to have gone off track for a night of impulsive sex.

The movie is one of those situations where a one-night stand actually turned into something meaningful. The filmmakers gave us a man that was on cloud nine because he had just won a contract and they joined him with a dispirited woman who was at her wits end with men.

At twenty-four minutes in of this movie my eyes began to flicker. The story was told at a nostalgic, wrist-slitting, pace. One of the annoying aspects were the phone calls where we heard both sides of the conversation but only saw one of the characters. The sound of the absent party wasn’t the best which made it even more difficult to sustain interest.

The major problem was story execution. It was too slow and professional editing was desperately needed. There were scenes that just dragged on unnecessarily and there was even a scene where we had to watch Aya cutting carrots. Why did we have to watch him cut carrots? We get it! He was a perfectionist but these filmmakers need to learn the word CUT!!

The confession of love at the end was so cliche. Relationships shouldn’t go from zero to one hundred so quickly – even in movie land.

Performances? Femi Jacobs carried this movie on his back. Thank God he was able to pull of this unusual character with the skill of a champion. Segun Arinze stole the one scene he was in thanks to his magnetic presence.

At the end of the day, the snooze-inducing pace ruined what could have been a decent movie. EJECT