Synopsis: This movie tells the story of a rich kid, Oscar (played by Jim Iyke) whose passport gets stolen by thugs. He must find his passport so he can travel to the UK to visit his sick mum. Oscar is forced to work with a “ghetto babe” named Kopiko (played by Mercy Johnson) in order to find his missing passport.
I don’t have a lot to say about this movie because it was quite a let down.
The storyline was just there, this is not a story that should have made it to the cinema. They made no attempt to elevate the story by adding depth or character, so it did not work for me. Passport was about 2 hours of noise, repetitive scenes, and poor dialogue. Very bland movie.
Acting and casting did not work. This movie featured some of Nollywood’s “OGs” like Mercy Johnson, Jim Iyke and Adedimeji Lateef. Unfortunately, these talented actors did not have much to work with and as such, even their presence could not help this movie.
In my opinion, casting was not right. I know they thought Mercy Johnson acting like a thug would be the highlight but that stuff is old already, I cringed all through. As for Jim Iyke, he was not the right person to play Oscar. Oscar was supposed to be a naive, spoilt and entitled rich young guy with a foreign accent. Oscar was someone who was unfamiliar with street life, who still had to rely on his sister or his uncle to send money to him to pay his club bills. Jim Iyke tried but he was just too mature for the role. A younger actor should have been given the role and Jim Iyke could have played the role of Oscar’s uncle instead.
I should mention that Zubby delivered on his role as terminator (the chairman of the touts). He has played the same role so many times in movies, I’m sure he can deliver it in his sleep.
Lastly on this point, someone should please help me whisper to Adedimeji Lateef that he is big, he is up there and as such, nothing justifies him taking on the role of a waka pass hoodlum in this kind of production. He was a very loud waka pass and I think he basically took a role that was meant for Broda Shaggi and that is unacceptable.
This movie was not funny and I was bored. The characters were not interesting, they were just running around in circles, repeating very dry jokes, struggling to look, sound and act ghetto.
Their outfits and the movie setting did not look authentic at all, they wanted to show us the ghetto but none of it looked real. The restaurant they used, the police station, the house, nothing worked. Even Kopiko’s mother that was supposed to be severely ill did not even look sick. She was just lying on the bed, she could not even muster a shiver for someone who had high fever.
I did not understand the end of this movie, Oscar did not eventually travel to see his mother again, he stayed back to take care of Kopiko because she got shot and I was wondering why? Were they trying to say that he was liking Kopiko? Why was he offering to take her for vacation outside the country? As what? Were they trying to say they somehow fell in love or what? There were no instances were such emotions could have formed, they should just have shook hands and gone their seperate ways but I don’t get what the director was trying to communicate. It was a silly way to end the movie.
No offense to skit makers who are doing amazing work but this movie just proves to us that feature-length movies can’t survive on the ingredients for a standard Instagram skit. This movie could and should have been a skit.
It was an absolute waste of my time and money.
Rating: 3/10
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