Nollywood gives us action as we have never seen in Slow Country | Review

Ivie Okujaye is Kome, a single teenage mother who is drawn into a drug trafficking and prostitution ring to give her 7-year-old son the good life. When Kome decides to quit, Tuvie (Sambasa Nzeribe) who runs the ring is unhappy and will stop at nothing to keep her in his clutches.




Slow Country was upheld as Nigeria’s most believable action movie and you know what? They were absolutely right! I think the article on Linda Ikeji’s blog calling it the best action film in Africa may be a tad bit of an exaggeration but it does not take away from the fact that this was a darn good movie. For one, the action scenes are unlike any we have seen in Nigeria…ever! They were very Hollywoodesque, with bullets flying and great sound effects that sound natural unlike the knockout banger effects we are used to. Even the hand to hand combat and torture scenes were very good because they didn’t seem to be simulated and I must specially mention the blood which was splattered all over the place