If you want something bloody to quench your thirst, then you should see Gang of Lagos!! Gang of Lagos is a story of three childhood promising friends with dreams living in Lagos Island and how they were able to navigate through the criminal world as adults.
Tobi Bakare (Obalola) offers the purest chills as a career criminal, and he shines through this movie. Tobi has proven that he is made for the screen with his enthralling performance in this movie. The chemistry Tobi Bakare and Bimbo Ademoye shares, gives me fireworks. Even the chemistry among the friends is awesome too.
Gangs of Lagos is crazy, my heart bled when the calm, cigar munching Chike was butchered ruthlessly by hard boiled mobsters.
The revenge seeking Adesuwa Wellington is another character I won’t forget in a hurry especially, when she indiscriminately sprayed bullets in some of the scenes.
The plotting and directing are rigorously organized which makes this movie crisply enjoyable and the pictures excellent. The soundtrack is awesome, and I particularly love the Eyo chant.
Interestingly, my most memorable scene happened at the party where the Eyo and members of gang rained a hail of bullets, that is symbolic and fantastic.
Nevertheless, Gang of Lagos have some hitches I felt shouldn’t have happened in the first place. For instance, some of characters kept making mistakes with the names, Obalola was mispronounced and even Akande was called Akanni. I am of the opinion that the director shouldn’t have let this slide, it should have been corrected.
Also, I didn’t get the Isale Eko accent, it was only Zalatan that gave me that vibe and the street slangs were absent too.
Another important fact missing is lack of consistency, how come Pasuma was killed easily? If you remember, during one the street fights when he was attacked an axe couldn’t crush him. For a person like Pasuma even if the bullets would kill him, I expected a little “abarakatabra” not necessarily incantations but a nonverbal would have sorted that out.
I am of the opinion that Tobi should have appeared more dreadful than what he looked like, yes, I know he had scars and incisions on his back, but a little tweak wouldn’t be bad on his face.
The dialogue isn’t too good, I didn’t get any catchy phrase instead there are many repetitive lines, which is tiring.
Nevertheless, Gang of Lagos is the bloodiest and truly memorable Nollywood experience I have had in recent times.