Progressive Tailors Club Review…great initiative, poor screenplay

Year: 2021
Genre: Relations, Career, Comedy
Cast: Jaiye Kuti, Rachel Oniga, Femi Adebayo, Kolawole Adeyemi, Adedimeji Lateef, Bolaji Ogunmola, Uzor Arukwe, Beverly Osu, Funnybone, Lizzy Jay, Blessing Jessica Obasi, Imoh Eboh, Chris Iheuwa
Director: Biodun Stephen
Writer: Amaka Chidioka, Bunmi Ajakaiye, Yusuf Carew
Cinematographer: Lanre Are
Summary: The Progressive Tailors Club (PTC) is on the verge of receiving a big donation from a politician, however, they must first come to a consensus to elect their next president

Overall Rating: Water
PTC was a great initiative that possessed all the elements to impress us, but the inferior screenplay failed to transport us on a ride
~Yours To Explore~

Delicious
—The costume design team worked very efficiently to deliver great attire for the movie. After all, we’re talking about professional tailors so we were looking forward to fashionable designs and were pleasantly served😍
—The bright color grading worked well to highlight the characters’ vibrant and versatile attitudes, e.g. we saw noisy and nosy tailors, submissive tailors, arrogant tailors, tribalist tailors, and so on
—Innovative way to tell the story by dividing it into the actual agenda points of the meeting. PTC’s slogan was “unity in progress”…Let these words sink in for a bit 😆
It was highly evident that unity was needed now (not in a gradual way) for the members and the club to prosper: United we stand and divided we fall

Bland
—The screenplay, the screenplay, the screenplay…not really gripping.
It was an uncontrollable pandemonium. We understand that our African meetings get loud and crazy but there still needed a way to properly direct the movie’s trajectory. The climax was plain and didn’t make us look forward to more
—The majority of the characters overacted, even Uzor Arukwe (playing Mazy Chibuzor), who is quite talented, did not deliver
—The single meeting location which covered the major part of the movie was monotonous with the cinematographer filming from the same angles 🙁
—-Audio engineering wasn’t appropriately controlled, making the volume level fluctuate too much