The Man for the Job Review…could have been a groundbreaking film😭

Year: 2022
Genre: Business, Money, Technology, Drama
Cast: Uzor Arukwe, Ini Edo, Temi Otedola, Ibrahim Suleiman, Alibaba, Nosa Rex, Tope Olowoniyan
Director: Niyi Akinmolayan
Writer: Niyi Akinmolayan
Cinematographer: Niyi Akinmolayan
Summary: Joseph, working as a part-time rideshare driver, gets the golden opportunity to help a young tech girl; this leads to some complications when a system hack arises

Overall Rating: Water
Argh…😭 The Man for the Job could have been THAT groundbreaking tech movie in Nollywood cinema!!
It really hurts that production wasn’t delivered in a meticulous way…
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Delicious
—Let’s just admire Ini Edo (playing Joseph’s wife) for a while; she has never looked this gorgeous! The hair and make-up teams executed a fine look on her 😍
—Temi Otedola (playing Zina, the tech girl) was much more comfortable in front of the camera this time than in Citation
—The costume design team provided us with a good understanding of each character’s personality, e.g. Zina’s techie t-shirts were fun to see as they emphasized her love for IT, and Tega’s suits & turtlenecks displayed his conservative and serious demeanor

Bland
—We were truly cheering for The Man for the Job to blow us away with a powerful screenplay, buuuuuut the scene sequences were quite incoherent missing some logic with an editing work that fell short.
Unless we missed it, why did Joseph call himself Barnabas? What was the purpose of Joseph’s car running into an accident? The dialogues weren’t solid enough to give a deeper knowledge of the characters’ lifestyles, Mr. Lai & his motives, etc.
—Sound engineering, sound effects, color grading, photography, visual effects, and score weren’t polished to the point that they obstructed the movie’s flow
—There was no dynamic chemistry among the actors 😖 (except for Joseph’s wife and her friend Emeka).
For instance, Joseph and his wife couldn’t relate to their children, plus Joseph and his best friend Tega (Ibrahim Suleiman) had no camaraderie together
—The Man for the Job didn’t really send an overt lesson on the tech world or the way to do business.
We saw a company in distress and the hasty investigation to track down the hacker, then that was it