In a scene where someone would recount Agesinkole’s conquest of the combined firmamental forces of witches, wizards and spirits, mentioning that the Queen is also a witch while an arrest of a thief – a severe abnormality in the value system of the town – is also being reported, the King would care more about the former and less about the latter. Perhaps even more for the latter than the former. This helplessness is at the core of the character not just for his ravaged town but for his tumbled home too. When the character played by the ever-impressive, Odunlade Adekola chastises the Queen for allowing the Prince step out of the palace, mouthing the dialogue translated to ‘you took away the only thing that makes people know that I’m not infertile’ you feel not just his pain but his helplessness. The havoc of Agesinkole not just only spans his rule it affects him in more ways it unsettles his dominion as King and raptures his manliness by taking his only son. He would loot them and sprinkle a few injuries. His first victims in the films are royals themselves who had come to celebrate with Oba Adegbite Tadenikaro. Can someone tell VFX Editor, Dimeji Ajibola that snakes do move with much more viscosity please? For someone who helmed a film, touted as Nollywood’s first sci-fi, ‘ Ratnik’, you just would want to expect more delivery with the VFX.Īnyways, Ajeromi town had the first taste of Agesinkole’s viciousness just after the town got a new king. Its execution of thieves in itself – by invoking reptiles to bite convicts – will make you cringe less for the act and more for the VFX. So much, the film’s first few scenes featured the execution of a handful of thieves.
Prior to the bandit’s invasion, Ajeromi village enjoys relative peace and maintains a strong disdain for thieves. Agesinkole is vicious spends more time on horseback than off it, throughout the film while ravaging the town leaving many dead, injured or petrified at the very least. ‘Agesinkole: The King of Thieves’ tells the story of its eponymous lead, a notorious bandit played by Femi Adebayo who wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay with Yinka Olaoye. My movie #KingOfThieves #Ogundabede in cinemas Nationwide April 8th and #Anthillstudios /tVsB8cARXy Unlike, the movie, we’re done talking about the cinematography and I’d make less reference to it moving forward. Even the close-up shots like the one that captures ‘Abegunde’ essayed by the dependable Lateef Adedimeji in the climax do not intrigue you less. It continues to mesmerize you with aerial and wide-angle shots that seek to remind you of the epic life of its protagonist, Agesinkole, and the misery that the hitherto prosperous Ajeromi town has been thrown into.
When it opens to the mountains of Akinmorin set as the fictional Ajeromi town in its introductory scenes little would you know that the DOP is setting you up for the grandeur that runs through the 110 minutes movie. Nevertheless, the cinematography elevated not just the story but the performance of the actors. However, ‘Agesinkole: King of Thieves’ isn’t a terrible film. The Directors seems to have given a brief to Director of Photography, Idowu Adedapo – known for his amazing works in King of Boys and Oloture – to lend much scale and grandeur to the film such that it drives the audience closer even if the film by its story, acting or directing fails to. But this is the magic of ‘Agesinkole: King of Thieves’. And this is weird for a review to start off, applauding the cinematography. Directors of Agesinkole: King of Thieves, Tope Adebayo and Adebayo Tijani with Niyi Akinmolayan at the premiere of the movie.
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