The King of Boys – The Return of the King.

Ajuwon Rodiat
Film making is a tough enterprise and when Kemi Adetiba described herself as the Bruce Lee of film making, she wasn’t lying. Her movies and music videos are masterpieces. Her latest movie, King of Boys is testament to that. It is how she made us love the villain and excuse it because she lost her children. What about all the people she has killed? Did they fall from heaven? Ah ah… let’s get to it. A villain We hate to hate.
You know how you watch a movie and you become shocked when an unexpected situation happens, you squint your face, become overly excited or even cover your mouth at certain realizations? Ah! Yes that feeling, all these emotions, you would experience well except you are a fun sponge.
Perhaps I should proceed this with one of the proverbs of Sola Sobowale : ‘Omode o mo Ogun, o n pe ni efo’ – A child doesn’t know herbs, he refers to it as a vegetable’ – This was the vibe for the movie, because I did not expect it, I knew or I thought it was going to be good but this good? I didn’t think so.
You know how there’s usually a hook at the end of an episode in our abroad movies, yes! That hook was used, it wasn’t as catchy as I would have loved but it’s really a good start, considering the bar Nollywood movie has been placed on. I think they’re on to the next level now. it is worth the hype I tell you.
This movie started with the tough front displayed by the King of Boys and the fear of everyone who has wronged her. It also showed how regretful she feels Over the loss of her children: she whipped herself with rod and pepper guys!
The movie featured betrayal, greed, strength of motherhood, owning your success and I see the game of chess play through the movie. They tried to bring down the King’s knight(our Ade Tiger, I’m sure people started loving him) but couldn’t buy his loyalty, it portrayed that the king was losing all her knights when in fact she was in charge of the game.
The body language, the eloquence, the embodiment of character that makes it hard to differentiate Sola Sobowale from Eniola Salami or Nse ikpe Etim from The First Lady, this was displayed by 80% of the character in this movie and a big shout out to Toni tones, the conscience play of Eniola salami was perfect! She represented us in our daily lives and how there are many layers to us as human beings and we try to put up our best front. I think everyone needs Toni Tones to help put us back to our focus once in a while.
There is a character I love so much, I think he’s my favorite ‘Aare’ played by Akin Lewis- He was the unbothered bothered politician who wants to stay alive as much as possible but is also a key player and has known Eniola Salami the longest. he is such a funny character, he gave us the comic relief even though he wasn’t exactly trying to be funny. He’s such a good actor.
There are however loose ends and unanswered questions as to how the King won back ‘Makanaki’ who all of a sudden rose from the dead? How did he survive? How did he come to trust the King of Boys again? What bargain was made for her to give him the crown? And what is our business with the journalist who took a lot of our screen time arguing back and forth with his wife? And what happened to Aare?
I think this is to keep people on their toes and know that the series is far from done. Brace yourselves as you watch this masterpiece.