The Ghost and the Tout

Cast: Toyin Abraham, Femi Adebayo, Chioma Akpotha, Sambasa  Nzeribe, Dele Odule, ChiwetalaAgu, Kaffi, Omowunmi Dada, Murphy Afolabi, RonkeOshodi, Bimbo Ademoye, Bayray Mckwinzu, Lasisi Elenu

Ratings: PG13

Genre: Comedy

Directed by: Toyin Abraham

Written by: Toyin Abraham

Time: 105mins

Nollywood is on the move and producers are stepping up, creating better stories than ever before. This quantum leap is evident in Mike Ezuruonye ‘s  “Divorce is not allowed”  and also Toyin Aimakhu ‘s Al“Alakada Reloaded”  (NB: I didn’ t see this movie because of the negative reviews I heard at the time it was released).

I heard this one was much better so I took the risk,  even though people complained that it had a similar storyline to BB Sasore ‘s  Banana Island Ghost, it was still worthwhile. It has a nice storyline that was evenly paced  by  a brilliant cast

They did put out a better show this year, with a due diligent check, nice storyline, better cast and paying more attention to details, but they did drag some scenes and I felt some were absolutely not necessary. I wasn’t disappointed as she impressed me a little this time; I sincerely feel this is a movement in the right direction, not there but we would get there soon. A nice simple story of a girl who mistakenly saw the masquerade one night and afterwards, she started relating with ghosts. They had a nice twist with the comedy and suspense, most of us couldn’t actually tell who the killer of Mike was, till the very end thumbs up to the producer; I also thought it was Mike’s Fathers friend who plotted his death, but I was wrong too.

This movie was written and produced by Toyin Aimakhu and was directed by Charles Uwagbai. They did put out a better storyline this time, by paying attention to details and making the movie more realistic and compelling.

Most fans enjoyed it and could relate to the possibility of the happenings. They featured a lot of “A” list artist, comedian and actors, which made it very interesting.

They had nice costumes and makeup and separate worlds of the Ghetto and wealthy areas looked real. They have recorded a whopping N30m in the first one week of release, despite competition from the Avengers: Infinity War and Deadpool.

The Ghost and the tout started calmly and then progressed swiftly into the action-packed side of the movie. ToyinAimakhu who was known as Israel was the lead actor who was bred and bought up the Ghetto. She was a tout who really didn’t have anything much doing except roaming about and looking for small deals, to make a living. She had a boyfriend in the Ghetto who was always around her, he also had nothing much doing. To Mike who was from a very wealthy family, he had a boy he picked up and helped, his name was Dayo, he made him his personal assistant and told him about every business deal he went into. Little did he know that he best friend “called Padi” was the trouble he would face in his life, Dayo had become so jealous of Mike his friend and couldn’t control his envy to the point of almost plotting evil against his best friend. Mike was killed along the line a few weeks to his wedding to his newfound sweetheart.

A lot of fingers pointed to his former girlfriend who couldn’t forgive him for leaving her and to his dad’s friend who had threatened to deal with his dad over a business deal that went bad.

They were all wrong as the least expected person was the culprit. So Isila who was from the Ghetto woke up one night and wanted to leave her boyfriend’s house forgetting that, the masquerades were going to be out on a rampage and no female was allowed to see them and go scot free. She saw the masquerades and that was how she started relating with ghosts. She was the only one who could see Mike and he pleaded with her to send a message to his parents and Fiancée, he wanted Isialla to also help him unveil who his killer was. She was extremely very helpful and must fans were glad to see justice severed because of her intervention. She did help Mike find the killers and they were all sentenced to prison, the movie ended on a good not, which made fans happy.

To my verdict I would say this movie deserves a 5/10, it’s a huge improvement from where they started from, this time they paid better attention to detail and had a slightly improved storyline, although similar to some previous movies. They did drag some scenes and I felt some aspects of the movie were totally irrelevant. For the Nigerian comedy movie lovers, you could give this a try and don’t forget to let us know, what you think about this new movie by Toyin.

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