![]() While character reactions and acts seem genuine, they seem poorly coordinated. The acting is touch sloppy, but this mostly speaks to directorial flaws. But Detour doesn’t quite manage to garner the level of intrigue and anticipation to make you vested in where it’s all going. Some characters are waiting to be unwrapped, a bombshell is about to go off, and you know this is all going somewhere. There are pieces to find, truths to stumble upon. What makes these flaws even more of a setback is that Detour has the ingredients for a great mystery pic. As such, when reveals start to come about, and pieces start to form, we’re left in the loop, and we don’t have enough information to identify with what we see like we should. Then there’s the case of how Detour doesn’t quite build a back story for the audience to get involved with first. Instead, Detour makes the mistake of relegating his motivations to little more than romance, constantly alludes to that as the film progresses, and doesn’t really give him any sense of closure to his truth, but instead presents the romance as a form of reward for his actions. ![]() Particular case in point is with Olumide Oworu, as Alex, whose need to discover the truth has layers that could have been explored better, and layers that could spoken to and embellished his character as a whole. ![]() Sadly, Detour does the latter, and undermines its sense of intrigue a bit. It’s one thing to centre a story on a character, it’s another to distort a story be centring one character. This movie also stars Olumide Oworu, Tomiwa Tegbe, Uzo Osimkpa, and Kanayo O. The whole plot of the movie ultimately rests on her, be it finding her for one party, and making sure she doesn’t get found for another.īut Detour doesn’t just feature Jemima Osunde, and perhaps that’s where the issue of centring her in it comes around. Even when she’s not on screen, she’s being talked about. Jide Okeke writes and direct Detour, which sees Osunde as not so much the central character of the movie, but the central point as well. But that doesn’t mean the talent has taken a step back, and the star power definitely hasn’t, qualities that mark her out as one of the names to look out for in Nollywood’s present and future, and her return to cinema screens involves a starring role in Detour. When it comes to works on screen and other similar projects, perhaps the only time Osunde’s name has been prominent were with the Rumour Has It series, and Quam’s Money, which dropped in 2020 but hit Netflix earlier this year. Jemima Osunde has taken something of a backseat in film this year, especially in terms of the cinematic releases.
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