10 Days in Sun City

So far AY has given us 30 days in Atlanta, A Trip to Jamaica and now 10 Days in Sun City.

This is the easiest way I could come up with to explain 10 days in Sun City.

You remember that hugely successful 2017 DJ Khaled song “I’m the one” that basically just features a lot of the then trending musical acts (I’m guessing literally anyone who picked up when he called), an extremely catchy beat and a colourful video? Well in 2018 he tried to replicate that successful formula with “No brainer” and suffice to say it was not a good song. If anything, it reminded us of what was wrong with the first song and yet it was just as successful.

With 10 days in Sun City, AY pulls a DJ Khaled and gave us another sequel he was convinced we needed even though we didn’t ask for it. And remarkably, even though it wasn’t as good, it was just as successful (the movie made about 100 million in two weeks).

10 days in Sun City (directed by Adze Ugha, written by Kehinde Ogunlola and produced by Ayo Mayokun), the most recent installation into AY’s “Akpos series” tells the story of AY, his beauty queen girlfriend (Adesua Etomi Wellington) and Richard Mofe Damijo (doing an impressive portrayal of a sexy/seductive Bond villain) set in the beautiful Sun city – Johannesburg, South Africa. The movie also manages to include guest stars such as Mercy Johnson, Innocent Idibia (2face Idibia), Folarin Falana (Falz the bad guy), Fathia Balogun, Gbenro Ajibade, Uti Nwachukwu, Miguel Nunez Jr and Amanda Du Pont.

While 10 Days in Sun City is the epitome of the saying “too much of a good (?) thing is bad”, if you are a) like most Nigerians who enjoyed the previous adventures of Akpos and b) haven’t seen the movie, then you should see it because on one hand it does not remotely change the patterns of the earlier movies but rather makes a well-directed and visually pleasing upgrade of it. Easily the best part of the movie has to be performance of resident Nigerian ageless Casanova Richard Mofe Damijo as the films charismatic villain (Otunba Williams), and its beautiful setting.

However, on the other hand, it does not change the pattern of the previous movies and if like me some of its charm has worn off, you may become more acutely aware of its poor plot which depends on cheap laughs, dialogue and characterization (which forces the talented Adesua to give a one-dimensional performance). Ultimately the only reason to watch this movie like its predecessors would be for a good laugh and so before you see it, think about whether or not you found 30 days in Atlanta or A Trip to Jamaica funny. If no is your answer, maybe just watch for RMD.