The FBI agent runs towards a group of kids on a school playground, flies into an unnecessarily dramatic leap, snatches an explosive package from the hands of a child mid-air, lands an awkward roll on the ground, and launches the package far away into the air to save everyone’s lives.
The set piece may not pack the same punch as Hollywood star, Tom Cruise, climbing a 2,000-foot cliff just for kicks as Ethan Hunt in 2000’s Mission: Impossible 2 or any of Jackie Chan‘s tortuously gruelling film stunts; but it was one of the most exciting sequences among its peers by Nollywood standards at the time — I was smitten.
I started watching Nigerian home videos around the time of Saint Obi’s rise and his face on any of the iconic posters from that era was a promise of excitement.
