THE ASSASSIN

Movie Title: The Assassin
Movie Director: Tchidi Chikere
Movie Producer: Okey Ezugwu
Main Casts: Mike Ezuruonye, Stephnorah Okereke, Jimmy B, Chika Ike, Greenwood Celia.
Year of Production: 2008
Length of the film: Part 1- 1 hr 13 mins, Part 2- 1hr 13 mins
Genre- Tragedy
Film reviewer- Oyewole Jesutofunmi Ololade

PLOT SUMMARY
The movie ‘THE ASSASIN’ is about the situation of different countries on the issue of drug peddling. Shirley (Stephnorah Okereke) is the personal assistant to a drug baron Calito (Mike Ezuruonye). Calito has made several advances towards her to sleep with her after finding out her past wayward life. During this struggle she stabs herself to prevent him from sleeping with her in her own house. Lisa (Greenwood Celia) her little daughter was on her way back from school and met Calito and her mother Shirley struggling where she saw her mother stabbing herself and also when Calito shot her mother. She ran away out fear into hiding but before anything could be done her mother had died.
Stryker (Jimmy B) had just been released from prison along with Jamaal (Tchidi Chikere). He had been jailed for five years for covering up and delaying the arrest of his boss who committed an offence. He came back home in search of his wife and child whom he had left behind and had lost contact with. He began to search for his wife and kid and later found from his younger sister Juliana that his wife Shirley had been killed and his daughter Lisa was with her. He, after some investigations found out that Calito had been responsible for his wife’s death. He made up his mind to get even with him. He decided to work for him and this was possible through a plot he set up to save Calito’s new personal assistant Jeneba (Chika Ike) when she is attacked by his friend Jamaal.
An interview was conducted for Stryker by Calito himself and he began to work for him as an assassin. He killed five different people who were in the same business with Calito who were at that point in time bidding for a big contract worth millions of dollars. After working for Calito he was investigated by Jeneba as Calito thought he had ulterior motive for working with him. Unknown to Calito and the rest of the gang, Jeneba was an undercover agent for National Drug services of the Nation. After living with Stryker for some time she came with a result that Stryker was clean because she knew well that she and Stryker had the same motive for being with Calito.
After all these things happened Stryker made his way to Calito’s office to carry out his revenge on him. On getting to his office Calito denied ever knowing anyone like Shirley. After much questioning he confessed he had actually killed Shirley out of his own pleasure and began to plead for his life. Stryker finally killed Calito by shooting him in the chest. Jeneba caught up with him at the office and told him to run away before the police arrived at the scene. On their way home she told about everything that had been happening and her true identity.
This was how Calito was killed, Stryker’s life and that of his daughter was saved before anyone could catch up with him. Jeneba later took the credit for killing Calito after an investigation was carried out for 18 months.