Headline : “Bank Alert” Review: A Comedy Drama At Ease With Its Own Chaos

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One of the fears of a responsible man is his inability to cater for his family. People begin to question his masculinity when he fails in this social commitment. While there may be cultural variations in the duties of the man, his strength is constantly tested on both familial and communal grounds. The community despises the financially handicapped man as much as his family scorn him for failing to provide for them. The Akay Mason-directed Bank Alert dramatizes these sentiments through the life of its protagonist Sammy Okereke (played by the film producer and popular Nigerian comedian, Okey Bakassi), a former crypto manager who loses his job for whistleblowing on a fraudulent operation at his workplace.

Without a job and struggling to fend for his wife and children, Sammy becomes a laughing stock in the neighborhood as he accumulates debts. His wife, Jade (Kate Henshaw), becomes the breadwinner until she is fed up and leaves the home with their children. Luck smiles on Sammy when he receives an unexpected sum of 500 million naira in an account of his. But the euphoria is short lived when the supposed owner of the money, a gang leader named Modestus (Uzor Arukwe) goes after him and his family.

The film opens with a conversation between Sammy and his lawyer-friend, Uche (Kanayo O. Kanayo). Sammy laments losing a court case against his former employers who sacked him for breaching a non-disclosure agreement. Here, Sammy is portrayed as a morally upright man. But then, in a society like Nigeria, where corruption is rife and integrity is underappreciated, Sammy’s attempt to save the company from financial ruin is taken for granted. Life, the film theorizes, isn’t necessarily fair to the good-hearted. 

The comedy drama presents the contemporary issue of cybercrime, scratching the surface and granting only a superficial access into the underworld. The operations of the Modestus-led cybercriminal gang are not well defined. Frauds like Marcus (Oli Ekun) are rife in the banking sector in Nigeria, but much information is not provided on how this character has worked with Modestus.

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