[Movie] A Different Path, But Still Worth Following: ''King of Thieves 2'' Review

After I finished watching and enjoying part one of Agesinkole (King of Thieves), I decided to watch part two yesterday, and in my expectations, I was anticipating that the movie should continue exactly where it ended. Instead, I was a bit lost when I started watching, and I had to check again if I was watching the right movie. But of course, it was the right movie, and it hit me that the filmmaker, or the writer, was not trying to give us what happened in the first part. They were just just trying to build on it from another perspective entirely.

I won't say it was better or worse because it was built around some new characters, a new king and his family, and how he ruled his people. Yes, the first movie was centered on Agesinkole and how he terrorized some villages and how he was conquered. Buying this new part was centered around a new reign and how he returned towards the ending, which made the movie alive for me again. Because just like I said in my part one review, I like everything about him.

Part two started with a new character that was explaining to some groups of people how Agesinkole ruled for some years, some good he did, and the bad things too. And that was linked directly to how some government officials also terrorized their people by embezzling money without doing anything meaningful, and when the citizens protest against bad governance, they send the police to shoot the protesters.

It moved to the next scene of a new kingdom and a new king. How this new king was innocent at first, but as time went on, he was corrupted by some of his chiefs, police officers, and some other corrupt people in his kingdom, which shows bad leadership and how unfairly he treated his people. Because of the gold mining that the kingdom had been benefiting from, the king and other chiefs decided to privatize it without letting the people know, and they were sharing the money among themselves.

Those who wanted to find out how the money was being spent, they locked them up and even killed some of them. One thing that made me like this movie was that the new part was not focused on a new story entirely; they still made some references to the first part, especially how they made me realize that other kings were not spending the gold mining money on their private needs; rather, they used it to develop their community.

This part two was built around greed, leadership, past experience, fear, and love. Which brings me to the love aspect. The new king's daughter fell in love with the son of the king's barber, which sounds ridiculous to the kingdom if they hear. But these two made it private for as long as possible.

Towards the ending, there was a bit of division in the kingdom because the king's daughter went missing on the day she was supposed to carry a sacrifice that would bring peace to the kingdom. Everyone was unsettled, and it led to the death of the king's barber and his wife because the king thought it was their son who kidnapped his daughter. But it wasn't so.

The scene that stood out for me was when Agesinkole returned after he had been locked up for a lot of years and was freed by one of the king's chiefs through a ritual she made. Agesinkole returned with full force and revealed all the atrocities of what the king and his chiefs had been doing, and he decided to punish all of them, which brought a restoration to the kingdom. What I noticed was that in part one, Agesinkole terrorized, and in part two, he brought restoration and dealt with those who did terrible things in the kingdom that he was in.

But above all, what made this movie worth watching is the fact that it is about what is happening in our society today, about how evil becomes stronger, about how money has corrupted a lot, and about how few people take responsibility if they have the upper hand. Though it is in a way different from part one, I appreciated it for the different direction it took. I would recommend watching both films because they complement each other, and I would give this sequel a 7.5/10.

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