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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Peter Bradshaw

Gone Too Far review – freewheeling south-London comedy

Gone Too Far
Freewheeling energy … Gone Too Far

Director Destiny Ekaragha and screenwriter Bola Agbaje make their feature debut with this comedy about south London teenagers and black British identity. There are some funny touches and moments of freewheeling energy, but it is too broad, with acting and directing styles that are a little like afternoon TV. Yemi (Malachi Kirby) is a young guy born and raised in Peckham who is nervous about meeting his older brother for the first time. Iku (OC Ukeje) has just arrived from Nigeria, an ebullient figure whose habits and way of talking Yemi finds deeply annoying. Their personal tensions form part of a larger local malaise, with Jamaicans disliking Africans on the grounds that these were the people who sold out them to the white slavers. The film may be uncertain and undeveloped, though there is potential: I liked the embarrassment of Yemi and Iku having a deafening argument in, of all places, the library.

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