Afeez Oyetoro (born 20 August 1963) is a Nigerian comedian, theatre actor and artist popularly known as "Saka".[2][3][4][5] His parents had eight children, of whom he is the fifth. He is currently married and has three children.[6] He is also a lecturer of theatre arts at one of Nigeria's leading higher institutions, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education.
Afeez Oyetoro was born on 20 August 1963 in Iseyin Local Government Area of Oyo State, in southwestern Nigeria.[7][8] Afeez obtained Bachelor's and master's degrees in Theatre arts from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) and the University of Ibadan (UI) respectively. He is currently a doctorate degree holder from the prestigious University of Ibadan in Oyo State.[9]
Afeez Oyetoro is known for his clown role in Nollywood movies and has featured in several Nigerian movies.[10] He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Theatre Art at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education.[11] He was also featured as the main character in a 2013 MTN advert where he advertised the new Number Porting Feature introduced by the Network Providers in 2013. This advert in particular was known as the "I don port o" MTN advert. In 2016, Afeez Oyetoro appeared in The Wedding Party and the comedy-crime/heist film Ojukokoro (Greed).[12] He was recently elected as vice president of the Golden Movie Ambassadors Association of Nigeria (TGMAAN) in 2022.[13]
His family's background remains private, but he lost his mother, aged 92 in 2019, while his father, who lived to 98, was a significant influence in his life. Born with a lighter complexion and often called Albino due to his unique features, including a diastema, he embraced the nicknames, considering them advantageous and contributing to positive experiences in his life.[17]
As the recent release of the John Wick Chapter 3 trailer proves, the action movie is definitely a genre of which fans can't get enough. Over the last 30-plus years, the genre has evolved alongside the technology Hollywood employs to execute it -- to make the product that sells out multiplexes. That keeps you and your friends quoting their best lines long after the credits roll.
Franchises like Indiana Jones, Lethal Weapon and Die Hard owned the '80s. Terminator 2 pioneered CG in the early '90s, which helped pave the way for Neo and Morpheus to Bullet Time us through The Matrix. And in the middle of all that, action stars like Harrison Ford carved out the "Thinking Man's" action movie for adults (see: The Fugitive and Ford's Jack Ryan films) while Sylvester Stallone found new ways to flex muscles and drop quips before dropping bad guys in movies like Cliffhanger. Long story slightly less long: The years have given us lots of explosions, car chases, and an embarrassment of gun fights. And while some of these impressed us then... now? Not so much. But here are the action flicks that still hold up today, that prove that a mix of exceptional craft and even better storytelling are timeless.
As a high-heeled assassin with as much morality as she has bullets, Anne Parillaud owns every scene she is in as the titular character. Almost 30 years later, her take on the vulnerable-but-deadly femme fatale is still an all-timer in the Female Action Hero rankings.
The boy, his new Terminator, and his jacked Mom struggle to stop the liquid metal T-1000 and they do so by way of some of the most emotionally-charged stakes in a sci-fi action movie ever. Intense action, compelling characters, and resonate themes make this game-changer timeless.
If there's a better way to dispatch an action movie heavy than via knife to the eye, we don't wanna know about. Steven Seagal's best action movie, Under Siege is also one of the best films to come out of the early '90s "Die-Hard-on-a-insert-confined-location-here" crop of action film entries. Set on a naval battleship, Seagal plays the ship's cook (with Navy SEAL training, because reasons) when the bad guys -- lead by Tommy Lee Jones -- come to steal some missiles.
Certain choices are more dated than others, but the film holds up now thanks to director Andrew Davis' deft and understated handling of the material and Jones' scene-stealing performance. His work here with Davis set the stage for their reunion a year later, in The Fugitive.
Expert climber Gabe Walker (Stallone) resurfaces after failing to save his friend's lover from a climbing mishap. He's back on the mountain range as John Lithgow's hammy bad guy crashes a U.S. Gov't plane full of cash after a very inventive (and mostly in-camera) mid-air heist goes bad. Soon, Walker is John McClane-ing over mountains, in caves, and under frozen lakes -- all so he can drop a helicopter on Lithgow's baddie. Before Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Cliffhanger was the movie to beat when it came to fights involving choppers on top of and around mountains.
Even after 26 years, we still don't know how this guilty pleasure's "Three Seashells" work. Doesn't matter -- we still can't get enough of this satirical sci-fi actioner which has only gotten better with age (don't @ me). This underrated '90s joint pits super cop John Spartan (Stallone) against master criminal Simon Phoenix (the scene-stealing Wesley Snipes) when the two are thawed out from cryo-prison in a futuristic, Utopia-y "San Angeles."
Here, swearing has been outlawed, everyone must "be well" to each other, and Taco Bell is considered fine dining because it survived the Franchise Wars. The film's sense of humor is only surpassed by its impressive production design and climatic showdown between Spartan and Phoenix. If you haven't seen Demolition Man, you're doing life wrong.
The first -- and only -- movie based on a TV show to be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, The Fugitive was the little movie that could in August 1993. It reigned supreme at the box office; audiences couldn't get enough of Harrison Ford's Richard Kimble on the run from Tommy Lee Jones' U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard as Kimble struggles to find the one-armed man who murdered his wife. Plagued with last-minute script rewrites and on-the-fly solutions while shooting, it is amazing this movie turned out to be as perfect as it is -- thanks in large part to Jones' Oscar-winning performance.
Each minute of screentime has exactly the right amount of whatever it needs to succeed, to keep audiences either at the edge of their seats or white-knuckling their arm rests. Nearly three decades after its release, it still does. They don't make movies like this anymore.
More than just "Die Hard-on-a-bus," Jan de Bont's sleeper hit from the summer of 1994 is the perfect popcorn entertainment. Thanks to a significant story polish from an uncredited Joss Whedon, Speed delivers nothing but thrills and laughs and two insanely likable performances from hero Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, in a star-making turn. It invests its very clean set-up -- there's a bomb on an LA city bus that will go off if the bus' speed drops below 50 -- with an effortless amount of increasingly-intense set pieces with nothing short of the highest of stakes. If the movie loses gas (no pun intended), it's when (25-year-old-spoiler alert incoming) our heroes safely get off the bus and onto a runaway subway car. But up until that point, Speed is more than worth the price of admission.
Harrison Ford's second outing as Jack Ryan is, hands-down, his best. With a storyline involving the White House's covert (read: illegal) war against Colombian drug cartel that still carries relevancy today, CIA analyst Ryan finds himself caught in the middle of this conflict -- if the cartels don't kill him, the powers that be in Washington just might.
Ford excels at playing the everyman who can throw a punch, or in this case, fling himself clear from an exploding car. The film's a slow-burn, building up to a mid-point suburban SUV attack that is a nailbiter that more than holds up even now.
Michael Bay's first action movie is free of the bloated excess and undisciplined pacing from most of his later output -- we're looking at you, Every. Single. Transformers. Movie. The goal here is to mainline to the audience straight-up action movie thrills and two charismatic AF performances from Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
The stars play two Miami police officers involved in a case that requires slick cars, lots of slow-motion shots, and explosions to solve. While Independence Day is often credited with making Will Smith, well, Will Smith, Bad Boys put him on the launch pad for leading man status.
The best of the Die Hard sequels, With a Vengeance teams Bruce Willis' permanently hung-over cop John McClane with law-abiding citizen Zeus (Samuel L. Jackson) as they try to stop a thug (Jeremy Irons) from blowing up New York City on his way to stealing a ton of gold from the Federal Reserve. This threequel retrofitted a then-popular spec script, "Simon Says," into a Die Hard movie -- bringing back the original's director, John McTiernan, to help ground the proceedings in some sense of believability.
Gone are the "bad things going down on Christmas" trappings, as McClane and Zeus race through NYC streets during a blistering summer heat wave. The end result is a sure-plotted actioner that marks the last time John McClane appeared in anything resembling a good movie.
Robert Rodriguez's scrappy El Mariachi earned him a chance to upgrade that film's story to fit a decent-ish Hollywood budget. Casting then-white hot Antonio Banderas as a guitar player with a case full of guns and a vendetta to collect, Rodriguez set out to make his mark on the genre and in studio-filmmaking. The final product is a mixed bag; Desperado has inventive gun fights to spare, but the character development hits the same one or two notes throughout.
That it succeeds at all is a testament to Banderas' charisma, for any scene that lacks enough emotional weight to hold up, he more than makes up for with a look or gesture. And score bonus for this movie introducing us to Salma Hayek -- who would go on to reprise a version of this role in the pseudo-sequel Once Upon a Time In Mexico.
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