Nigeria, March 7 -- In an era when Nollywood is stretching its limbs toward the global market, 'Son of the Soil' (2025) arrives with quite a bit of intrigue.

Though initially released in December 2025, the movie only became available on the international streaming platform Netflix on 1 March 2026.

A UK-Nigeria co-production directed by Chee Keong Cheung and written by and starring Razaaq Adoti, the film clearly wants to be Nigeria's John Wick.

The action movie featured all the stunts and gimmicks of the genre, but it didn't make an impression.

Instead, what audiences get is a muscular but uneven revenge drama, a film brimming with ambition, kinetic violence, and Lagos grit, yet weighed down by thin characterisation and a script that m...