Blood on Broad Street Review: A Nigerian Thriller That Actually Earns Its Twists

Blood on Broad Street opens on an unglamorous image for a thriller, a junior internal auditor at a mid-sized Lagos commercial bank squinting at a spreadsheet past midnight, noticing a pattern of reversed transactions that, individually, look like unremarkable clerical corrections but, assembled together across eighteen months, trace the outline of something far more deliberate. It is a quiet, almost procedural opening for a genre that too often reaches immediately for a dead body or a gunshot, and that patience, sustained impressively across the film's full runtime, is exactly what separates this thriller from the crowded, frequently disappointing field of recent Nollywood crime dramas.