Just in Time, a Kenyan rom-com debuted on Netflix a few weeks ago and made it to the top ten most watched shows on the streaming service. Just in Time stars Kenyan actress Sarah Hassan and Mawuli Gavor alongside Stycie Wanjiru and Pierra Makena among others. Produced by Nigerian film makers Dolapo Adeleke, it is set in a colourful Nairobi lush with Jacaranda and bougainvillea.
Just in Time is as a feel good as it gets, with a warm set design and good looking cast, it will keep you glued just to enjoy how well thought out the shooting was.
Plot
Sarah Hassan is Muthoni, a bookstore clerk with a type A personality whose carefully planned life gets turned upside down when she loses her job and has to take care of smart mouthed niece. Ghanaian actor Mawuli Gavour plays Kobena, a photographer in town for business who meets Sarah Hassan in fortuitous circumstances that involve some lost house keys. Eve De Souza plays her new boss who wants to turn the bookshop business into a spa business, as if there are not enough of those in Kilimani.
The meet cute between Muthoni and Kobena is way cute and the chemistry between the two actors carries the story along. Some things were a bit of a stretch, like Muthoni leaving her niece with stranger in order to go secure the bag. The Kenyan mom in me was shaking my head in disbelief! Still, the movie is a light enjoyable watch, the type I like to refer to as call popcorn for the brain.
Rating: 6/10