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Mat Kilau: Kebangkitan Pahlawan (2022)
Extremely Overrated
Poor writing and storyline. Fake acting. Childish narrative on antagonist. Historically inaccurate doesnt mean the story have to be unrealistic.
Though response from the local shows that malaysian simply judge local film by fighting act and cast presentation.
Indonesian's Rudie Habibie for example does spent their plot on fighting and choreography. But good character arc, less fighting, less screaming, less preaching.
Another collection of trash from the Yusuf's.
About Time (2013)
Hes not Nolan. But he play with time
Time is the most dramatic element in life. It might be the reason of joy, sadness, disappointment, regret and sometimes happiness. Our plot of life and stories might have everything, but Richard Curtis is a genius who can always add a realistic love story to make it fine. He dont need a good weather and the street full of flowers to trigger our good feeling. This film fantastic in a heavy rain and even storm that fly the canopies.
Disconnect (2012)
Successfull dystopia without sci-fiction
This movie is really something. At first, we will see everything is just a normal scene. A scene that we might see everyday. And we dont feel unfamiliar with it.
Later on, we felt something weird. As there something which is so wrong, but still, we are so close to it, even we are part of it.
Like the moment we realize there is a killing competition in hunger games, or there is a discriminatiom of people in divergent series, or there is a death maze in the maze runner, there is something wrong with the people and societies. Something inhumane. But this time, we feel it in the our own century with no sci fiction or another apocalypse world. This movie give a great message and the message is real unlike all those fantasy and sci-fi genre!
This movie is not just something. It is one of the great mirror to the world nowadays combined with a great acting by the cast.
Downton Abbey (2010)
Beautiful
Im a huge fan of British TV Series. As for Downton Abbey, I might not be a qualified person to review this kind of series with a rich of cultures and historical potraits that keep giving you some beautiful things to picture passing through centuries.
Yet you can take my words. All the characters are well played, even in a different century, yet we can see the reality of characters from various classes with different kind of conflicts. A struggle between kindness and hatred, ideal world and the real one, the powerfull and the helpless. The mixture of those gave us a mixed feelings that keep engaging us from the series. That feeling is more than everything.
Munafik 2 (2018)
Simplistic. Fake storyline.
The fact that this movie has been highly rated by most of Malaysian has really downgrading the reputation of both, the Malaysians' taste and their film industries.
There is no debate on the cinematography and the high quality of the effects presented as those are the compulsory elements required in a movie with a horror genre. The story is consisting with the series of both, creeping and shocking scenes that make a movie as a thrilling 2 hours moment of difficulties for the viewers to breath calmly.
Yes. All those are some of the small achievement for Malaysian filming industries in the genre of horror. But not an adequate one to be rated highly if we want to speak on the rest about this movie.
The scenario taken as a background is a local village which should be good enough to potray the slice of life of the locals with a supersitious belief and the struggle to enlighten them with the truth. But, the characters and the plot of the movie is very fake. Both the protagonist and the antagonist came from out of the world with a very alien and unrealistic characters. Firstly the protagonist, 'Adam' played by Shamsul Yusuf. No matter how the ending for him in the end, he already died in the beginning of the movie with a very absurd and fake characters and dialogues. Shamsul Yusuf is trying so hard untill the struggle looks too obvious for him.
As for the antagonist, Abuja played by Nasir Bilal Khan. NBK is a great actor. But Abuja is a very bad example for an antagonist character in a movie entitled 'Munafik' (Arabic: Hypocrite). Abuja character seem to be very theoritical with the character of Abu Jahal and Abu Lahab as describe in Holy Quran and the 'Sirah' even it is truth, it is very unadopted character to be potray in world today.
Nasir Bilal Khan does not meet even the minimum requirement of the protagonist with a high caliber of a very influental and charismatic protagonist as Abuja who have a lot powers and followers as he should be. This left a big question on how nonsense for this kind of character to be a very powerful one that raise all the conflicts in the movies. If it is not Nasir Bilal Khan acting weakness, it must be the director's who is very simplistic to introduce this kind of character which add more fake element in this movie. The characters are very easy to be intepreted. A protagonist always with a good and noble actions and words, while the antagonist always a hot tempered guy with a badass face and a hard spoken voice. This is just a typical standard of Malaysian film like others.
There are so many scenes where it is too obvious that the director always trying so hard to find just another suitable situation to add more creepy moments. And it is too obvious that everything is made up only to ensure people are screaming in the cinema. Just "one more scene" And in the end it just cause "one more points" added for the obvious fakeness of the plot.
Besides the plot and the characters, the narrative of trying to relate a demonic existence with 'Dajjal' is again too simplistic. This is actually not a suprise for a SKOP Production movie created by the Yusuf Brothers, (Shafiq and Shamsul). For example in Desolasi (2016) Shafiq Yusuf tried so hard to include the narrative of Illumination, 'Dajjal', Antichrist and all those conspiracy theory even it is so remote to be potrayed in a Sci-Fiction Genre!
As for Munafik 2, the same attempt found. The filmaker should research more on the matter before simply present the ideas for the sake of having some messages and morals of the film, or just a justification required to say "this film is to enlight our people" which is as for a sceptical people like me, I will simply said it is crap and just a cheap marketing. There are so many religous intepretation toward the scripture on "Dajjal" that should be taken into consideration. Even among many of the reliable source in Islam intepret the scripture on 'Dajjal' as a more global event involving a matter of politics and the public society in a larger scale of the world, more than just a story of an exorcism in a small village. This inacurrate narrative make this film to be a comedy written with not a proper purpose or could be no purpose at all besides just causing people screaming in cinemas while some might just laughing at it.