This Is War

by 30 Seconds To Mars



KL GANGSTER : DIRECTED BY SYAMSUL YUSOF

honestly speaking, this is the first time i've watched a film directed by SYAMSUL YUSOF. what i can see is that he has a vision of himself on how his film will look like. seems like he wants a certain pattern (or genre) to be marked by his name, same goes like Hitchcock or Francis Ford Coppola. well, i'm looking forwards on what he'll do next. proceed to the film.

this is the kind of film where bloodlines joins a gang and in the end, they have to fight each other. i liked the variety of characters in this film. some, i have mix feelings of. for instance, Malek's character(played by Aaron Aziz) should be all cool and macho, he just got of from jail, serving his time. he should came out as not making himself look big and mighty. and sorry to say mr.director (Syamsul Yusof), is Shark supposed to be chinese? the accent doesn't really work for me and i've known alot of people who has a slang. so i was abit confused throughout the film. i liked Jai (Adyputra), just because he's psychotic and he made me believe he is. just the cigarette-biting-thing is abit distracting. technically, nothing stands out but it's choreography. i'm like seeing a dance move so beautifully, it knock someone's out! alot of the supporting actors were great.

storyline, i didn't really know what to concentrate on, whether the life of the ex-con, or the life of gangsterism. to concern about technical and action sequence perhaps?

this film reminded me too much of a few Hong Kong films like Young and Dangerous. maybe next time we'll have our own style of Malaysian Gangster.

p/s: just a personal opinion. =)