Now, the 2021 Indonesian movie "Devil On Top" is labeled as a romantic comedy. And I have to admit that when I sat down to watch it, I was expecting that type of movie.
And imagine my surprise when there wasn't even an ounce of comedy in the movie. Nay, this was a romantic drama without anything that was even remotely funny in nature. So this movie from writers Rayhan Dharmawan and Anggy Umbara was somewhat of a swing and a miss in terms of entertaining me.
The storyline in the movie was adequate enough, but it was slowed down by a sluggish narrative, rather dull and one-dimensional characters and some rather clumsy dialogue. And that made it rather difficult to get submerged into the storyline and take the movie overly serious.
Given my limited exposure to the Indonesian cinema, then I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in "Devil On Top". It should be noted that they had a fair enough ensemble of actors and actresses, just a shame that they had so very little to work with in terms of script, characters and dialogue.
Sit down to watch "Devil On Top" with the intention of watching a romantic drama, and you might not be as disappointed with director Anggy Umbara's 2021 movie as I was.
The production value in the movie was good, I will say that much.
My rating of "Devil On Top" lands on a four out of ten stars.
