KL Gangster

First of all, I'll say that this is just another bad movie. When you watch a film that is more concerned with executing some bad rip-offs of those old, old action films with sound effects, than giving a complicated plot and at least some decent characters to sympathize with, well, you get another bad film. Not to say that I like lambasting the Malaysian film industry, but seriously, this movie really sucks.

However, I'd like to praise the director for one thing. Although he did not portray the criminal underworld of Kuala Lumpur as realistically as expected, he did do some research into how the characters might talk and act. Sadly to say, KL Gangster is a film with potential, however, give it good ol' stereotypical heroes and bad guys with no moral complexity whatsoever, a really light and rushed plot in which almost nothing matters except for the combat and a few hastily done dramatic scenes... well, the point is, don't watch it.