3 Days in Malay

Thank you for your review. I had started this movie (i am about 12 mins. In) and became confused by where the action was taking place, along with the many, many anachronisms and inaccuracies in just the first few minutes. I had planned to try the rest of the movie another evening but abandoned that thought after reading your review.

Correct me if i am wrong but... Malay refers to the people and culture/language of the Malay peninsula (i.e: Malaysia). Though bad things were happening in all of the far east, conflating the Solomons campaign and specifically Guadalcanal or Operation Watchtower with Malay is just wrong. And though all the characters appear far too old for the roles they are playing, at least the main character/writer and director Louis Mandylor looks old enough to know better.

Furthermore, moviemakers have been willing to get period haircuts since everyone noticed the stupid 70's coiffes and sunglasses in the original Midway. And what's up with that overweight and unshaven sergeant speaking to an American General in what looks like a surplus North Korean military uniform. I'm surviving on a small social security check monthly but could have spent more on this film than the producers did.

Finally, as much as i appreciate roles for African Americans, the army was segregated in 1942. It would have been more accurate and perhaps more educational to show a black man in the service as a mess employee or worse.

That's where i gave up. Good luck to those that stick with it.

J. D.

Based on a true story. I dont think so First the title. Malay is a language not a country.

All the fighting in Malaya which i assume this is what they were meaning involved only British and Commonwealth troops There were no Americans involved not that that has ever stopped Hollywood before.

Lets face it large numbers of people out there who nelieve that hollywood movies are real history Saying it was based on a true story is a insult to all the allied troops incolved in the war in the far east. All i can say is don't waste your time on this rubbish There are far better films out there to watch.

Everything about this movie is wrong. In just the first few minutes there were so many historical inaccuracies that saying the story is set in WWII is outrageous. The dialogue, the uniforms, the weapons, the equipment are glaringly anachronistic. The movie isn't interesting, exciting, or watchable. It isn't even tolerable. The acting is embarrassingly bad. Why was this movie even made? It is nothing but a waste of time. I only wish I had looked up some reviews before I decided to sit down and suffer through the first half hour of horror. I couldn't take anymore. I just could not. I could only take so much punishment.

Whoever directed this elementary school project should work at Burger King because that's about the extent of their skill. I could have had more entertainment just sitting around picking my nose. This was an hour and a half of my life that I wish I could get back. Everything from the special effects to the acting was terrible. If you are reading reviews prior to watching, they will be more entertaining! I can assure you that a single episode of Saturday Night Live is better! Clearly they had no military people advising them on anything war related. The story line is atrocious and would have been worthy of a D- in grade school!

I know a fair bit about WW2 -- my dad served in the USN in Pacific and I grew up watching Victory at Sea. Over and over. Lately, I've been reading about the loss of Singapore and then the slow counter in the China-Burma Theater. Closest that Marines might have come to Malaya might have been when USS Saratoga (CV-3) was sent to train with the British Eastern Fleet in 1944. If there were any Marines aboard Saratoga.

If anything like this ever happened, it would have been British, Indian, or Australian troops holding off the Japanese.

This mess appears to have begun as a script about a company of the US Army bravely defending a fort against human-wave attacks of Indians, standing their ground in the stockade walls and hoping to hear the bugles of a cavalry regiment sent to their rescue. Of course, western forts did not have stockades, while they did have cannons, and western Indians did attack forts, and, even more, Indians did not attack in human waves.

Or, perhaps, the director got the script from John Ford's "Drums Along the Mohawk", 1939, and, randomly picked out a war and signed up some unknown actors to replace Claudette Colbert and Henry Fonda.