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.

The acting is terrible and the dialogue is horrendous. The scene set ups are in a word abysmal while the uniforms, weaponry, personnel interactions and just about everything else is time period incorrect. I think the ONLY thing correct about this movie is that during World War II the United States was at war with Japan. Whoever gives this Movie even a mediocre review Should seriously consider getting a mental health review. Whoever financed this movie either needed a losing tax break or promised someone they could get them into a movie and this was the only way they could do it. To say don't waste your time would be an understatement.

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.

Go into the street, find the filthiest beggar, and get spit in the face. This will more worthwile than watching this garbage.

I guess someone really wanted a paid vacation in Thailand, got himself a ChatGPT script, and somehow found some chumps to invest in a fake movie.

I'm ashamed to say I sat through this whole insult to humanity, but here's a few details:

• dialogue is abysmal and nonsensical
• all the "japanese" are clearly from southeast asia.

• peasants from southeast asia saunter through a battlefield that's not even on the same continent
• the machine guns are made of rubber, you can actually see the barrels flexing.

• acting is... just... just stop

Utter trash.

The title says it all. A one star general, inside, wearing a helmet with a chin strap...and a cinched waist on his BDUs. Say what? What a lame excuse for a tribute to the men who experienced those three days in Malay. The characters were one dimensional caricatures, GI Joe figures staged beyond the realm of credibility. I have been watching war flicks for 60 years and my "embrace the suck" meter pegged out on this peace of tripe. Rotten Tomatoes gave this film a 91%. I'm gobsmacked. The set staging looked, uh, staged. I am loath to find anything to recommend watching this production. A handle bar mustache is hard to imagine as a reasonable sight in any combat theater. The list can go on ad nauseam, but I won't lest my comments loose their punch.