Anwar: The Untold Story

The storyline is about Anwar's turbulent political career from 1993, when he was appointed to be the finance minister, to his termination in 1998.

The pace is slow, with poor and disorganized sequential sub-plots.

I found that the director is NOT GOOD at storytelling! A political movie could be made in a more impactful manner with more emotional moments. However, you don't see any of these! It remains flat all the way from the beginning to the end.

Besides, the transition from one scene to another is very WEAK! It goes on too abruptly without properly addressing one scene to another. Initially, I thought that some scenes might be censored by the Film Censorship Board of Malaysia. However, as time passes, I see almost every scene-transition happen in this manner. This is rather unacceptable!

As such, audiences may find the sub-plots scattered everywhere and look messy, in fact.

Also, the sub-plots lack depth. Everything is touch-n-go, as a result, audiences could hardly see the seriousness of the corruption and how it may threaten the country and people, why there is a need to take it seriously!?

It's more like an essay written by a student who has a lot of points but does not know how to structure them nicely in the right sequence with proper depth. One could hardly connect one point to another to get a good overview of the overall problems and outcomes, although one knows there is a problem somewhere.

I gave 3.0 out of 10. It's flat and boring, without much impactful emotion! As said, the director doesn't know how to use the right movie-language to connect and engage with audiences, leaving us with nothing after the movie.

Its a like it or not kind of biography movie with the most awkward editing. It got me dizzy by hopping from scenes to scenes with poor interscene transitions. Despite the flaws , i really enjoyed the movie taking me back to the 80s and 90s with great display of emotional acting by Acha. I love the way some of the political figures impersonation by the actors. The movie ended abruptly letting viewers wonder if there is more to come. This may not be a great biography movie but it may just perfectly filled in the gaps of Malaysian untold political history. Reformasi! - a phrase long forgotten or the beginning of a new dawn ?

It looks like a fictional story about Anwar Ibrahim and director not being fair to show historical value at that the time. More consultantion required by conducting more interviews with ex politicians and people. I feel it doesnt fair to rate this movie 7/10 because i value the facts and truth, and im not fan boy to Anwar Ibrahim. I just an observant to historical value at that time. I feel, this movie is not good enough maybe someone must rewrite again and remake this film. Sorry guys, i rather telling the truth then try to be 100% fan boy to Anwar Ibrahim. Please don't bash me for giving lower rating.

While the movie is not good enough for any international film competition, the actings are okay and the script is good since it's based on true events. It's the most special movie made because Anwar is the present prime minister of Malaysia and it tells the story of why Anwar was jailed for going against prime minister Mahathir while he was the deputy prime minister. This movie was completed before Anwar won in the last election and become the prime minister. It leaves me thinking, why is Mahathir totally silent over the movie? Why didn't Mahathir take legal action against the producer and director? Isn't this the best proof that what's told in the movie must be true?

I went to watch this movie without prior reading any reviews about it. Maybe i should write in points form to simplify things

LIKE I felt the movie would be more interesting to watch if the focus of the story is on Azizah. Love her spirit, dedication and determination being the family caretaker when Anwar was in jail.

I like the touching opening scene as i remembered vividly what happened in 1998. It was tense and emotional. LOVE IT.

DONT LIKE one thing, i feel Farid Kamil should take the inititave to loose some weight prior the shooting. I remembered anwar being bit skinny and not well built.