I have the novel, I bought it long long time ago after I heard that there is a movie adaptation is coming soon. I plan to read the novel first before watching this movie. As time goes by, I'm surely read a tons of books but not this one, so after this movie is release a few days ago, I'm in dilemma. Whether to read the novel first or just watch this movie. Because the novel is quite thick and I have a lot of things to do in my own life. So I just watch the movie first, I will read the novel later (maybe months, years later I guess haha). What can I say, I guess the director and the screenwriter tried their best to include all the important stuff or scene from the novel, they ended up pack it too much and we moviegoer who never read the novel might find it hard to understand what is going on actually. I think if they just focus on M. Nasir VS Faizal Hussein issue, it will be better. But instead, to stay faithful on the original novel I guess, it became quite a chaos. I think novel like this that have a lot of important scene will be better if they adapt to miniseries. With movie, you don't have much time unless the novel just have 1 straight mission to follow. Looks like I need to read the novel to understand this movie better. What I don't like is the background music is too ambitious and loud, totally not really corresponding with the scene. The music tries to sound epic but the scene is just "not so much" to be par with. Another thing is the extras character, totally can't act and quite ruin this movie. Also the misplaced C. G. I that looks weird. I guess due the to lack of budget, the director can't do much to make this movie better. However, still is an interesting movie that quite disappointed at some area.
