As a Singaporean who had served in the army before. I went in to experience the type of movie that can bring back the memories and also some of the folklore of Army horror stories.
I came out of this movie with nothing. Yes, Nothing. The whole movie wasn't even relatable to my army days training. It has had the potential with its realistic setting, but ultimately, the director just wasn't that good at telling a story.
Firstly, we were introduced with a few characters in the army bunk at night, with one guy telling about some horror story that happened in that island. The characters were obnoxious, unrelatable and just bring out the stereotype of a bully in camp, a coward and a few nice who cant be bother with whats happening in the bunk and do nothing.
Basically the entire movie only revolved around 5 recruits and one sergeant. They had the entire bunk filled with extras who dont have much lines at all. In a sense, this makes the entire movie unrealistic, as there were many scenes in the movie where the 5 recruits were always away separated from the bulk of the platoon.
Lets talk about the road march in the jungle, it was probably a bad try at a real road march training in the army. Why would members of the road march start splitting up into literally isolated situations is beyond my belief. There was a scene in which the IC had to run all the way back to no mans land to search for the sergeant. Yes, that sergeant is so far back alone that the IC has to go look for him in the dark.
That scene in which they made a headcount in the dark as well, was quite frankly a terrible attempt. I think "incredible tales did a better job." And that scene was just did with 5 recruits in pretty much visible lighting. I understand the director was trying to let his viewers see the entire play of it and trying to make it like the actors could not see each other when they did the headcount. But seriously, that was a really bad attempt. No one does headcount with 5 person, maybe a platoon of 30, with an extra headcount would have made it more realistic and scary.
Overall, a very budget movie, who can afford to bring in Mark Lee and those extras, but chose to just focus the movie around a small group in an Army situation just makes no sense. The scares are also few are scarce.
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I came out of this movie with nothing. Yes, Nothing. The whole movie wasn't even relatable to my army days training. It has had the potential with its realistic setting, but ultimately, the director just wasn't that good at telling a story.
Firstly, we were introduced with a few characters in the army bunk at night, with one guy telling about some horror story that happened in that island. The characters were obnoxious, unrelatable and just bring out the stereotype of a bully in camp, a coward and a few nice who cant be bother with whats happening in the bunk and do nothing.
Basically the entire movie only revolved around 5 recruits and one sergeant. They had the entire bunk filled with extras who dont have much lines at all. In a sense, this makes the entire movie unrealistic, as there were many scenes in the movie where the 5 recruits were always away separated from the bulk of the platoon.
Lets talk about the road march in the jungle, it was probably a bad try at a real road march training in the army. Why would members of the road march start splitting up into literally isolated situations is beyond my belief. There was a scene in which the IC had to run all the way back to no mans land to search for the sergeant. Yes, that sergeant is so far back alone that the IC has to go look for him in the dark.
That scene in which they made a headcount in the dark as well, was quite frankly a terrible attempt. I think "incredible tales did a better job." And that scene was just did with 5 recruits in pretty much visible lighting. I understand the director was trying to let his viewers see the entire play of it and trying to make it like the actors could not see each other when they did the headcount. But seriously, that was a really bad attempt. No one does headcount with 5 person, maybe a platoon of 30, with an extra headcount would have made it more realistic and scary.
Overall, a very budget movie, who can afford to bring in Mark Lee and those extras, but chose to just focus the movie around a small group in an Army situation just makes no sense. The scares are also few are scarce.
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