Air Force: The Movie - Selagi Bernyawa

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Nice movie

Lots of action, but also lots of melodrama. The special effects are actually not that bad and the units and equipment in this tale in a fictitious country are pretty on accurate for the Malaysian side. Problem is the story is flat. There's the humanitarian doctor. The "critical of the military" reporter. The token Whiney character. The stoic commander and his band of hyper emotional commandos. Of course there's a fairly chaste love story and the rivalry between brother in law and brother in said chaste relationship. I will admit I had to fast forward a bunch of parts since there was a lot of excessive emotional outbursts superfluous to the story at hand. The movie reminded me of the worst of modern Chinese and Indian cinema with it's kind of campy hyper patriotism, cardboard characters and boring "mission accomplished"-"roger that" type dialogue coupled with a lot of sentimentality.

The storyline is quite simple, straight-forward and easy to understand. It's pretty much like those Hollywood military movies, it just requires a reason to be attacked, and there it comes all the attacks go on the troops! The pace is alright, with actions here and there to keep the momentum going. There are sufficient action scenes to keep audiences entertained. BUT none is great and 'memorable' enough to impress audiences. Besides, with the movie name - AirForce, I expected to see more fighting and defence in the air, BUT it's just about 20~30% in the air and 70~80% on the ground (PASKAU squad). The character development is good in a way that within a short moment, audiences could see the different backgrounds and characters of each PASKAU member. BUT with their actions in there, I started to suspect their maturity and mental stability for such an important mission. E.g. Rushing to save a child, while putting all team members at risk and so on. A few flaws are picked up as follows: Firstly, some fighting scenes are really shaky, e.g. The fight in the tunnel. I could hardly see anything due to the poor lighting + shaky camera, and felt rather dizzy, as such I gave up watching for that 1 minute!! Gosh! Give me a BREAK!! Secondly, the long-haired villain seems to be really BAD and CRUEL! I expected to see a great fight between Lejen and him! BUT.. it ended up with a 'close-door fight', and audiences didn't know what happened, and somehow he died!!! Hello~~ if that's the case, then pls waste time building his character as if he is the real BAD-ASS at the first place! Thirdly, the jet-fight scene is great! BUT I could not tell which was the Malaysian jet-fighter & which is the enemy's. If that part could be made clearer, it would be great! Finally, from the backstory, the movie was supposed to show the restoration of friendship or reconciliation between Mantis and Zaf. BUT it went missing! And there is no further story about it! For a local production, I gave 7.0/ 10. Everything is intact! It gives you all that you want to see! It's worth your money to support a local movie like this!!