The assistant : opinions on a malay movie

 

One again to my interest to Malaysia and its culture after Mt Kilau last month  and around a handful of movies long ago. As shown, this is new release this year produced for Netflix.

If I can write something in short its simple: an interesting but very violent and blood-y movie with lots crazy fantasy scenes.

Getting now into some analysis : I know some little Malay and could understood around 10% of what told but Greek subtitles greatly helped me. A good way to tst and learn a bit of the language live.

 

This is the story of  Zafik or Just Fiq as many times noticed in the movie. He was unjustly imprisoned He is a calm but legitimate but poor civilian. After being released he aimed to get revenge against anyone involved to get him imprisoned (for trafficking  drugs) His aim is to get informed who and why killed his family. His older close friend a suddenly rich person welcome him  in his company to work for him but .. In the mean time Feroz a person with mental disorder helped him to get  revenge.

This is just the first 8 minutes of calm and slow plot with the remain story getting much more interest until in the end

The story also unfolds with many flashbacks in the past showing his life with his family hat shown his inability to help them and finally burned the time he was in the prison This is the near start scene showing him full of tears.

The story as already noticed is quite brutal. Mot of the movie is gunfire scenes and continuous martial arts most of them rather unnecessary. The movie spoil come to Feroz  the person who prefers to play the very strong brutal guy with Rambo powers! (a   bit unnatural for his muscle shape).

Fiq knows his abilities. He is a quite impotent and many times cold not help is family. Also a hesitating man.  Yes he is married with one child. Many times he could not even have money to feed them and always.

His character development unfortunately lowered after the help from Feroz

 Feroz (from Fairuz) instead is a crazy man He uses violent methods and is quite if not very smart. Many times you can look at him laughing even if noting happened. He has some secret that unveils in the 2/3 of the movie. An intriguing twist.  

 Sam FIqs  best fiend  keeps the secret of the story.

 

In the end there are serious secrets that twist the whole story Few of them secrets made me laugh from  plot’s naivety and will be remain secrets here .   The only I can notice the story steps twice higher from  fantasy towards reality.  As for example we see him getting stabbed to death and after a few seconds he again returns into life! A few mutes after he is fallen from the 3^rd floor bounce between walls  in a narrow  road and again after sometime he again risen from the …floor! Does not sound crazy ?

There are also some nice fast car scenes with lots of gunfire.

In short even if the movie  is good for international audience many foreigners will mostly laugh with it.

Filming is nice and very interesting with HD video quality and some minimal CGI, The main guys play well except Freoz with his ludicrous appearance and overwhelming acting . Lots also of bad mouthing (typical nasty English words )

I generally know that  the Malaysian kind of humor is even worse  than the Hindi humor as based on 4 movies seen on early 2k

3/5 one point more than the usual due to the Fiqs inner dialogue