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Evolusi:KL Drift – rocks

Its one of the most anticipated movies by the local scene in Malaysia, the KL drift movie which sounds like the Tokyo Drift few years ago. The release date is very suitable for me since I was just finish my final exam on 1st April, this movie was open on 3rd April. I just love to watch movies after I finished one busy semester as a treat to myself. Since I have nothing to do on that day, I went to KLCC after booked my tickets online. Its kinda cruel at TGV because I only late 15 minutes and they already cancel my reservation. Its OK because its still early in the morning and no crowd at 10.30 am. I can say that there are less than half of audience were watching the first show on that day.

OK now lets have some movie review. It was the first movie directed by Yusof Haslam’s son. I think that he manage to do that movie because his father owns the Skop Production and its pretty good for him. Even his dad challenged him to finish the movie in 35 days, he did it in 38 days. I think he can become a good director since he’s still young. Long way to go bro. By the way, they keep mentioning that this movie is made from teens for teens (audience) and that’s why the theme revolves around friendship, love and nightlife.

I pretty like the idea of using all real cars and no CGI (Computer Generated Imagery). That is why the drifting part looks cool and realistic. Eventhough CGI can help in making them looks real, but the feeling is not the same. Just like previous drifting movies, Initial D and Tokyo Drift, plus Impak Maksima, I believe that CGI can give some difficult camera shots and some tricky techniques. I just hated it when in Impak Maksima movie, where they blow up the car in the end, its such a pathetic scene. The visualizer should study more lighting and rendering technique to produce more realistic scene.

The characters in this movie is good and I think they act real good. If you have watched Aaron and Fasha in a drama before, they usually don’t have such character. And for this movie, their character has change 180 degrees. Its cool to see how evil Aaron is and how aggressive Fasha is. By the way, some dialogue of Aaron is pretty funny. I don’t know why but listening to his ‘lu gua’ lingo is not acceptable for such a gangster.

Next, is not about the movie but the website. I think they wanted to imitate like the Tokyo Drift website but eventually it ends up hopeless. I don’t know what went wrong with the layout and for me the website looks incomplete. You may check their website at kldrift.com and you’ll understand what am I talking about.

Finally is the collaboration between Skop Production and Grand Brilliance. They said that this is such a good collaboration because Skop Production is really good in the technical and film production while the GBSB is expert in the promotional and marketing stuff. However, I pretty confused down here, why is that they don’t really invest in the newspaper advertisement? If you have noticed, they do have lots of trailers in the television, but they don’t really invest much in newspapers. I would say this because in all major newspaper I read, all of their poster in the newspaper is BLACK AND WHITE which means NOT IN COLOUR. Its hard for me to get a look at their coloured poster. Even not in their website too. They should have produce wallpapers sections perhaps for downloads. I guess they cut their budget on newspaper ad is that because this movie itself has taken more than RM2 million and they only can think to promote no matter its in colour or not.

In addition, I’m kinda like the soundtrack for this movies. The songs are KL Drift and Buatan Berbisa, composed by James Baum ft Mahadir and Sameer. If you wanna listen to the KL Drift song, check you this http://youtube.com/watch?v=JPYCdUvcba0. Before this James Baum has composed Skirt and this time its sounds just perfect. Maybe if there’s no Shamsul’s voice, it’ll be better.

I guess I will give movie 4 stars and would like to recommend you guys watching this movie. Guess the feeling is better than watching Cuci movie.