Clash of Empires: The Battle for Asia (2011)
Based loosely on the 16th century historical document entitled ‘The Malay Annals’, ’The Chronicles of Merong Mahawangsa’ is an action-packed epic feature film, with mythical characters, magical moments and dazzling visual-effects sequences. Merong Mahawangsa was a descendant of Alexander the Great, a renowned naval captain and traveler who came to Asia several hundred years ago.
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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
Purely Joyful Movie!
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
I gave this movie a 10, it probably deserved a 5 or 6, but with the overwhelmingly poor ratings given to it I thought it could use a boost. This was by no means a perfect movie, but I still enjoyed it. If more care had been given to the script to tighten it up and improve the dialog it could have been much better. There was too much information just tossed in and the occasional plot hole. I didn't care much for the attempts at humor, either. But, though jumpy, the battle scenes were well done and the overall pace and tone of the film were good. The theme of ancient Romans and Chinese fighting together in South Asia was too good to pass up, so I decided to give it a chance despite the poor reviews. Even though it lagged in spots it kept my attention and I'm glad I spent the time to watch it. And I'm very picky about what I watch.
I tried to watch this movie to see if it is worth the positive coverage that the Malaysian media have given during its preview. But to my disappointment I left the cinema in the middle of the showing. The acting, the props, the CGI was not to the standard where we can say that it is an epic story. At the beginning of the story, I was so annoyed at the narration. The narrator tried so hard trying not to choke on his on voice to make that 'old man' sound. And eventually the storyline become dull and tasteless. At one scene during the battle, there was a fierce storm and the fight scene was intense, but I was surprised to see that the coconut trees at the background were not even moving. If the Malay warriors were still alive they will certainly not approve the efforts the film makers trying to portray about their lives. But again, what can I expect from the KRU productions.
Honestly I wasted my 109 mins of my life watching this movie. It's worse then a kindergarten play, the kids would have done a better job in acting then they did. Bad graphics on all the themes. I don't know how someone could created such a bad movie. It's Amateur movie a shame for the money they wasted.I don't understand what other people like about the movie and I usually have an open mind for different types of movies but this was certainly one of the worse movies I ever seen.Do not waste your time on this movie 1 star is even overrated in my opinion but if you do not believe me see for yourself.
You guys cant be defending this, its ambitious.. but this movie is quite bad.The broken English really make the movie less enjoyable, just make them even look more like amateur actors.Quite a lot of scenes and dialogs were very corny, hard to endure. I walked away from this movie.. leaving in the background.I can see they tried very hard to make this movie work, if they made it less corny. And if they just remove most of the English dialogs, it would be more enjoyable.Was impressed that in a few scenes they actually did a very good job compared to the rest, but too bad most of it, wasn't.