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Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

To be honest, I never enjoyed watching Malay movie as the story of them are quite boring. But this movie is against all of them.I saw the movie at premium show. It was good. The plot is nice, actors are well chosen. In terms of cinematography it is quite interesting, the angels are nice. It shows truly Malaysian village life. If you would have a chance to live in Malaysia, this movie totally makes sense. I liked the flow of the story and the way Dain, the director, directed this movie.On the downside, There is lots of dialog could have removed. Some shots are long, IMHO. The fight scenes are OK. As a person always enjoy martial arts movie, I expected actors while having fights, they would have battle more aggressive. I liked those fighting scenes anyway.Thumps up!

Bunohan is a fascinating insight into the reality of life and culture of rural communities that are so bound by tradition and superstition. It's a story of the conflict between three brothers - who are separated from earlier in their life, who develops personality so different from each other. These brothers then was dragged back home by their destiny, each with their own agenda and thus became an analogy of the contradiction between modernity and tradition in the daily life in a rural community.Between blood relations, lust, greed, revenge, heritage and memories of the past, all of these elements are mixed, giving rise to the turn of events by the multi-dimensional characters in this film that leads into the narrative climax.

In my list of Malay movies, I only have a few movies that I remember making strong impact on me personally. Movies that made me talk about it for weeks, movies I repeatedly recommend to everyone. Bunohan made it to the list alongside Kaki Bakar, Dari Jemapoh ke Manchestee and surprisingly, Khabir Bhatia's Cinta.I should applaud the director who unburied the best of the actors. Pekin Ibrahim should be lauded for making a character so typical so convincing. Familiar names like Faizal Hussein and Zahiril known to be good actors delivered something extraordinary not only to the viewers' eyes but also piercing to the heart.I like to put Bunohan on the same level as There Will be Blood in term of the emotions projected. Bunohan doesn't offer beautiful scenery to help its beautiful cinematography but instead it uses beautiful cinematography to create a powerful mood.I feel like I'm having such a limited film vocabulary to do justice to Bunohan. But suffice to say that I can see the bright future of Malaysian film post-U-Wei Shaari.

This film is the mark of reborn of Malaysian film industry.After a LOT of total disgusting craps movie,Malaysian need this kind of film.a film that force viewer to think,read and feel the film.This film is not as hard as some other viewers said.its not highly 'hard to understand'.the plot is easy actually.Bakar, a man with clean looks while his two brothers,Ilham and Adil with dirty look but as what happen in our real world,Black not always bad,white not always good.There was some great scene in this film that I like such as when Ilham dreams about something like pyramid.a great metaphor.This film's cinematography also will make art lovers smile and fulfilled their lust for art.Go watch this film