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1/10
Painful mix of under- and- overacting
21 January 2003
Oh, the horror, the unspeakable horror of this film. If you can even call it a film. This looks like some first-year art school project, hastily cobbled together.

The "talents" here will subject you to a painful mix of under- and- overacting, and practically all the scenes were terribly contrived and pretentious.

The film in no way reflects Malaysian culture or social conventions - nobody even talks that way over here. I live in Malaysia, BTW.

Spinning Gasing seems tailor-made to pick up an award in the foreign film category of some western film festival. And unfortunately, that ploy seems to have worked. Some reviewers would no doubt describe it as "exotic", but a more accurate word would be "atrocious".
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The X Files (1998)
5/10
Some of the episodes were better than the whole film!
24 September 1999
I was greatly disappointed with the movie. At times it seemed to be on the verge of degenerating into a sappy love story what with lines like "I can't live without you" and "you make me whole". The hollywood executives definitely exercised their clout here - you get the mandatory romance and the leading lady gets "nekkid". And since they had a bigger budget, why not throw in some spectacular sets and computer graphics? This is yet another example of made for TV content that does not translate well into movies.
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