Impak Maksima.

yup, for those who are not familiar with the title, it basically translates to english as 'Maximum Impact' which is the a film produced locally by Ahmad Idham.

i knew i just had to go and watch it. but didn't want to go alone like when i watched 'gengster'. don't ask...but let's just say 'gengster' was a bloody waste of time and money.

moving on. (spoilers ahead)

here's my honest opinion on the movie and if anyone affiliated to the parties involved in the making of this film reads/stumbles upon this, well, just take it into consideration for any future movies you plan to film. i'll try my best to be as neutral as possible with this review.

now after a long string of advertisements, we finally see the intro, which is a 3d model of the internals of the engine working and they go through the turbines (from my POV, the turbine blades were not balanced at all, it was rotating of it's axis and in the real world would have caused it to fail prematurely, but anyway) then you get a visual of the 3d modeled engine bay finally at the very end of the intro you get a view of an exhaust particle escaping the exhaust tailpipe, which signals the start of the action. so thumbs up for a rather detailed model of the engine but there's room for improvements.

after the first race, we are introduced to most of the characters and the thing that bugs me the most is the slang and 'poser' type language used. it's as if they're trying to be hip-hop and at the same time speak in malay, for example when two characters meet each other they'll go 'wassup bro?! malam ni ada game tau? *weird hand gestures* takpe aku setting kereta engko untuk drag la! best punyer!'
hope you get an idea on the way the talk. it's hard to describe really. but anyway, after about 10 minutes of listening to that sort of dialog you become used to it.

nice selection of cars by the way, interesting to see a levin/trueno with a turbocharged F20C engine from the S2000 if i'm not mistaken and some other usual cars that compete/participate regularly in our malaysian drift scene. i'm guessing most of the drifting was done by either ah fai (ser ming hu), tengku djan or the owners of the respective cars themselves.

one awful aspect of the movie is the cliche-d boy-girl romance. firstly, i feel that it wasn't well developed and ended up looking like filler material. it should have been removed from the script to allow more time to elaborate on the cars or the path that 'aye' the main character (don't know how the hell you spell his name) would have taken. we know he was supposed to be a professional driver for proton's R3 but did his brother allow him to go for the tests that he was supposed to take? there was no continuity on that part of the story, which i think would have been more interesting.

on the subject of continuity, people who aren't familiar with KL or subang roads would not have realized but the drifts that were done at the ss15 banked U-turn that connects to the federal highway were linked straight away to merdeka square and then to klcc. i mean how is that even possible? BUT the choice of drifting locations were good despite this illogical progression between scenes.

computer graphics. now i understand that you wouldn't be able to trash someones precious D1 drift machine, but at least try to blend the car into it's surroundings. and also add some realistic physics to the movement of the cars modeled this way. people who have watched it would know what i'm talking about as the cars were too cartoon-like which made it very distinguishable, the real from the not.

all things aside, i went into the cinema expecting something slightly better than 'gengster' but i came out feeling a little better about spending RM9 for this movie and this movie deserves somewhere between 4.5~5 stars out of 10. it was good that they actually concentrated on what the movie was about which was drifting but better scene continuity, computer graphics and dialogs would have given it in my opinion a solid 7 out of 10 stars.

having said that, hopefully the malaysian film industry can only move forward when producing movies like these. we shall wait and see how the next 'big' local drift movie would be like which is - Evolusi KL Drift, which looks promising from the youtube footage of the stunt where they crash an rx7 HERE.

The 3 'T's Rule.

Time, Tutes, and Thesis.

these are the 3 'T's i live by coming into 4th and final year of engineering. ughhhhhh.

anyway, a typical monday morning, i see myself camping in the library from 9-ish am all the way to about 1pm.


trying to catch up on tutes due to lack of TIME!

also got my thesis and all the background reading i've gotta do. headache.

upgraded my workspace to accommodate for my CAD stuff, more desktop space = GOOD.


lemme just say that 20" LCDs are the way to go. it's actually damn friggin huge man. i can fit about two heads into the monitor albeit abit squished.

just a pic i found amusing. if you don't know what 'irony' is, well, THIS will give you a rough idea.

well, gotta go. got a test tmrw...study study study.

"Thesis + Tutes = Not Enough Time"