I've watched Nik Amir Mustapha past work before, which was KIL, and to me it was quite good. I've started to believe that there's still hope for Malaysian Cinema after the release of KIL. And now, another work from him, come with a compelling title "Terbaik Dari Langit" (The original title for the film was "Bikin Filem"). I'm really pumped up upon the release of this film. Hoping maybe for a sci-fi flick or maybe a good drama based movie.
But....God, never have I been so wrong.
At the end of the film my first thought was "Mehhhh. Not good. Definitely not good." Firstly, I could say that this movie had no direction at all. The elements of UFO were being used just simply to brought you to just "We will put UFO and then we will show them it's about friendship and not about UFO." It was like seeing the usual TV drama, but just adding some UFO and CGI simply just want to make the things better. It didn't work for me at all. Secondly, the movie make me feel kinda empty due the looseness of the plot. It's about friendship but I didn't feel it at all. The plot execution was not hard enough. There was no ups and downs. It was like hearing a progressive house song without any bass in it. Thirdly, it was bloody predictable. From the moments when it start you can already know what would happened next, I guarantee you. Friends, fight, reunion, happy. Boom.
To conclude it, "Terbaik Dari Langit" was not quite good at all. Some of you were saying that it injects a lot of messages. But hey, when you think back, all movies can injects you with some messages. It's just depends on how you wanted to interpret it. And I would interpret "Terbaik Dari Langit" as a "Not Terbaik At All".
