KKN di Desa Penari: Luwih Dowo, Luwih Medeni

Stumbling upon this 2022 Indonesian horror movie by random chance here in 2023, needless to say that with my fascination and love of the horror cinema and Asian cinema, then of course I had to watch it. Sure, I had never heard about "KKN Di Desa Penari: Luwih Dowo, Luwih Medeni" prior to stumbling upon it, so I didn't know what I was in for here.

However, I have to say that the nearly three hour run-time of the movie was sort of a detergent, because it seemed a bit too much. Yet, I opted to give the movie the benefit of the doubt and still sat down to watch it.

And I made it 62 minutes into the ordeal, then I just couldn't take any more of the virtual punishment that is "KKN Di Desa Penari: Luwih Dowo, Luwih Medeni". Wow, talk about a slow paced and pointless narrative. There was nothing, and I kid you not, of any interest happening throughout the 62 minutes of torment that I sat through. And I don't even remember the names of the characters, because they were bland, one-dimensional caricatures that I just didn't care one bit about. And the insanely slow paced narrative without proper contents just didn't help to win me over.

I don't know what writers Lele Laila, Gerald Mamahit and SimpleMan were thinking here. And 175 minutes of what I assume is sheer nothingness and boredom, well, that just doesn't work for me. I endured a staggering and all-together boring 62 minutes, and have zero interest or intentions of returning to finish watching the movie.

Given my limited exposure to the Indonesian cinema, I have to admit that I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. Not that I was impressed, because the performers virtually had nothing to work with here. I am sure that they were good actors and actresses, but they stood no chance with the laughable script handed to them.

Visually, then I saw nothing impressive in the 62 minutes of torment I sat through.

My rating of director Awi Suryadi's 2022 horror movie "KKN Di Desa Penari: Luwih Dowo, Luwih Medeni" lands on a one out of ten stars. This was boredom in its purest form.