Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

kebylynn I thought this movie was a good effort to move the Malaysian movie industry forward. Yes, it was abit slow paced, but at least it wasn't one of those stereotypical movies you had in the mid 90's. What I'm irritated about is the fact that you keep mentioning the fact that the bad movies are made by MALAY people and the movies are dominated by MALAY people. Whats your problem against the Malays? You're supposed to comment about the movie, no one cares about your involvement in the film,the fact that you're one of the musicians (big huge freakin deal) plus you're being a pure racist because you keep bringing up the point that despite the fact that the movie is made by a Chinese, its still slow moving. Are you trying to imply that it should have been better because it was made by a Chinese and if it was directed by a Malay , it would have sucked?! The oh-so rotten Malay movie scene? You mean MALAYSIAN movie scene don't you? Because other than Malay movies being made in Malaysia, we sure don't hear about Chinese people making movies in Malaysia, or do you? Why do you point out at the Malays so much? If you're going to post a comment about a movie, keep it real. No one wants to read your stupid racist comments or your minor involvement in the movie. Get over the race issue already and GROW up!

Midget_with_Downs Saw this during the Stockholm Film Festival and it was stated this was Malaysias biggest film budgetwise ever. As such, it is an artistic trainwreck. Those interested in romance and scenery will receive ample doses of scenes with incredibly long, drawn-out, pompous dialogue. This all fails to raise even an eyebrow. Sorry, no points for costumes.Those interested in action will get two short and silly displays of either "Silat" (No, no novelty points) or a painful Crouching Tiger-inspired swordfight with pyrotechnics.Best wishes to the Malaysian film industry, hoping they will try an original concept or at least a decent screenplay next time.

FergusSKOng i was disappointed. i very much wanted to like this film as i'd like to hope high for Malaysian films. first the good - m nasir was very good. he met my expectation and handled a tedious script to his very best. sofia jane was excellent. if the stories that jaquelina instructed the removal of lots of jane's scenes are true (to take out screen "competition"... jaquelina co-produced this with her husband) then it is regrettable. it's just a rumor, but one does wonder why an excellent performer and performance ended up so maligned. moving on, the production values are all excellent. great set, nice cinematography, nice costumes... editing style was fine, though the decision to drag it out to 145 minutes was certainly ill-chosen.now the bad. tiara jaquelina was really not fit to play this role. she is so limited, so one-dimensional and so wooden. she doesn't exude the grace nor the natural beauty demanded of the role, nor does she poses a voice (a bit croaky, isn't it?) to perform lengthy verses of spoken word poetry kinda dialogue and voice over. inevitable that she was the lead actress but deeply, deeply flawed decision for the film.poor characterisation. didn't feel for them all. m nasir tries and succeeds somewhat to elicit a response from me but the rest of the leading cast are all cardboards. i'll blame the scriptwriter for this. just too much screen time for everyone but the film doesn't work hard enough to develop character, narrative and a love for the world. it's so easy already because everything's in place: great set, great story, great characters. in the end it just became a bad tiara star vehicle. that's why i'm so disappointed.

snuffles-1 Puteri Gunung Ledang was better than I expected however I felt that they could have edited it a bit more since it seemed quite draggy. The beautiful Tiara Jacquelina looked a bit "forced" during some scenes but overall, an average performance. M. Nasir's acting shocked me as I didn't expect much from him. The concept of the fighting scenes could have been done and explained better as well. Sophia Jane put on a good performance -- they should have given her more lines instead of standing around looking pretty. I don't have anything to rave about the "Sultan of Malacca" however the kid who played the Crown Prince is adorable. I ended up in tears so do bring along a packet of tissue if you're as sensitive and emotional as I am ;)