Ah Boys To Men Movie Review
I watched the recent Jack Neo's movie " Ah Boys To Men " this afternoon at Shaw Theaters, Bugis Junction. Overall, the movie's great and hilarious. It shows the life of a few recruits going through their Basic Military Training from all walks of life and backgrounds.
Basically there are a few main characters in the movie.
The story begins by showing a war scene happening in Singapore. There was an unknown aircraft identified by the Singapore Air Force. The battle begun by a few aircraft shooting missiles at a few familiar buildings like the Esplanade and Singapore Flyer. There were many explosions and many innocent people hurt. I'm actually very impressed with the effects and all, i mean, its not easy to make those things. The Singapore infantry unit was then deployed and there were a few gun shots as they proceeded to clear the areas.
After a few minutes of explosions, gunshots and shouting, the whole scene turned out to be a game and the movie turns to Ken Chow playing a video game at a LAN shop with his girlfriend.
Even thought the war scene was just a game, i think there's a message behind that. The scene shows how chaotic war would bring to Singapore and what will happen to innocent people. So it is trying to say that we should not take the things that we have for granted and if war broke out unknowingly, what do we do? Many people think that National Service is a waste of our two years that we can use to pursue their studies and some unwillingly entered and constantly GENG ( pretend ) to be excused from training but the purpose of National Service is to protect our country and we should therefore do out best to train up so as to be operationally ready lest there's war.
Anyway, back to the story, Ken Chow did not want to go National Service as he wanted to go overseas with his girlfriend to study. He is a spoilt boy who lives in a comfortable home with a maid to assist him with everything. His dad tried to convince him to do his best to go to Officer Cadet School but his mother tried to find ways to help him skip NS and his uncle who taught him how to GENG to be excused for training. In his Basic Military Training School he met Lobang, which is his buddy, who gives his name cards to every person in the platoon and Pin Man AKA IP MAN.
After two weeks, the recruits finally booked out. Ken then found out that his girlfriend had dumped him for another man because she claimed that that man is less impulsive than him. This upsets him so much that he could not concentrate on his training when he came back to BMTC. He decided to win her heart back by appearing at the airport to send his girlfriend off so he decided to make himself sick to be sent to the hospital and secretly go to Changi Airport. He bathe with icy cold water and fan himself before wiping. He refused to drink during the road march and suffered from a heatstroke and was sent to the hospital immediately. This incident was reported to his family and his father drove to the hospital in the middle of his meeting. Due to his poor heart condition, he collapse and this lead him to a car accident. Ken finally see through his selfish action and this changed him. If he had listened to his father and do his best in army, he would not have landed his father in the hospital.
Unknowingly, this turned out to be just the first part of the entire movie. Can't wait for the second part of the movie to be out! :D To those who haven't watched it yet, i hope this review of mine will let you know what to expect when watching it ^^
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