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1942, Malaysia.
A small group of soldiers find
themselves lost in the jungle. Their maps are wrong,
their radios aren't working and they seem to be
haunted by a female ghost. What does she want? What
is this mysterious forest? Will anyone come out alive?
After the mediocre horror movie "The Maid" (which was
anything but original), director Kelvin Tong moves
onto some even more familiar territories with his
ghost story "1942". This time The Blair Witch Project
meets R-Point and the outcome is... well that's not
important right now, first I'd like to raise the
question; why would anyone want to mix an awful movie
with a mediocre movie? Now I get why people are copying
The Ring, The Eye, Shutter etc but why would anyone
want to copy R-Point or Blair Witch Project? Yes they
were successful but they weren't very good. For those
of you who disagree with me; Blair Witch had no horror,
it was just a bunch of brats running around in the
woods screaming. R-Point was uneventful, slow and
somewhat tedious. In fact, this was also the case with
The Blair Witch Project so what do you get when you
cross two slow and uneven horror flicks? That's right
people, a real sleeping pill.
1942 is 84 minutes long and the "horror" aspect of
the movie doesn't come in until 70 minutes into the
film. For the rest of the time we're fed with
uninteresting dialogues, uneven acting, intrigues
that are anything but intriguing and predictable
plot twists. The movie revolves around a group of
random soldiers who find themselves lost in the deep
jungles of Malaysia. With no sign of their troups
they decide to try to find a way out of there, but
when their maps turn out to be inaccurate, things
take a turn for the worse. As if that wasn't bad
enough, it also seems as if the ghost of a woman is
haunting them, but what could she possibly want? Will
they get out of the woods alive?
As you can hear this one is a real snoozer and it's a
shame really because even though it looks far from as
beautiful as R-Point visually, Kelvin Tong has still
done a pretty decent job directing this film and the
cinematography is pretty stellar as well. They had
the right scenery, the right director and everything,
they just didn't have the right plot. It's 84 minutes
of pure nonsense. That's right, nothing happens, and
I mean NOTHING happens. It was just so slow. In the end
1942 may look good visually but that's the only good
thing I can find to say about this movie, unfortunately.
A lot of effort obviously went into making it but it
didn't impress me and I'm pretty sure that I'm not the
only one that this movie will fail to entertain.
Nada.
Some pan flute music and some forgettable suspense
music. Very plain and simple.
Pointless horror drama that drags even more than the
movie that it's copying the most, namely R-Point. I also
don't quite get why Kelvin Tong would shoot a movie in
Japanese language, it doesn't make sense. Anyway, not
a lot to see here people, move on.
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