The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines

2011 [MS]

Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy

1
IMDb Rating 3.8/10 10 1191 1.2K

Plot summary

Based loosely on the 16th century historical document entitled ‘The Malay Annals’, ’The Chronicles of Merong Mahawangsa’ is an action-packed epic feature film, with mythical characters, magical moments and dazzling visual-effects sequences. Merong Mahawangsa was a descendant of Alexander the Great, a renowned naval captain and traveler who came to Asia several hundred years ago.

Director

Yusry Abd Halim Photo
Yusry Abd Halim

Top cast

Jing Lusi Photo
Jing Lusi as Princess Meng Li Hua
Craig Fong Photo
Craig Fong as Admiral Liu Yun
Wan Hanafi Su Photo
Wan Hanafi Su as Taji
Henrik Norman Photo
Henrik Norman as Lycius
720p.BluRay
1005.28 MB
1280*720
Ms 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 49 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by husnaasaip-1 4 / 10

Ambitious.. sadly..

This film is trying to be big, but ended up being nowhere.It is promoted as a CGI film, but can't even put a computer generated 'Garuda' in the film. What good is the CGI, if the crucial mythical element like this is ignored? If 'Malay originality' is the word, then certainly this film lack much of it. Old Malay language plus modern-sounding English.. come on!! In the end, it's like watching unfinished '300' or 'Troy' parody film with Malay dubbing.. minus the parody. Half an hour into the film, i just didn't care about the CGI anymore, and hopeful for something else. Honesty and pure spirit of Malay film. Sadly it's not there.I give 4 out of 10 because i know this disastrous film will be a good stepping stone for the producer to produce a decent one, later.
Reviewed by RatedVforVinny 3 / 10

Not the best example of South East Asian Cinema.

This "Epic" drama comes out of Malaysia and the story revolves around a Roman soldier, who travels to Goa (India) to meet a Chinese Princess. She gets captured by pirates and the rest of the film concerns a unilateral rescue operation. It's let down by some cheap C.G.I effects in the battle action and half hearted Martial Arts. Best avoided.
Reviewed by laapsaap 3 / 10

You guys cant be defending this, its ambitious.. but this movie is quite bad.

You guys cant be defending this, its ambitious.. but this movie is quite bad.The broken English really make the movie less enjoyable, just make them even look more like amateur actors.Quite a lot of scenes and dialogs were very corny, hard to endure. I walked away from this movie.. leaving in the background.I can see they tried very hard to make this movie work, if they made it less corny. And if they just remove most of the English dialogs, it would be more enjoyable.Was impressed that in a few scenes they actually did a very good job compared to the rest, but too bad most of it, wasn't.
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