FILM REVIEW | Malaysia’s first crowdfunded film titled “Pendatang” (Immigrant), was made available globally yesterday at 9pm (Malaysian time) on YouTube.

Within 18 hours of its release, Amir Muhammad, one of the producers of the movie took to Facebook and said the film garnered over 100,000 views.

At less than one hour and 40 minutes, the story moves along at an even pace and most of what is going on is picked up through conversations between characters.

After watching the film, I remembered what an old colleague once said about how it is hard to write a review for a good film, but words just flow when the film is bad.

And yes, I found it hard to write a review for “Pendatang”. It is no cinematic masterpiece in terms of scale but it carries a powerful message.

No doubt the action scenes...