KaMi ThE mOviE

I watched KAMI The Movie recently. It’s a story of 5 best friends (Ali, Abu, Lyn, Adii, and Sofie) lepak-ing around in the urban area, mamak area, playing gig, enjoying and partying, until something bad happen and they all move on with their own respective lives. Too brief?

KAMI The Movie Official Wallpaper

The movie starts with Abu running away from the juvie. He then met up with Ali, and they go get their girl friends, and then they go picnic. The first 45 minutes to 1 hour or so aren’t so important as they’re only meant to introduce the main characters to people like me, who did not watch the miniseries.

Ali is a Datuk’s son who had a bad past with drugs. He’s the guitarist and the vocalist of a band named The Disaster. Despite his bad history, he’s working at a tourism company because of the influence of his father.

Abu is Ali’s best friend, and was sent to the juvie because he’s a thief. He escaped after whacking up a bunch of seniors who tried to rag him.

Lyn is a girl from kampong and her past is unknown. In the movie, she’s revealed to have run errand distributing drugs for her ex-student (ex-student? That part was really confusing).

Adii a.k.a. Public Enemy had been dating guys from internet, but she haven’t get over her ex-cyber-boyfriend Vanilla Ice. So, she acted as if she’d moved on and dates other ‘cute’ guys, which often turn out to be extremely uncute and scare the shit outta her.

Lastly, there was Sofie who’s Ali’s ex, and cannot move on, even though she’s dating someone else already. And oh, she got an offer from a university that affers her medicine, but her mum his that offer letter because kahwin tak jadi, and want Sofie by her side.

So, everything got mess up when Lyn’s dark past came back and haunt her. Boy, which is her ex-student and probably also her ex-boyfriend is a small time drug lord in the town. Boy tried to talk Lyn into following her, and ends up fighting Abu and Ali in a subway.

In order to keep Boy away from her friends, Lyn agrees to deliver the drugs for a few last times. It so happens one of her customers is Ali (whom cannot cope with the stress that he’s facing; mum gonna remarry, and Abu hid the truth that he escaped from juvie).

And I’ve to admit some of the scenes in this movie just don’t make sense to me. Especially the scene after Lyn delivers the drugs to Ali. She took the payment, and crumbles the money she’s received from Ali. Then she cried in disappointment (by the way she developed a crush on Ali and vice versa on Ali’s side) and took up a razor. For a moment that scene really looked like she’s gonna cut her wrist or something. Guess what? She took the razor and confronted Boy, and that tiny little razor scares the shit out of Boy (WTF? For a drug dealer’s standard, he’s such a chicken).

It seems to me that Boy need to reclaim his pride as a man, so he appears before Ali and have a manly one on one fight - in which he loses again. He took out a knife and attempt to stab Ali: however in a split second, Abu pushed Ali away and took the stab. Well, Abu then bleed to death in Ali’s car.

This KAMI The Movie is quite an interesting teenage movie. I think the fans of the miniseries would definitely be watching this in the cinema because it was never concluded in the series. However for us which had never seen the series, the pickup of the story is actually really quite dull. Maybe only the last 20 minutes that things really got spiced up.

What I love most about this film is the ending, and the tagline of the movie.

Hidup ini memang pantat palat, tapi esok masih ada.