Viral Factor (逆战) was considered my first movie of 2012 released. It was a coincidence that it was Chinese New Year, and I had the time to join two different groups into the cinema to watch this movie twice. I remembered Jay Chou's most actively played role in the movie was "Initial D", and his some other movies were more to Romance - "The Secret".
It was all the way where I heard friends telling me of how good the movie, "Viral Factor" is, maybe it is due to the presence of Jay Chou and Nicholas Tse. Also, the filming venue was mainly in the few familiar venues that we known of, our country Malaysia. I went for the movie with the similar reasons.
Frankly speaking, I did not expect the movie to start with a Prologue, where Jay Chou himself unpredicting the character whom always gives him an helping hand which was his brother, Man Fei (Nicholas Tse). With the two main international actors mentioned above playing the role as brothers revolves around an unknown virus that could be global threat along with the relationship of the brothers.
The starting point at Jordan was filled with explosive action packed scenes. The guns and the tanks that duel between the officers and enemies was well shot with good sound effect and audio. With a simple story told to the audience that reflects of how the people in Jordan deal with blackmailing and enemies retreat.
Not forgetting to mention that Nicholas Tse's acting was good in the movie. Nicholas' acting was undeniable so much above Jay which the point of excitement was given to the film. Being a bad side of himself in the enemy, his background was reflected of how he was brought up with purpose in life of taking good care of his father and daughter, which is somehow not a wrong path but was being forced by situations.
The surprising part of the movie was they managed to shot those scenes in the busy and crowded area of Kuala Lumpur, for example Jalan Parlimen, Jalan Raja Chulan, the amain pathway of Pavilion, KL Sentral, Golden Triangle, Port Klang, Pudu... etc. There was so much of actions and gun fights mentioned at the areas.
Somehow to review back the malay language spoken in the movie was a little spoilt to the movie as the language spoken could not be even spoken fluently. Also, there was a particular scene where the exterior of flight showing Air Asia and Malaysia flag. With the usage of Perodua Myvi seems to be showing the audience the "good" side of our own countries' productivity. My question is why couldn't they use Malaysia Airline and Proton?
Somehow, to continue writing, I will perhaps recommend you guys to watch it in the cinema and enjoy the short plot of the whole movie.
Movie Rating: 8.5/10
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