Gin Ke Dus

Gin Ke Dus is the kind of film that makes you wish you could unlearn counting. If the title refers to a countdown, I was counting the minutes till it ended - and every second felt like a punishment from the universe.

The movie pretends it has suspense. It doesn't. It pretends it has depth. It barely has a surface. By the time we reach "dus," the only thing that explodes is the audience's patience.

The plot? A confusing mess of clichés, unnecessary slow-motion shots, and characters who all seem to be in a competition to deliver the worst performance. The lead actor looks constantly confused - probably wondering why they signed this film. The antagonist delivers threats like a drunk uncle at a wedding. And the background score is so dramatic, it's like the music composer thought he was scoring Avengers: Endgame.

Even the editing is a joke. One scene cuts so abruptly, I thought I sat on the remote.

In short: Gin Ke Dus is a countdown to cinematic doom. The only people who should watch this are film students learning what not to do.

Negative stars if possible. Count that.

This trite and formulaic low-budget student film doesn't have a single element of interest to hold onto. The cinematography is so flat and amateurish that it looks like a local TV soap opera - makes it impossible to suspend disbelief. Absolutely abysmal student acting paired with a clumsy and unbelievably overstretched script make this impossible to finish. A lot of stereotypical and derivative horror-trope directing moves really start to grate after a while, especially because when trying so hard to look Hollywood, it just really doesn't come across authentic to the context it comes from at all.