Directed and produced by Dan Khoo and Brian Lee, this short film stars myself along with my military cosplay group PMCG.
Having trouble spotting me? I’m the operator with a Malaysian flag patch on the left sleeve. I’m often tasked as the pointman (the one leading the charge) in most scenes.
Getting to the filming location was a walk in a monster-infested swamp. First, I gotta meet up with the rest of the group at Sri Petaling LRT and that took me 2 hours to reach. That’s one bus to reach Kelana Jaya LRT and from there heading to Masjid Jamek LRT to change lines and disembark yet again at Chow Soi Lin LRT (if I’m not mistaken) to change lines yet again! To make matters worst, it’s Saturday so the LRT was packed and I have no place to sit throughout the journey. At the Chow Soi Lin LRT I changed into the wrong line twice! Did I mention that I didn’t sleep at all that day?
The location is an abandoned school in Taman Desa. It was extremely deserted and full of dead animals. In fact, throughout the time the filming took place, no one had even encountered one single living animal in the compound! It goes without saying that the place stinks to high heaven with rotting animal corpses, but what better place to film an action-packed hostage rescue than abandoned buildings?
During this scene, the MP7 submachinegun that I slung to my left suddenly disappeared…
…and inexplicably ended up in the hands of the final boss (Kenneth)! Clever camera tricks kept this easter egg hidden.
Look how steady I was while being perforated with bullets! 
Hangmen is dead? THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
I myself became the subject of yet another unresolved paranormal phenomenon where upon being gunned down, my body mysteriously vanished! You can assume that I became Jesus Christ and died for the sins of everyone… but at least it makes sense why I’m ‘Ghost’!
CQC takedown: putting smiles on tangos since the 1960's
Other hard-to-spot movie bloopers/trivias:
- Notice that early on, the team went past a windowless classroom? That classroom was also used as the room where the hostage was held and where the final boss was confronted. In other words, the team went full circle back to where they started to find the hostage and final boss!
- Nicholas’ (first operator to be shot) water canteen disappeared after he got shot.
- Brian (terrorist in orange t-shirt and jeans) is seen heading downstairs but never to be seen again. The terrorist I shot while taking cover at a pillar near the staircase was Brian again, but with a different set of gear.
- Lord (operator with cap) actually broke his sunglass during the filming so a scene was revised where his sunglass got shot off and replaced with my sunglass which I lend him.
- Lord’s Magpul stock fell off during the CQC takedown scene.
I was exhausted at the end of filming. Really, making a movie is harder than it looks. Four hours of filming felt like forever. I nearly quit when I thought the filming took a whole day when in fact it had only been less than an hour and a half! The heat combined with the weight of the gears as well as the stress and pressure from repeating a scene again and again was both demoralizing and tiring. Now I know how Christian Bale must’ve felt while acting in Terminator Salvation. Even so, participating in a film is one of the best experience in my life. I look forward to work alongside my group with Dan Khoo and Brian Lee again in the future.
PS: As I reached home and unpacked my stuff after filming was over, I realized my uniform left a shallow puddle inside the bag (and I mean shallow and splashy!). I sweat a bottle worth of water in my gear! D:
Anything you wish to ask or comment regarding the movie? Refer to the FAQ section for answers.
lol I like how u do the transition from M4 to handgun and then half the M4 gets “erased.” Very impressive overall, but quite a number of tactical mistakes commonly found in Hollywood movies too. You dont close in to a hostile area in just one approach. You don’t move the whole unit across an open area in one go. You don’t pass a window without crouching, high-crawling underneath it or clear the room first. You never run across your team mate’s line of fire while he is giving u covering fire, for obvious reasons. You shouldnt give the thumbs up to thank your mates while still in combat, a nod should do, not to mention it’s way cool too haha. And lastly, never allow the hostage to pick up a weapon becoz u never know if she is really the hostage or has been “turned” aka Stockholm Syndrome.
And next time, get some GBBs and not AEGs haha
and also some flashbangs, whats a hostage rescue without turning people blind and deaf! haha
and oh, u r one man short, duhh where’s your sniper?
Gee, I thought I’ve already covered everything in the FAQ. This is getting seriously tiring, but because I have the obligation to do so, I shall go through this the thousandth time:
- Do not complain about ‘realism’. Everyone in this film has no military experience and we volunteer for free to do this film. Furthermore, the movie was never intended to be realistic in the first place; it’s merely a sequence of typical action movie scene. If you have taken part in this movie, did the acting, repeating the same scene over and over, cramped your back and sweat a gallon in hours of acting for the sake of a few minutes of scene making it through the cut, nothing pisses you off more than armchair commandos from the Chairborne Piefinder Division overanalyzing a movie that is already a purely Hollywood work of fiction in the first place and wonder why do they even have to bother calling it unrealistic twice.
- Flashbangs? We’re kinda lacking props. One of those replica gas chargers shaped like a flashbang goes for about RM150 each. Wanna help contribute?
- Where’s the sniper you ask? Know what, we’re one man short. It’s not easy arranging the flow of sequences and events in the film; cramming in more actors means more things need to be revised and replanned. Trying to find someone with the moolah for combat gears is near impossible because everyone prefers hiding out in a cave and using a goddamn keyboard to become their own movie critic. Wanna do us a favour and become our sniper next time? Do pass your resume to Dan Khoo Productions.
lol, firstly, chill bro, that’s what constructive criticism is all about. If u don’t want anyone to comment on your artistic works, then go produce a movie for RTM and never have to improve. Secondly, none of the stuff is mentioned in your FAQ except for the general statement that the whole thing is “unrealistic.”
Using unpaid extras or casts for a shoot is no excuse for a bad movie. Duhhh u think anyone in Youtube is paid?
RM150 for flashbangs? Errr… u made a scene of a tactical team rescue with all the props and u couldnt improvise on a can of talc power glued to a window latch? As for the extra man, dude, u r all in black and ski-masks, u think anyone knows the different players? BTW the sniper is positioned alone or with a spotter so u can shoot the scene separately with the same people n stick a long pipe into the M4 n u get an instant M4 DMR.
Lastly, I think I earn some right to comment on your mistakes as you posted this crap (not really coz I did say it was a good effort overall) on the net and I wasted 10 minutes of my life (which I will never get back) watching it lol.
PS dude, why u dont visit MACLUB anymore? lol
PS. sweating in your pants n weighed down by the gear? Been there, done that, no problem hahah