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=Ah Boys to Men 3: Frogmen=

Ah Boys to Men 3: Frogmen (新兵正传III：蛙人传 in Simplified Chinese) is a 2015 Singaporean "comedy" film produced and directed by Jack Neo. It stars Wang Weiliang, Maxi Lim, Joshua Tan, Charlie Goh, Tosh Zhang, Bunz Bao, Jaspers Lai, Hanrey Low, Wesley Wong]] and Gadrick Chin in the third installment. It was released in cinemas on 19 February 2015. The film raked in $2.83 million at the box office within four days, making it the first Asian film with the highest ever box office takings in its opening weekend in Singapore.

Plot
The film negates all happenings in the predecessors and explores what might have happened should the boys have been assigned to Singapore's Naval Diving Unit (NDU). The movie offers a peek into the intensive training regime of the NDU, which have never been revealed so far. Together, the boys must survive 40 weeks of hell to become Frogmen, one of Singapore's most fearsome military units.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) This movie, in a nutshell can be described as violent, abusive and mean-spirited towards all the naval soldiers. It also a huge insult towards army sergeants because in this movie they are described as human torturers when they actually are not in real life.
 * 2) False Advertising: This movie is claimed to be a 3rd sequel in the Ah Boys To Men franchise, when it barely is, and is just a retelling of what if the characters in the previous 2 movies went to NDU instead of basic National Service, making this movie overall unnecessary.
 * 3) *This also meant that the character development in the previous 2 movies was gone, as the characters' personality have been reseted to theirs at the beginning of the movie. For example, Ken went back to being spoilt brat despite being more matured at the end of the second film.
 * 4) There is loads of padding, with about nearly 120 minutes of seeing the soldiers getting harassed, abused and tortured beyond words by the sergeants. It doesn't help that even soldiers who were not involved in offences had to be involved in punishments. Now that's just cruel!
 * 5) Second Warrant Officer BT Lum is the WORST character the entire movie. He is very poorly written and only exists as the huge expense of all the soldiers. He only knows how to abuse them to the point where he could be arrested for such offenses.
 * 6) Incredibly cringey dialogue, mostly from Second Warrant Officer BT Lum, whose dialogue mostly consists of sarcastic Singaporean lingo and swear words (especially the s-word).
 * 7) New characters were introduced out of nowhere, such as Hei Long Shek,
 * 8) Like the previous 2 movies, the characters (old and new) are very cliched.
 * 9) *Hei Long Shek is stereotypical gang member who quits just because "he decided to become a soldier".
 * 10) Ken's sub-plot with Amy was really unneeded, and it happens to drag out all the way where he loses his temper in front of the sergeants.
 * 11) Some disgusting moments, such as when Hei Long made his spit fall into Lobang's mouth during a CPR exercise.
 * 12) The infamous hell week scene. No words can describe the pain, suffering and torture that the soldiers go through. The soldiers are treated like poop and forced to do inhuman things like crawling on the floor, exercise for long hours, have water and sand splashed on their face (which is very dangerous), taking ice spas (which can cause hypothermia) and being unable go back to sleep.
 * 13) One questionable scene: One of Hei Long's accomplice sneaks into NDU at night to pass food to him. But Warrant Lum disguises as a recruit and takes the food, as if he is one of Hei Long's friends. Then, he wakes all the soldiers and forces them to eat the food, and resulting in everyone getting punished to exercise until someone would tell the truth for violating the "no outside food" rule. He actually made the soldiers break the rules. What kind of action is that?!

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Very good acting (although there is a lot of yelling), especially from Joshua Tan, Tosh Zhang and Wesley Wong.
 * 2) *Justin Dominic Misson also does a decent job playing Warrant Lum, despite wasted talent.
 * 3) The concept of NDU training in a movie was pretty interesting, but was better executed as a spin-off movie with different characters altogether.
 * 4) Great soundtrack, including the song, "Who Else" by Tosh Zhang.
 * 5) Some funny moments, like how the soldiers are treated heavenly at mealtimes during the infamous hell week sequence.
 * 6) Lobang's sub-plot regarding his mother going insane due to drug abuse was better than the rest of the movie.
 * 7) There are a handful of heartwarming scenes, such as Ken redeeming himself from being kicked out of NDU by running laps around the track even when it was raining, and of course, the one scene where Warrant Lum admits his mistake of not understanding Lobang's family situation and punishing himself.
 * 8) *Speaking of that, Lobang's speech about why he snuck out of NDU is a good message that "Nothing Stands In Our Way".
 * 9) Despite being mean-spirited, the scene where Ken loses his cool in front of the army sergeants is somewhat satisfying.
 * 10) The prologue and epilogue of the naval soldiers conducting a ship raid was truly exciting.

Reception
This movie has been widely panned by critics and movie viewers worldwide, often calling out the "violence, abuse, torture and misuse of sergeants and soldiers" and "claimed simply unsettling and cringey". For some reason it has a 6.8/10 rating on IMDb.

Full Movie
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