Blu-ray Review – 23:59

Most horror films are content to manufacture a single menace, concocting
a spirit, demon, or monster to terrorize innocents, using the run time
to expand on the motivation of the otherworldly antagonist. The
Malaysian fright fest "23:59" somehow settles on at least five different
directions of torment, allowing itself only 75 minutes to establish and
figure out the design of doom. It's a messy, unconvincing picture
emerging from a knowing place of experience, with monotonous barrack
life in military service the setting for Gilbert Chan's effort, pouring
his history with ghost stories and urban legends into a movie that
should really only take on a single evil entity at a time. Overwhelmed
and undercooked, "23:59" is earnestly acted, helping to ease obvious
directorial discomfort, but there's too much going in this small-scale
endeavor, which loses coherency the longer it engages in constant
gear-shifting when approaching the formation of an engrossing paranormal
villain. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com