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Apprentice (2016)

2016 96 min Jun 1, 2016

Storyline

Aiman is a 28-year-old Malay correctional officer who is recently transferred to the territory’s top prison. Aiman lives with his older sister Suhaila in a modest housing estate. At his new workplace, Aiman begins to take an interest in a 65-year-old sergeant named Rahim. Soon, it is revealed that the charismatic Rahim is actually the long-serving chief executioner of the prison. Rahim also takes notice of the principled and diligent Aiman. When Rahim’s assistant suddenly quits, he asks Aiman to become his apprentice. Aiman tells Suhaila of his new job position, but Suhaila becomes upset, as their father was actually executed by Rahim. Aiman knew this all along. Can Aiman overcome his conscience and a haunted past to possibly take over as the next chief executioner?

Release DateJune 1, 2016
Runtime96 minutes
Ratings
(3 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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90
Boyd van Hoeij
One of Apprentice’s strongest selling points is how, in a very compact yet pleasingly dense way, it takes viewers into both the world of the executioners and the executed criminals’ family members who remain behind, two often almost ignored categories in films touching on capital punishment.
90
Lisa Nesselson
Tightly focused and ambitious in its multiple themes, the tale touches on how the death penalty radiates out to affect the living.
88
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Writer-director Boo Junfeng casually reinvigorates the prison drama, boiling its elements down to their primal essence.
80
Village Voice
Nick Schager
In a finale rife with twisted feelings of resentment, fury, and self-loathing, the film transforms into a grave meditation on the corrosive shadow cast by the decisions, and crimes, of yesterday.
80
Stephen Holden
At first Apprentice seems to be a basic revenge film in which Aiman stalks the man who killed his father. But it becomes psychologically more complex.

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