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Timo TjahjantoScreenplay:
Timo TjahjantoCinematography:
Gunnar NimpunoCast:
Joe Taslim, Iko Uwais, Julie Estelle, Zack Lee, Shareefa Daanish, Abimana Aryasatya, Hannah Al Rashid, Dian Sastrowardoyo, Sunny Pang, Ronny P. Tjandra (more)VOD (1)
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After sparing a girl's life during a massacre, an elite Triad assassin is targeted by an onslaught of murderous gangsters. (Netflix)
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A brutal splatter romp, with a story, so to speak, about a hitman who rethinks his priorities at the last minute and doesn't shoot a little girl, then goes on to kills dozens of punks to protect her. It's an impressive fighting game, unspoiled by the traditionally extremely fast-paced Asian action full of incredible stunts. But unlike The Raid 2, which it wants so much to resemble, it doesn't have the epic breadth of plot or the refined visual aesthetic. All that's left is a similar brawler, with a poorer plot but a hell of a style and finally more space for Julie Estelle.
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The Raid gave us top-shelf choreography that didn’t make you feel ashamed and made shake head in disbelief at how anyone could make such a fabulous thing. With The Night Comes for Us, I was thinking exactly the opposite. The fact that there is no story was clear from the beginning and nobody demanded it, the fact that the gore works perfectly as far as blood is concerned is also a huge plus, but the fact that the action is so damn stupid, unbelievable, with fights that are so overly engineered and at times even embarrassing is unforgivable in this genre. A woman who kills people with a ball on a wire and "cuts" their limbs with it, a dude who throws a machete at his enemy's back, spins around and the machete in his hand starts cutting everyone around him, and that's how you they do 1v20. Yes, if you are a moron with a double-digit IQ, that would probably be enough, but for someone who wants at least basic logic, it's not going to work. Ridiculous. And Iko Uwais is on screen for about 20 minutes here:)))
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Slaughter filmed in a highly cultivated style. The story is just chaotic filler between action scenes full of raw meat, bones and blood. The characters have strange motivations and frequently behave illogically, but that doesn’t really matter too much. Friends from The Raid simply had a bit of fun together and give us several unforgettable fight scenes and painful moments served on a silver platter. Uwais seems to quite enjoy his unconventional role, but his performance is more or less standard. Julie Estelle reserved for herself the best fight involving two lesbian killers. Girl power!
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The first twenty minutes are like torture and a test of your patience, because Tjahjanto tries to build something like a fateful plot and relationships between the characters. But not a single, even average actor, acts in this movie, and the author himself is a completely hopeless screenwriter. So, you're just waiting for him to finally realize what kind of experienced street-fighter he has in his cast (it's like having Messi available for a football match and instead of letting him on the field, you're dealing with dolphin extinction on the bench) and he finds a damn excuse, so that they can hit each other hard. And as soon as he finds the excuse by entering the butcher shop, you know what is going on. Yes, the style of action is like Raid 1.5. No, Tjahjanto is not Gareth Evans, but he copies the action from him skillfully. Contact battles alternate with mass massacres with the machete, including some shootout, a chase ... Every now and then, it's a different type of event. There are three connecting elements; playful raw choreography (all tribute to the performance of stuntmen), dynamic yet well-arranged camera and absolute adoration of senselessly excessive unjustified gore-slaughterhouse violence, which not everyone can take. Especially when it is true that the plot / dialogs / tensions between the characters (they appear out of nowhere and disappear somewhere) are purely for the form, as the author read somewhere that every movie should have such elements. I advise you well, jump right the butcher shop scene and after about ten minutes it will suddenly be clear to you whether you have discovered your new guilty pleasure cult or if just can´t understand “what kind of perverted sadistic beasts the Indonesians are" and you turn it off in disgust. But before you turn it off, at least watch the final ten-minute battle of Taslim versus Uwais; it is pure genre joy.
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A bloody action flick from Indonesia with shooting, stabbing, cutting, chopping, breaking and beating aplenty – all happening as a truly sublime and jaw-dropping choreography of rough fights. The pacey direction is full of little gems and entertains from start to finish. I don’t know what else to say. In short, it’s a must see – an absolute must for The Raid 1 and 2 fans. [Sitges 2018]
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