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Joe Taslim, Iko Uwais, Julie Estelle, Zack Lee, Shareefa Daanish, Abimana Aryasatya, Hannah Al Rashid, Dian Sastrowardoyo, Sunny Pang, Ronny P. Tjandra (több)Streaming (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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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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Egy verekedős mészárlás. A történet itt csak ürügy arra, hogy a figurákat a cséplőgépekbe helyezzék. És még több figurát (és női figurát) még több cséplőgépbe. A barátságról és árulásról szóló párkapcsolati dráma itt körülbelül annyira működik, mint egy késszúrás a hasba - a kést vigyorral kihúzzák, és öt perc múlva, a következő verekedésnél már senki nem emlékszik rá. Mondjuk például A rajtaütés 2 esztétikus volt, a színeknek ott nagy szerepe volt. Ugyanez a John Wick: 2. felvonás. Ez csak mocskos, koszos mészárlás finom "gore" részletekkel. És azokat nagyon élveztem, de nem eléggé ahhoz, hogy jobb értékelést adjak.
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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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For the first time without his brother, Timo Tjahjanto delivers another action gem that will definitely put a smile on your face, and as it works perfectly as a replacement for the cancelled The Raid 3. It's worth noting that Timo made his name with the horror film Macabre (still one of the most brutal exploitation films ever) so the primary fiddle is played by gore and violence, which is abundant here, and I really like his approach to the genre because he is one of the few to push the boundaries, show things that are taboo and shy away from absolutely nothing. That fascinates me because Americans can be quietly envious. Acting wise the film is top notch, it brings together a familiar cast, but it took me a little to get used to Iko Uwais being a villain, but thankfully Joe Taslim has charisma to spare, but surprisingly Julie Estelle shines the most, she immediately needs her own solo outing. The action hardly takes its foot off the gas it's one ultra brutal carnage where everyone is slashing with whatever is at hand, limbs are broken in all sorts of ways and multiple fighting styles are used. Tjahjanto revels in lethal destruction and I go crazy right along with him. The biggest highlight is definitely Julie Estelle versus two lesbians, and I don't think there has been a better female fight, and of course the finale, which takes the best of The Raid 2, and Joe Taslim versus Uwais as a battle of brothers was quite emotional, and of course the choreography can't be faulted. Not just to praise, there are of course some issues. I found the visuals rather average, at times I felt the characters were surviving the impossible and I was a little disappointed that there was no new action discovery. But these are irrelevant little things that didn't spoil the experience for me. Anyone who likes confident action, uncompromising and brutal films will be satisfied. Those who slept through Steven Seagal, Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme will probably grumble. An action fan can't go below 3* here. I'm looking forward to May the Devil Take You and hope that in the years to come the Mo Brothers will continue to satisfy me, because there aren't that many smart filmmakers out there right now. 90%
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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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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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This action thriller about the toughest gangs of the Asian underworld balances on the border between bloody entertainment and unpleasantly violent cruelty, when imaginative and technically perfect action shootouts and trick-based, make-up and choreographically embellished contact fights change from a juicy attraction for the hardy to an extremely brutal mutilation show. In terms of recent films it is perhaps comparable to The Raid 2, but it goes a bit further (the director was officially allowed to have free reign by Netflix, which he made exceptional use of). In the first half the story is a slightly chaotic jumble of constantly dying characters fighting each other on two sides of a barricade, between which they run all over the place and undercut each other, to the extent that the viewer loses interest in the protagonists and stops caring about how the film is going to end and is just looking forward to the next action sequence. Fortunately, this settles down in the second half. Who is against who is clearly defined, and the rest is a feverish massacre with physically intense action passages, which there are not that many of, but they are long and hellishly dense.
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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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The Night Comes for Us dangerously breathes down the neck of its rival in the same genre (Raid 1 and Raid 2). Once again, Iko Uwais appears, but this time he was handed the script and simply told, "Play the villain." I'm not at all used to that, but so be it. The story is somewhat lacking, but then again, The Raid doesn't boast much in that department either, and look at the classic it turned out to be. I could easily see Joe Taslim in a Hollywood blockbuster, as he truly has talent. When it comes to the action scenes, all I can say is FANTASTIC work. Seriously. At moments, my jaw literally dropped (um, I mean, my lower jaw), because choreography like this is rarely seen. And those gore scenes, WOW, simply WOW! No blood was spared, and each kill was truly brutal. The highlight scene for me isn't even the final fight between Taslim and Uwais, but rather the ultimate showdown between Julie Estelle and two female assassins. It has great camera work, the fight itself was processed very quickly but clearly, and the use of colors was outstanding. Not even Tarantino in Kill Bill reached such a high level of quality. The ending was surprising, and while I wouldn't expect a sequel, it's true that with Julie Estelle in the lead, it could probably work. Over time, I might even consider giving it the highest rating, as I see potential for a cult classic here. I give it 84%.
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