The Night Comes for Us (2018) by Timo Tjahjanto

[cranefly]

Iko Uwais and others manage to pack 3 hours of fighting into a 2-hour movie, and still have time for dead spots.

A pretty weak script, to my mind, without compelling characters and muddled motivations.  Everyone is mad at everyone, even themselves, which (hope I'm not giving too much away) leads to fights.

The fights are fair to impressive, well worth watching for that alone.  Though even some of the best fights drag on to the point that I started daydreaming.

Some serious character-building and clear-cut motivations could have brought this up several notches.

Overall, very bloody and brutal -- prompting flashbacks of my ER days where I was constantly muttering, "How the hell did they get that kind of injury?" or "why is this guy [gal] still alive?"

Though to be honest I never worked in ER.

[Drunk Monk]

I've worked in an ER.  It's one of those things you have to do as part of EMT certification.  And I give this full endorsement for tasty DOOM ultravi.  Indonesian cinema has its own unique brand of fight films, gritty, brutal, sanguineous, intense.  Part Kung Fu, part gorefest, part anime style.  This is them at the top of their game.  The first fight splatters with an echo of the slaughterhouse fight in Chocolate, taking the meathook to new depths.  Then fight after fight after fight. Sword fights. Cat fights. Gun fights. Kukri vs. Wakazashi. Bone saws, table saws, billiard balls, box cutters, rusty nails and tacks, such mayhem that my pot pie went cold during the finale fights because I couldn't take my eyes off the screen - so glued to the action.  Nice cinematography too.  Character building?  WTH? It's a clan of drug cartel assassins and one wants out so the rest have to kill him setting up the ol' Game of Death in grimy cartel hangout warehouses.  Honestly, you need more for this kind of flick?  I was highly entertained and found myself chuckling at some of the tasty bits of ultravi.  Real horrorshow.  So gratuitous that I could feel the rest of DOOM chuckling beside me.  

But you do have a point about that "why is this guy still alive?"  That's solved in one scene but that in no way makes up for all the other scenes.  You just gotta suspend belief there, I suppose.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

DOOM Epic. I ❤️ Julie “Hammer Girl” Estelle.

[Drunk Monk]

 I ❤️ Julie “Hammer Girl” Estelle.

Right? I hope she gets a cinematic match-up against Jeeja Yanin some day. That would be the Martial cat fight of the decade.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

The girl-on-girl-on-girl fight was pretty damn fun.

[Drunk Monk]

Agreed.

I have a strange soft spot for the box cutter through the cheek scene too. And all the cutting out of legs  - that always reminds me of one of Stro’s lessons to drive opponents off the Sabre strip.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

I watched The Raid II just for Hammer Girl. It was just as awesome as all the other movies, but the violence was not as closely choreographed. The “waiting in line to attack one at a time” was too obvious. Hammer Girl’s Hammer-Fu was fun, but her fights in more recent movies were much tighter.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Introduced Harriett to the concept of “Ultra-Vi” with John Wick (+/- a month ago) and tonight with this film. It was a roaring success.

[Drunk Monk]

I knew there was something I liked about Harriet.