The Night Comes for Us (2018)

My first thought when I saw this one released: New Iko Uwais movie? Must see!

And boy did I get more and more disappointed the longer the movie went on. "The Raid" was a good example of really good mass fight choreography where 20 vs. 1 didn't mean 19 people waiting and it actually being twenty 1 on 1 fights. This movie is the PERFECT example of twenty opponents awaiting their turn to get slaughtered. There is not a lot of finesse, this movie is all about gore and maximum brutallity, leaving the "good" guys shredded to pieces and continue fighting in an absolutely unbeliebavble state of injury.

If you are able to COMPLETELY suspend ANY disbelief, your totally fine with oponents in fight scenes doing the pause after one move until the good guy destroys them routine, mass fights with bad guys attack one after another, and don't need any kind of story when it's a good gorefest, then this is for you.

That said... Purely as a gorefest it is fantastic! Blood and guts everywhere, bodyparts are getting cut off, places get totally trashed, tons of broken bones in almost every scene, more cuts and slices than in any butcher shop - oh wait, except for the butcher shop scene in this one :) - and did I mention BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD? For the artistic and imaginative gorefest it is, I gave it 5 stars

Alas I expected more of a martial arts movie featuring Iko Uwais having seen his other movies with way better and more believable choreography, so this was a huge disappointment for me. And for my taste they were trying so very much too hard to make this look and feel like one of the classic heroic bloodshed movies John Woo did in his earlier career, going waaay over the top with it, there were moments I felt a bit digusted at that.

Bottom line: Great for gorelovers, painful if suspension of disbelief doesn't come easy for you, so and so for martial arts fans.

Fmovies: You think you've seen it all? Action, blood, guts, brains, bullets, body parts, broken teeth, sliced fingers, chopped heads, smashed heads, broken skulls, broken bones, protruding bones, hmmm? Think you've seen it all? SMH ... you haven't... until you watch this film.

Watchers beware, this film is not for the faint of heart. If you plan on becoming an active war medic, or a member of the cartel torture squad... well you get my point. ..

It have not a well-known plot and you dont understand that who was the girl and where she came ahn what is her role?

The Night Comes for Us fmovies. Anyone who compares this to The Raid should watch it again. Let me explain.

Story: Now, everyone recognizes that there is practically no story. But that's different from a legitimately bad story. Take The Raid: Redemption & John Wick for example. Both of them have the bare bones minimum for a story, and that makes it enjoyable & fun to watch. However, the story actually detracts from the enjoyability because of how stupid some of the character decisions made are. The main character should have honestly been killed many times over, but he had some of the best plot armor I've seen in a long time. So when you get to the action scenes, you can't immerse yourself & enjoy it as much because there's the nagging feeling of "this shouldn't even be happening." Which leads into the next & probably worst issue within the movie.

Consistency: There is none. The main character's durability & endurance is however much is necessary. You look at some of the things he gets knocked out, and then all of a sudden he becomes a walking tank at other times. The reason this is such a big issue is once again due to immersion. I can't bring myself to enjoy the fight scene if the whole time I feel that the main character got a magical power up straight from his ass. Both of The Raid m movies, both the John Wick movies, and the Killzone series (underrated but highly recommend for a good action fix) never have that issue. Everything makes sense because it feels like the character could have actually done that, due to proper setup & characterization.

Action: I do have to give praise to the action & choreography, from a technical standpoint. If I'm viewing it without considering the attachment of the stupidity of the narrative, they're done very well. As others have said, it's violent & gritty (for an action movie, most certainly not the most violent movie you'll have seen in 2018 if you enjoy gore & seek it out) which creates an impressive wow-factor. Once again though, I'm unable to appreciate it as much due to how dumb the situation itself is.

Misc Issues: This movie had poor use of background music. The music in most action flicks is very subtle, as it should be. But when it's not there it, as with everything in this movie, detracts from the immersion. The camerawork was good majority of the time but it betrayed itself often. There were points when you could literally see someone standing in the background not doing anything. Compared to the fluidity of both of The Raid movies, it was sad. Enemies almost always came one at a time, & you could feel that.

Pros: The only reason I would say to watch this movie is for the fight scenes with one particular character. The motorcycle woman, as I've dubbed her( she's never named as far as I recall), had the best action scenes by far. Far superior to the main character's, and this is mostly due to the fact that her character was one of the few that were consistent. Everything she was capable of doing was believable because they did proper setup for her. The main character was just so damn inconsistent in his power scaling that you wanted to shoot him yourself.

Anyways, if you read all this I'm impressed. At the end of the day, as always, you should take a look for yourself & see what you think. If you're able to get around all that you might find some joy in the movie. But personally, I would recommend against it strongly.

I've been needing a good insane action movie fix for a while now, and this was definitely it. Once this movie ramps up, it never comes back down. Nonstop incredible action all the way through. This film is amazing at using its surroundings to its advantage. A fight scene in a butchers room? Every cleaver, slab of meat, meat hook, and bone becomes a weapon. Fight next to a pool table? Pool balls and pool sticks used in the most brutal way possible. The fight choreography is phenomenal and I was almost convinced they were just beating the piss out of the actors. This movie is such a brutal and fun time, a great movie to watch with a room full of energetic friends.

For those who thought that The Raid 1 & 2 were the last word in kinetic, ultra-brutal martial arts movies, think again: The Night Comes For Us, from director Timo Tjahjanto, is a strong contender for the most excessively violent, blood-drenched action flick ever made. The film's many fight scenes are wonderfully choreographed and flawlessly executed, Tjahanto's breath-taking direction employing shooting techniques that are guaranteed to astound, although it's the sheer quantity of blood and guts that really impresses.

The film stars Joe Taslim as triad member Ito, who seeks redemption for all the terrible things that he has done by saving a young girl, Reina (Asha Kenyeri Bermudez), from his hit squad. Having gunned down his own men and escaped with the girl, Ito finds himself targeted by the triad's top killers, who include Raid star Iko Uwais as his old pal Arian, Julie Estelle (The Raid 2's Hammer Girl) as a motorcycle-riding assassin, and a pair of lesbian hit-women: Elena (Hannah Al Rashid), who is armed with a kukri knife, and Alma (Dian Sastrowardoyo), who wields a whirling wire weapon.

As Ito, aided by his loyal friends Bobby (Zack Lee), Fatih (Abimana Aryasatya) and Wisnu (Dimas Anggara), battles to protect Reina, viewers are treated to all manner of graphic violence: bodies are beaten and mutilated, necks are slashed, and bones are broken. A man is hung on a meathook, someone is machine gunned in the face, and a grenade rips another poor bloke to pieces. There's a shotgun blast to the foot, a knife through the neck, a severed hand, an evisceration, pool balls to the skull, a hook in the crotch, a utility knife in the mouth (and through the cheek), and more bullet hits and stabbings than I can recall. The stuntwork is amazing and it's hard to believe that no-one was seriously injured.

The carnage is so spectacular that it's easy to forgive the simplicity of the plot (the narrative is not nearly as involved as The Raid 2; it's more akin to the original Raid movie in terms of complexity).