Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Satsuma wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
The Night Comes For Us: liked The Raid but thought it wasn’t brutal enough? Want more Indonesian brawling with some of the same cast? Netflix has you covered. It was fucking great.
This guy was not kidding. Holy flying fuck.
If anything, it might be too brutal. There's some knife work and limb-snapping that's flat out wincing to watch. They must have gotten a great deal on job lots of fake blood and rubber machetes.
Did you watch it all after? My favourite scene, I think, is in the second half:
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the fight between The Operator (who is cool. as. fuck.) and Elena/Alma.
There’s a LOT of CGI blood, it’s more noticeable in the pool fight and the fight with Arian than the rest of the film but I thought the CGI blood was done well. I prefer fake blood effects but there’s not a lot to complain about when, say, someone has a knife pushed through the side of their mouth. The violence did feel a little gratuitous but I’m not going to moan about that in a kung-fu flick cause that’s what I came to see!
The Operator was sexy as fuck! Loving the one-armed costume straight out of a cosplay convention. It’s nice to see women slug it out as good as the men. Talking of gratuitous, “that death” was gratuitous as they decided:
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Lets have her fingers pop off just before she finally succums to the wire around her neck and chocks to death with the camera just capturing her last moments.
But my fave fight was the insane
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knife fight against the ever growing gang of hoodlums.
Actually since that was too similar to the scene in The Raid I’m going for
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Ito and Arian slowly and painfully destroying each other.
No, actually that was like the fluorescent tube scene in The Raid (turned up to 10), so I’m going to finally rest on...
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The little girl endlessly stabbing that guy in the eyes with a flick knife as he tries to grab her through the back window of the car. I laughed as it was happening because it was so goddamn messed up; I’m sure my brain couldn’t process it quick enough.
Best fighting film I’ve seen since The Raid. Kevin out of 10.