Review: The Night Comes For Us
- Oct 22, 2018
- 2 min read
It's not The Raid, but it'll do.
Ito (Joe Taslim) is a Six Seas, one of the triads top lieutenants. When he saves a young girl, Reina (Asha Kenyeri Bermudez) from a massacre, Ito finds himself in the sights of his former employers. Coming after him are the remaining Six Seas, and it'll take all he has to protect Reina and battle the waves of thugs and expert killers, among them his one time friend Arian (Iko Uwais), intent on killing him.
First things first. If you're of a squeamish disposition, skip this one. Seriously, things get unpleasant very quickly. Director Timo Tjahjanto isn't messing around when it come to graphic, kinetic violence. It's great to Uwais in a good action film following the atrocious excuse for a movie that was Mile 22. Joe Taslim, an actor introduced to me in The Raid, makes a compelling argument for himself in a lead role. He kicks, punches, shoots, stabs and wields just about everything that isn't bolted down, and somethings that, in a film that is 85% percent action and 15% forgettable.
So yeah, the plot isn't much to talk about, and it quickly gets lost in between the action but you know what? I don't care. I wasn't interested in engaging characters or a deep plot. Like The Raid before it, more so the sequel, The Night Comes For Us is a series of lengthy action scenes loosely intertwined by uninteresting dialogue. Who is the motorbike girl? No idea, but when she goes 2v1 against Kukri-Girl and the girl with the garrote wire, that was cool. Why is Arian trying to kill his friend? Who cares, the ten minute bare knuckle brawl that caps off the film waves away any misgivings there may have been. Why are there dozens of machete wielding lunatics trying to kill a child and how are three seemingly ordinary guys holding them off? Doesn't matter, someone just got tossed out a window and another has been stabbed six times and it still fighting.
The Night Comes For Us is an excess of violence with a body count and graphic content that compare to even the most violent of slasher films. It flip-flops between the more grounded action of The Raid and the absurd bloodshed of Kill Bill, merging the two into something ceaselessly entertaining.
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