Timo Tjahjanto
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There’s nary a breather between set-pieces, and an eye-popping number of sly references to the genre’s forebearers (at one moment, a slash-and-dash nod to Takashi Miike’s Ichi the Killer; at another, a very small call-back to the mace Gogo Yubari wields in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, itself inspired by Jimmy Wang Yu’s Master of the Flying Guillotine).
Blood-soaked Indonesian martial arts flick "Headshot" is for anyone who liked " The Bourne Identity ," but wished it were way more violent.
Indonesian action star Iko Uwais plays an amnesiac hoodlum dragged back into a world of violence in this bone-breaking and bloody mash-up of Kill Bill and The Bourne Identity.
Headshot has a pretty succinct pitch: “The Bourne Identity meets Kill Bill starring Iko Uwais”.
The plot is very much The Bourne Identity , if Jason Bourne were covered in blood through most of the film.
That plot is familiar to you, because you’ve seen The Bourne Identity , featuring the nearly-drowned-super-killer-with-amnesia and maybe even The Raid , featuring Uwais.
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
Directed by Chad Stahelski
influenced by The Night Comes for Us (2018)
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Stylistic appeal blends Akira Kurosawa with Walter Hill, or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with Indonesia’s massive genre movement à la The Raid to The Night Comes For Us , because John Wick movies have always been at their best when ignoring bulkier, bodyslammy American tendencies.
If you’ve been a fan of Indonesian film since Gareth Huw Evans one-upped modern action cinema with 2011’s The Raid: Redemption and then again with 2014’s The Raid 2, or if you liked Indonesian film before it was cool thanks to either Merantau, Evans’ 2009 sophomore effort, or Macabre, Tjahjanto and Stamboel’s first feature collaboration, then you’re probably already jonesing for Headshot and the sweet release of brutally kinetic fight scenes where human beings sustain more injuries per second than anyone should be able to take before dropping dead.
The Raid is a high bar to set for action movies, but since it’s my only frame of reference for Indonesian action cinema, it is, for better or worse, the standard I set for similar movies.
I’m don’t want to compare Headshot to Gareth Evans’ intangible duology with Uwais, The Raid 1 and 2, but it’s unavoidable.
His debut film “Merantu” set the stage for his breakout role in “The Raid,” which he followed with “The Raid 2,” and a part in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” which you probably blinked and missed.
This lethally brutal exercise in Indonesian martial-arts mayhem — featuring the charismatic Iko Uwais (“The Raid” franchise), a living, breathing action figure and Indonesia’s best-known martial-arts star — is definitely not for the squeamish nor anyone who has just eaten lunch.
But they venture into the silat action genre with this combustible collaboration with Iko Uwais, the iconic star of Gareth Evans's The Raid and its 2014 sequel.