Indonesian action cinema announced itself to the world with The Raid, Gareth Evans's 2011 Jakarta-set thriller that made the country's martial art, pencak silat, a global export overnight. That film kicked off a wave of brutally choreographed genre work, with The Night Comes for Us continuing the tradition. See what Macca made of it all below.
Rating: 2.5★
There is a long and restless tradition in world cinema of using the horror genre as a vessel for social and political anxieties, particularly around bodies, identity, and the pressures of conformity. From the body-horror provocations of Cronenberg through to the folk-inflected dread of more recent European and
Rating: 2.5★
When Gareth Evans and Iko Uwais unleashed The Raid on the world in 2011, the response was somewhere between astonishment and mild disbelief. A Welsh director working in Indonesia with a relatively modest budget had produced one of the most viscerally efficient action films in years, a single-location siege
Genre Horror
★★½ — The Elixir (2025)
Genre Action
★★★ — The Raid (2011)
Genre Action
★★½ — The Night Comes for Us (2018)
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