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It's weird to watch an Indonesian flick with all speaking English. But it's a good attempt n good hard work by the actors to make it happen. Kudos. Overall its a good action flict. Story line is a so so n it seems there's a sequal to it. Catch the first end credits for it.

Really bad movies, lots of plothole, bad CGI, awkward accent, boring conversation, poorly made setup, and bla bla bla, bla bla bla. But! This is the first Indonesian movie that use intensive CGI and trying to reach the level of hollywood action movies, let's appreciate it! And also the fact that it has quite unique story really surprise me! Still a long way to go, lots of room to improve, but thanks for trying!

So after following the progress of the movie from the first genre back ten years ago, the expectation for this movie has been very high. And the hype being generated upon the release added to the high expectation.

Upon watching the movie i liked it for the most part, the CG is amazing (although it feel that in some places the CG was purposely made sub par), the characters were good, and the story was great.

Gun action scene were great, a few questions popped up here and there, but overall great.

Action fight scene were also great, a few camera angle misses that showed things that should have been edited better, but overall the fight scenes were fast paced, brutal and horrific...all the elements that people want to see in a good fight

This is definitely a step forward for Indonesian film making, hope to see more equal or even better quality movie than this one

I was hoping this movie will open up its doors to new era for Indonesian action movies.

Boy I was so wrong.

The incoherent storytelling continuously distract viewers from immersing into the narrative. There were so many scenes which I didnt understand the reason its happening or some scenes are just way too incoherent that made me laugh due to script's absurdity.

At the same time the horrendous dialogues and one liners, seems it was written by a 7th grade action movie fanatic who just copied and pasted all those cliched dialogues from 80s action movies.

At one point one character expresses his emption in three random words 'How?' 'Why?' and 'Nevermind!'. That terrible line made the actor to perform worst acting in his career.

At least I was expecting some decent action set pieces. But then again what I got was uninspired action set pieces one after another. Just few scenes with anime wanna be actions with terrible stunt choreographies.

And then there is this SOUND MIXING...

The sound in this movie is just unbearable for your ears. From awkward dialogues I mentioned earlier to terrible voice over. The worst part of sound mixing is during action scenes where sound engineers just amped up the volume so high as if the pistol is firing a canon. The sound effects just scream in your ear over and over again til your eardrum gets numb.

If this movie was released on Youtube instead, as "Fan Made Call of Duty Movie! " it might've caught high school fanboys' attention.

Sorry Indonesia, this is not the future of your cinema

There is a global food shortage. Indonesian president Indra vows to solve the problem. A secret cabal intends to launch a coup. Angga learns the true ruthlessness of the plan while discovering his ex has founded an underground group.

This is a mess. I don't know anything about writer/director Randy Korompis but he seems to be a newbie. It shows. I was hoping for Raid. Maybe it could be Netflix level action. The story telling is jagged. Suddenly, an invisible cloak turns this into a superhero movie for a minute. It tries to be a thriller but the writing is a muddle. I am willing to give this points for looking pretty good. The camera work actually looks competent. Obviously, this is trying to get into the English market. Korompis jams a lot of different Hollywood movies together. I would suggest that he gets some help to write his next movie.