{"id":171577,"date":"2021-01-19T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/netflix-the-night-comes-for-us-underrated-gem\/"},"modified":"2021-01-19T15:30:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T15:30:04","slug":"netflixs-the-night-comes-for-us-is-an-underrated-action-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/01\/19\/netflixs-the-night-comes-for-us-is-an-underrated-action-gem\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix’s ‘The Night Comes For Us’ Is An Underrated Action Gem"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If the past terrible year has given\u00a0people one positive thing, it\u2019s a lot more time to stream media content. Netflix subscribers have spent the last few months discovering all the hidden gems they missed out on when the world was up and running and there was less binge-watching time on their hands. One such hidden gem is Timo Tjahjanto\u2019s The Night Comes for Us<\/strong><\/em>, one of the most intense action movies of the decade and a must-see for fans of the genre. This visceral 2018 actioner belongs in the same league as modern classics like John Wick<\/em><\/a> and The Raid<\/em>, but it doesn\u2019t receive nearly as much love.<\/p>\n

Recent actioners like Mad Max: Fury Road<\/em><\/a> and Dredd<\/em> haven\u2019t let dialogue scenes get in the way of the action. They\u2019re essentially feature-length action sequences; they let the spectacle of brutality drive the story forward instead of taking intermittent breathers between action sequences to get some exposition out of the way (and bore audiences). The Night Comes for Us<\/em> falls into this category. It opens with the slaughter of an entire village by the South East Asian Triad in retaliation for some stolen drugs and only gets more intense from there.<\/p>\n

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When an infamous enforcer named Ito finds a little girl named Reina who has survived the attack, he makes the snap decision to wipe out the other Triad soldiers on the scene and takes the kid to his ex-girlfriend\u2019s apartment to get her patched up and figure out how he\u2019ll find her a new home. Having turned on the Triad, it quickly sets in that Ito is in way over his head. He calls in a couple of friends from the gang world, but most of them are loyal to the Triad. The full force of Indonesia\u2019s ganglands and the corrupt cops on their payroll are all out to kill both Ito and Reina. From there, The Night Comes for Us<\/em> is a nonstop ride<\/a> in which a group of underdogs defies the odds to fight off a hundreds-strong army of hired goons.<\/p>\n

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An all-action movie can feel empty and devoid of substance, like the icing is there without the cake, but in The Night Comes for Us<\/em>, the action is where the substance comes from. An entire criminal underworld is trying to kill a child and a handful of plucky martial artists are trying to protect her. None of the fight scenes are just fight scenes<\/a>, because a little girl\u2019s life is at stake. The movie crosses lines\u00a0viewers\u00a0don\u2019t think it\u2019ll cross. As brutal as it gets, it doesn\u2019t seem like the movie will go as far as forcing Reina to get in on the grisly killings. And then, lo and behold, as an assassin is crawling through the rear window of a crashed car to kill her and her protectors are preoccupied fending off other armed assailants, Reina takes up a blade and \u2013 with a priceless childlike innocence \u2013 repeatedly stabs the guy in the face until he goes away.<\/p>\n

The Night Comes for Us<\/em> is one of the martial arts movies that benefits from having master martial artists in its cast, so the fight choreography is on point, performed realistically (not like a bunch of actors trying to remember their marks), and the editor was able to feature each action scene in all its glory because he wasn\u2019t required to cut around stunt doubles. The cast includes the great Iko Uwais and Joe Taslim from The Raid<\/em><\/a>. Any fan of The Raid<\/em> franchise who laments the fact that there was never a third Raid<\/em> movie should check out The Night Comes for Us<\/em>. It\u2019s not The Raid 3<\/em>, but it is The Raid 3<\/em> in spirit.<\/p>\n

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Tjahjanto\u2019s movie fits neatly into a new subgenre that has arisen in action cinema in recent years, characterized by gruesome, uncompromising depictions of violence that sometimes border on the horrific. The bone-crunching fist fights of Brawl in Cell Block 99<\/em><\/a> and blood-drenched knife fights of The Raid 2<\/em> are prime examples of this. With a handful of gnarly action beats that are difficult to watch, The Night Comes for Us<\/em> is a challenging movie for even the most desensitized viewers.<\/p>\n

The problem with a lot of action movies is that the stakes don\u2019t feel real. The heroes\u2019 lives aren\u2019t in danger, because they seem to be invincible, weathering gunshot wounds without the slightest impairment to their physicality. In The Night Comes for Us<\/em>, the stakes feel startlingly real. The characters manage to keep fighting through broken bones and stab wounds<\/a> for a while before going down, but each new injury seriously debilitates them. The violence is cartoonish, but the pain is real. Throughout The Night Comes for Us<\/em>, as legions of henchmen slice and dice their way through the thinning band of heroes protecting Reina, it seems horrifyingly possible \u2013 likely, even \u2013 that the bad guys are going to capture this girl eventually. This isn\u2019t just a mindless action movie; it\u2019s an edge-of-your-seat thrill-ride.<\/p>\n

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