The Big Picture Streaming algorithms can cause many great movies to slip through the cracks, but if you are an action junkie there is one Netflix movie you should absolutely not miss. In 2018, Indonesian action & horror filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto reunited the stars of Gareth Evans' hit action film The Raid for The Night Comes for Us.
'The Night Comes for Us' Pushes the Boundaries of Action Filmmaking From the opening moments, The Night Comes for Us is a dark, unrelenting action story. The violence on screen is captured in its full brutality with a greater emphasis on gore than some viewers may be accustomed to. Many of the action sequences feature gnarly visual effects, with limbs, knives, and bullets flying throughout every frame of the many massive set pieces.
The Night Comes for Us is incredibly heightened in terms of the presentation of these action sequences, but it feels grounded by the fact that the performers are there actually doing these moves. The camerawork emphasizes the martial arts expertise of Taslim, a gold medalist in competitive judo, and Uwais, an expert in the Indonesian form of Pencak silat.
'The Raid 3' May Not Happen, But 'The Night Comes for Us' Is a Worthy Spiritual Successor The Raid has become a fan-favorite action film, a great doorway to Asian action cinema that can expand the horizons of people who primarily watch English-language media. The film spawned a popular sequel, and talks of a third movie have been happening ever since.