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One of the finest action movies of the year. Half of the fun is literally watching the body count increase because some of the kills are incredibly innovative. The fight choreography for the hand-to-hand sequences is equally creative. When I first saw the premise I figured it'd be mostly a shoot-'em-up type movie as it centers on a SWAT team operation, but there's a considerable amount of martial arts at play (aside from the standard melee stuff) and it's nice to see that come back to cinema.The other thing I really loved about this was the sound editing/mixing. Several scenes of anticipation use sort of a rising baseline to build atmosphere instead of silence and I quite enjoyed it. There are also a few scenes of the action that incorporate the thematic elements of dubstep of all things--certainly not what I expected from an Indonesian film.Visually, the feel of the movie is gritty and small. There are no truly massive set pieces and so you have all of this action occurring in very confined spaces. The grittiness comes mainly from the textures of the environments, which all feel like they've actually been inhabited in or were once abandoned. There's also a really nice use of shadows and silhouettes in certain scenes. Not knowing anything of Indonesian culture it's hard for me to say what the acting should like like; nothing stood out, really, but nothing was disappointing. Again this was an action movie and its a damn well good one.

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Rated Glory 8/10

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Rated Detention 8/10

Easily the most ridiculous amalgamation of a film I've ever seen, Detention presents some of the funniest parodies of the oft-mythologized 90s era and does so in hyper-kinetic fashion. Part slasher, part time-travel flick it holds as its primary setting the high school experience. It's an utterly nonsensical concept that somehow manages to be insidiously clever.