Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

Executscan Expected more

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Paul Magne Haakonsen The synopsis of this Japanese and Indonesian collaboration did have my interest grabbed, and I was somewhat excited to sit down and watch the movie. However, I had set the movie up on a pedestal of sorts, because it didn't impress me one bit, and I found it to be just a very mundane and mediocre movie at best.The story is about two very different men, one in Japan and one in Indonesia, whom meet on a disturbing site that posts real videos depicting the moments of death of mutilated victims. While far apart, the two men have something in common; they are both killers. One kills simply out of sadistic pleasure and the other kills for a perverted sense of justice.Right, well the story was good at certain aspects, but at other aspects it was just a muddled mess which made very little logic or sense.What worked out for the movie was the acting, as the two main talents Kazuki Kitamura (playing Nomura) and Oka Antara (playing Bayu) really pulled their weight throughout the movie with their individual performances.The effects were also working well in favor of the movie. And there is a fair amount of brutality and gruesomeness throughout the movie, so take that into consideration if you are easily offended by visual violence.However, the movie just had very little entertainment value, aside from showing some brutal and deranged murder scenes. The storyline was just not functioning on a grander level. It was as if I was watching two different movies; one taking place in Japan and one in Indonesia. And directors Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto (known as The Mo Brothers) were not really successful in trying to intermingle and merge the two story lines into a coherent and fulfilling movie.I found the overall result of the movie to be a tepid and mediocre one, and as such then I am rating it five out of ten stars.

grantss Interesting psychological drama.This movie had the potential to be brilliant. The first half, the set up, was excellent: Japanese killer contacts Indonesian journalist due to a common interest. Intense game of wits and a sort of mentor- student relationship, interspersed with some fairly graphically violent scenes.However, given all this potential and a fine platform from which to build, the writer and director don't know what to do with it all. What develops from there is clumsy at times and the second half feels random, and the conclusion unprofound. Even once we have a seemingly satisfactory conclusion, the movie doesn't end there. The writer and director didn't know when to stop the roller-coaster that is this movie! Ultimately, a fairly good movie, but could have been even better.

JvH48 We saw this film at the Imagine (sf/horror/fantasy) filmfestival Amsterdam 2014. To state our conclusion upfront: We left after an hour. We had agreed at 45 minutes running time that this movie did not seem to go anywhere, but nevertheless waited an extra 15 minutes to make sure we were not judging hastily.The lack of narrative direction was not all, however. Several things we saw were illogical, which we can bear once but not too many times in the same film. For example, the flower girl who we saw murdered, unexpectedly appeared later on in her flower shop alive and well. Maybe a novel form of flash forward, but it was lost on us. Such a misunderstanding can happen, and an isolated case may leave us wondering whether we overlooked something. But there is a limit to the amount of illogicalities we can stand.Apart from this example, we found the rest of what happened on screen not really interesting either. Hence our departure at a moment we nearly saw half of the 137 minutes running time, so the words premature and hastily do not apply here. This film ended at a 30th place (out of 43) with an average score of 6.91, the latter more or less in line with the IMDb score. It must be so that many others saw much more in this film than we did, so apparently we missed a lot, but so be it.

solidizanagi Four years ago, Mo Brothers kept me captivated through their 'Macabre', now they are once again making me dazzled when I watch KILLERS. really.. Killers meet and satisfy my expectations over the past four months. The plot is more cultivated in total and is much more mature than their previous works. Bayu stories and Nomura shaped well, so that there is a sub-plot in Killers dragging but didn't feel forced. The story runs slow, every second is filled with scenes that did not make the heart beats fast for audience like Mo Brothers' previous movie (Macabre, L for libido, Safe Haven), scenes of violence also is not as hard as Macabre (Rumah Dara), but believe me, Killers will make you crazy when it reveals its true face. their tag-line is powerful.. you'll truly feel it after you watch it. "INSIDE US LIVES A KILLER"