Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Leofwine_draca If you ever have to see one Indonesian movie in your life, THE WARRIOR would be a pretty good example of the genre as a whole. Packed with insane martial arts and action, tons of gore, sprinklings of sex and sadism and a period-set plot, THE WARRIOR (based on a popular Indonesian comic book) is a real crowd-pleaser of a film which helped to catapult star Barry Prima to fame. Two sequels followed offering up much the same mix of horror and action but THE WARRIOR is the first, and a film that has to be seen to be believed. The notoriously stroppy Prima, an European-looking leading man, makes the role his own and invests it with dynamism and heroism, if not charisma.The plot isn't really what's at stake here, consisting of typical good guys vs. bad guys stuff with an outcome you can easily predict. It's what happens along the way that holds the attention. The film opens with Prima, a slave, escaping from his Dutch captors and leading the villagers into a revolt. A psychopathic, brutal, almost indestructible bounty hunter arrives on the scene, stunning the Dutch with his bull-fighting and fire-breathing activities (!). They send him on a mission to kill Prima, but he ends impaled through the mouth with a spear instead. The Dutch then turn to darker methods to capture Prima, employing a voodoo priest to bring the decapitated body of an evil wizard back to life.What follows is the film's most macabre moment - the coffin rises from the earth and out of it the headless corpse. The wizard's head then also returns to life and levitates back on to the body. Seeking Prima out, the wizard fights Prima with powerful invisible magic and the warrior is captured and thrown in a Dutch prison, where he is crucified to a wall just like in a certain scene in THE BEYOND and with no less gore. To make matters worse, his eyes are gouged out by metal rods leaving him gored and in agony. Prima calls down the power of his god to give him strength and after painfully pulling the nails from his hands, he tears down the wall and leads a prison revolt.The real highlight of the movie is Prima's battle with the reanimated wizard. First he cuts off an arm, then a leg, and then the head of the zombie wizard, resulting in blood spurts all other the place. Incredibly the wizard is able to reattach his severed limbs with surprisingly good special effects work, until he is finally chopped in half in the air and his two halves impaled on swords like kebabs. A fantastic (in both senses of the word) battle, imaginative and excellently realised, what more could you wish for? Well there is more; we have scenes of deadly LEAVES killing people (where else would you see THAT?), people levitating and flying in the air like in a Hong Kong film, plenty of gore, violence, torture, blood, and general brutality, some comic relief and romance for those who like that kind of thing. THE WARRIOR: an Indonesian epic which remains unforgettable to those lucky enough to have seen it.

dbborroughs The star of this Indonesian film Barry Prima is on record as hating every film he ever made, complaining that they are all trash. That maybe so but for the most part they are entertaining trash. This film is exactly that, entertaining trash of the highest order.This is the first of a series of films with Prima as Jaka Sembung, a hero known as the Warrior. Sembung is an Indonesian native who fights against the colonial Indonesian government for the freedom of his people. He is a real pain and as the movie opens he has been captured by the authorities. Instead of killing him they send him off to work in the quarry breaking rocks. His captivity doesn't last long and he's soon back leading the forces of rebellion. The government is desperate and is reduced to hiring great warriors to try and capture and kill Sembung. Eventually they are further reduced to having a powerful voodoo priest resurrected for the task.I really like this movie a great deal, its just 90 minutes of action and magic and the perfect thing to unwind with after a long day at work since it requires very little from the view except acceptance. This is the type of movie that popcorn was invented for.Certainly by no means a well made movie (the fights occasionally appear staged and the make up is low grade) that makes up for pretty much all its short comings in its go for broke, through everything in but the kitchen sink attitude. This movie just keeps piling on the complications as it goes along and if you tune into its wave length there is nothing better. (I even didn't mind its ""Rah Rah! Go Indonesia attitude" which was used to inspire pride in native Indonesian audiences, but to my eyes at least showed a seriousness of cause lacking in most action films)A word of warning.Despite the films lesser make up effects this is still a bloody movie. Lots of people are shot and killed, there are decapitations, eye gouging, people are graphically crucified and lots of blood flows. Its gruesome. Still if you can get past the blood its a fun movie.9 out of 10 (minus one because its slows a bit in the middle for exposition). Worth a couple of bags of popcorn and several glasses of soda.

gemproductions The Warrior, Jaka Sembung, played by Barry Prima, is an Indonesian Robin hood with magical powers who fights evil Dutch Imperialists. This is one little strange movie filled with martial arts, mysticism, blood & gore, and a strong anti-imperialist message. It is also quite funny, and the dubbing is of course priceless. The final battle between the evil Ki Item and the warrior has to be the most weird piece of bloodshed in movie history, and who can forget the sequence where Jaka Sembung gets a new pair of eyes. Essential viewing for fans of Asian weirdness. the U. K. version seems to have some minor cuts, but is still worth watching.Recommended.

gardner-3 Okay I am so glad IMDB has this title. It is great fun. If you see one Indonesian movie in your life let it be this. The Warrior is the story of an enemy of the state who is very strong. He is sent to prison but quickly escapes. The state stops at nothing to capture him. Magick is used to finally capture the hero. He is nailed to a wall and has his eyes gouged. Being nailed and blind doesn't stop our hero from escaping. In the most tender moment of the film the Warriors sister rips out her eyes and gives them to the hero. The finally has levitation magic and a exploding body. See it if you can find it!