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4/10
Maybe you think I'm a weird mother.
nogodnomasters17 January 2018
Warning: Spoilers
The film opens with a 5 minute fight sequence. I thought I was watching a Cato vs. Clouseau fight until one got killed. We jump to the future where a girl is learning martial arts...for "that day" while a criminal is being transported and escapes. The two subplots quickly slam back together as we get 50 minutes of fighting and car crashes and having little to no idea what the movie is about. Then the film pauses and confirms our first guess from the meager clues then goes into a flashback which explains it all, including the opening scene. This was rather boring stuff, so the film goes back to shooting, tossing in some bad choreographed hand to hand stuff.

The film was shot in Jakarta, Indonesia a place where dubbed English is the official language (computer screens in English too) and some of the dubbing was done in an echo chamber. If watching people shoot at each other with automatic weapons at close range and only extras getting hit, this film has it and more.

Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity. Plenty of shooting and car crashes. As a martial arts film it left much to be desired.
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1/10
Horrible movie.
anajenkins24 February 2021
Wasted my time watching this movie. My eye hurt in the fighting scene.
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6/10
A Fine action movie
keithomusic21 April 2023
The plot is almost non-existent in this movie, you won't get anything till near the end, but it is just a revenge movie. Some thugs break into a home and violently kill a policeman who was investigating them, the mother escapes with the child and prepares for the eventual showdown. I'm not sure if Sarah Carter is the mother or the guardian, it doesn't become clear until the end. There is a lot of ridiculous action, they use more bullets than Homeland Security and there are more crashes than the Blues Brothers. Don't forget the rocket launchers. Some of the SFX are great and other parts you can see where they ran out of money. The acting is OK, but do you really expect Oscar winning performances in an action movie? This is one of those movies that many would call a 'guilty' pleasure. (I see no reason to be 'guilty' of enjoying something, as long as you aren't harming others) Not a great movie and not an awful movie, if you like shoot-em-ups or martial arts movies this is worth a watch.

( In Indonesian with English subtitles)
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