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The Night Comes For Us

A Triad enforcer spares a child during a massacre and spends the rest of the film paying for that one flicker of conscience, as an army of increasingly deranged killers comes for him. It's Indonesian action cinema turned up past the red line — bones snap audibly, hallways become abattoirs — directed with the gleeful, punishing rigor of a stunt team that clearly loves its work. Not for the squeamish, essential for action purists.

TMDb rating6.9

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