I was very impressed by this superhero kind of movie; not necessarily the plot or the story of the entire movie. It was an action movie, so why bother the story too much. I was just enjoying the silat fighting in it. They have action sequences that leave me gasping and squirming in my seat. Better than Jackie Chan’s movies. All hail to the film’s fight coordinator.

Then talking about the story, I am quite familiar with the tradition of Merantau. I am a Minang-nese myself, a young man from West Sumatra who leaves his village to fulfill the coming-of-age rite of passage, Merantau. Here’s an old related post about merantau. Well I am not trying to relate myself with the furious Yuda on the screen. I am nothing like him of course, the Silat Harimau and stuffs. I was raised mostly influenced by modern era, thus I master Karate, a Japanese martial art that I practiced for years and still no good in it rather than Silat, the tradional one.

Being raised in the “modernization”, still I find it implausible that Yuda decides to trespass on a construction site to stay nights when he could look for a nearby mosque. I surely know that in kampuang (village) in Minangkabau, males have been raised with religious neighborhood. Males are even sometimes being asked to leave house just to stay in the mosque deepening the religious and cultural material. In the earlier scenes, it was also shown that Yuda and his family are religious. So I just don’t get it why Yuda leaves all his religious way of thinking in Jakarta.

Aside from that one there are also some more scenes bringing more questions to me, such: why the hell the blood are pink on their shirts; how Yuda manages to beat all of them without catching his breathe; why there were shooting in the lift, … so on and so forth. But I think I will keep it for myself. As I told you earlier, this is an action movie, he?! Why bother the story too much ;)
Just enjoy the fun