Merantau Warrior

Fans of the frenetic, hyper-violent end of fight cinema (as opposed to the elegant, balancing on the end of a tree branch, pretty, pretty stuff) will love Merantau Warrior, which brings the Indonesian fighting art of Silat to UK audiences.

If you thought the Muay Thai battles of Ong Bak were brutal and painful looking, you're going to go crazy for the bone cracking, spinal injury inducing melee on display in this movie.

A basic but engaging plot serves to throw fight after fight onto the screen, with a closer-than-close combat sequence in a lift being a stand out moment. Another death defying scrap on top of large storage containers in a dockyard will leave you wondering if all the stuntmen survived to see the movie wrapped.

Merantau Warrior is a great addtion to the collection for any fan of visceral Martial Arts cinema and the fact that the director hails from the UK adds another good reason to support the movie and check it out.

Awesome film, great martial arts on show from 'the Indonesian Tony Jaa' and he actually is that good! The acting is pretty poor and there's a slight lull in the middle,but overall this is an outstanding martial arts movie. And it's made by a Wleshman, random!!

This film is over hyped on the first review (That's why I bought it),
After watching this film I was very disappointed.
The fight scenes were not very good as the lighting was terrible (too Dark) so you couldn't see the action properly and the story wasn't very good. Not worth the 3 quids.