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.