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THE BIG 4 Review: Timo Tjahjanto’s Latest Rings Out The Year With Big Action Bang

It’s been a minute since director Timo Tjahjanto’s newest action comedy, The Big 4, started streaming on Netflix and as full as my plate is, I couldn’t end ’22 without lending my two cents on the pic which otherwise continues the director’s nascent relationship with the streamer since 2018’s The Night Comes For Us. Until this month, that title for me stood as my favorite Indonesian action film given all the fanfare in the decade since Iko Uwais and Joe Taslim began making headway in the festivals via the work of Gareth Evans. Granted, Tjahjanto’s craft goes deeper into horror more than anything, and so when he does R-rated action, his hardcore approach is an absolute crowd-pleaser. It also compliments The Big 4, which is something much different in the sense that if you’ve seen films like Lethal Weapon or Tango & Cash or any other R-rated buddy cop or […]

Meet The Bait, The Badass, The Sniper, The Leader And More In THE BIG 4 Official Trailer

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Now only a matter of weeks until its release, Indonesian director fave Timo Tjahjanto’s newest action comedy, The Big 4, has a brand new official trailer to accomodate fans who’ve been long patient in the years they’ve regaled enjoying his past works. The most notable to date of course includes the elevated action and spectacle he’s introduced in 2018’s The Night Comes For Us and alongside co-helmer Kimo Stamboel for Headshot, and we’re definitely getting a few glimmers of it here with the cast in action. That leaves us with a roster led by actress Putri Marino who plays a by-the-book detective who finds herself teaming up with the four retired assassins – trained and mentored by her late father (played by Budi Ros) – in order to avenge his death. Rounding out the cast are Abimana Aryasatya, Lutesha, Arie Kriting, and Kristo Immanuel, along with Marthino Lio, Michelle Tahalea, […]

THE BIG 4 Team Up To Settle The Score In The Official Teaser Trailer For Timo Tjahjanto’s Latest!

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You know something, I might be reading too much into it, but there’s at least one split-second shot in the footage above that has me believing we should expect at least one of our dreams to come true in the years since Timo Tjahjanto’s The Night Comes For Us. It’s speculative, frankly, but for now, the trailer for the hit Indonesian horror and action auteur’s newest venture now lands squarely in our sights this week for hitman comedy, The Big 4, which launches on Netflix beginning December 15. A by-the-book detective investigates the death of her father and follows a clue to a remote tropical island, only to find out his true identity as a leader of a group of assassins. Now hunted by his enemies, she has to team up with the crooks her father had trained – four retired, down-on-their-luck assassins itching to get back in the game. […]

THE BIG 4 Teases A Paradise To Die For In The First Poster

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Try picking director Timo Tjahjanto’s brain from any distance about what he has in store and he’ll be about as cryptic as he wants. He can certainly afford it, especially after wowing thriller fans with hits like Killers and two installments of the May The Devil Take You franchise, as well as actioners Headshot and the ever pulsating The Night Comes For Us, and the same goes for what fans are hoping for with its spin-off, The Operator, and whatever you decide to take from this reply to a fan via Twitter. That, of course, leaves us with what he’s up to now with Netflix’s widely reported investment in Southeast Asian content, including Indonesia’s Tjahjanto who has since shared the first teaser poster for his latest action flick, The Big 4. Tjahjanto directs from a script he wrote with Johanna Wattimena, which centers on a dogged detective whose investigation into […]

THE BIG 4: Timo Tjahjanto’s Newest Action Crime Comedy Now Filming

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Folks waiting with baited breath to learn just what director Timo Tjahjanto is working on since tearing it up on the screen with a slew off horrific action and suspense thriller in the last several years can now take a gander at the first unit still from his current production, The Big 4. The film is one of several projects revealed on Friday at Waktu Netflix Indonesia (Time for Netflix Indonesia), which includes a variety of action, sci-fi, comedy and drama within what’s been described as “its most ambitious slate yet.” A by-the-book detective investigates the death of her father and follows a clue to a remote tropical island, only to find out his true identity as a leader of a group of assassins. Now hunted by his enemies, she has to team up with the crooks her father had trained – four retired, down on their luck assassins itching […]