Whether as half of the Mo Brothers or flyin’ solo, Indonesian filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto delivers brutal genre flicks. His impressive resume includes films such as Killers, Headshot, The Night Comes for Us, Macabre, and The Big 4, displaying skill at both action and slasher horror. Tjahjanto impressed TIFF’s Midnight Madness crowd with his latest, The Shadow Strays, which promises to f**k us all up this month on Netflix.
Starring Aurora Ribero, the film follows a teen assassin for an organization known as The Shadows. When a mission goes bad, she’s banished and ends up in a vicious war against a deadly cartel to protect the life of a young boy. And based on the expanded footage we’ve got here, this might be the craziest Indonesian action flick since The Raid II.
That’s a heavy expectation but it’s the level of confidence that Tjahjanto has earned. It’s not a fluke that Tjahjanto was recruited to direct Nobody 2.
SYNOPSIS: Stripped of her past and trained in the deadly art of fucking your shit up, adolescent assassin Codename 13 works diligently for a clandestine collective of killers known as The Shadow. After a mission goes sideways in Japan, her mentor, Umbra, picks up the fumble, but boots her to Indonesia on a disciplinary probation. While laying low in the slums of Jakarta, a chance encounter with a young boy who has run afoul of a local crime syndicate soon embroils the restless and rebellious 13 in an unsanctioned crusade, inciting a bevy of bloody battles that paint the town every shade of red, as well as drawing the ire of her merciless management.
The Shadow Strays hits Netflix on October 18th.
