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Fascist movie from a fascist regime


I mean if that kind of brain turd had been made in Hollywood it would have got a 3-4 score here.

But because of good ol' asian outsourcing fetish people are raving for it...

Anyways, Indonesia is a violent military regime and this crap is only aimed at justifying militaristic police raids.

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It didn't come across as overly fascist to me, especially compared to stuff like Transformers from the US. Stuff like the situation surrounding the guy who just wanted to get medicine to his wife seemed... like a direct attack on a fascistic approach. The bullying police officer there is wrong, told to back off and laters needs to turn to that innocent resident for life-saving shelter. The white-haired cop gunning down the kid on watch duty is shown to be pointless and the action of a morally questionable *beep* Team leader Jaka actually attempts diplomacy over violence (in telling the kid 'not to do anything stupid), and he's one of the most sympathetic characters in the film. Then there's little touches like it being a 'shoot first' reaction to the door opening that gets half the team massacred in the stairwell. The film actually seemed to dramatize the idea that militaristic action led to pointless loss-of-life. Plus, let's not forget that the bent cop behind it all is hauled off to face justice, rather than executed at the end of a final fight sequence, which is more ordinarily the case in US action movies.

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