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The Night Comes for Us


The Night Comes for Us (2018) N

A man who's sort of an executioner and trouble shooter for the Triad decides he's had enough after sent to kill a whole fishing village as an example. He saves a young girl and kills his own men. Triad wants them both dead and violence ensues.


The Night Comes for Us is close to being good martial arts action movie but during the last 30 minutes or so it falters quite badly. Up to that point the action (which is aplenty) has been mostly fast paced, brutal and very bloody. Unfortunately the final fight (and to a lesser degree the one preceeding it) are prolonged way too much and become boring; some characters have outright ridiculous ability to sustain damage. Also the actual ending of the film is little stupid.

Storywise The Night Comes for Us is very typical Asian action. There's this almost mythical hero, his old friend who's now the enemy, a child that awakens the conscience, etc. It's typical also in its technical flaws like characters popping in without introduction or apparent logic, in general odd pacing, story that doesn't seem to make too much sense and stupidly macho characters (women included) who rather fight 2 vs 1 in melee than shoot the attackers.

90 minutes of good violent action followed by dull 30 minutes of duels between seemingly indestructible men and slightly more brittle women.