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Lack of good storyline.

Awesome Movie

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

I was reading the reviews and decided to watch this movie. I won't give you the details as I don't wish to spoil it for you viewers. This movie exceeded my expectation and more. What a great story line along with all the actions and violence. I must say, you must have the stomach to watch this movie. I love these Asians films as they are so much more extreme than the American films. The movie was awesome with a twist of an ending.

KILLERS is something different, a hard-hitting and explicitly violent serial killer outing made as a co-production between Indonesia and Japan. It's a film of two halves, one that tells two separate story lines that gradually merge before meeting up at the climax.The initial storyline is a Japanese-based tale about a guy who goes around murdering beautiful young women in the most vicious way imaginable. Even worse, he uploads footage of his crimes to the Internet for other users to enjoy. This is in the same territory as THE CHASER or I SAW THE DEVIL, absolutely disturbing viewing without dwelling on needless protracted torture or the like. Needless to say it's gripping, with subtle acting and a mature approach to the story.The second storyline is set in Indonesia, and brings to mind the world of THE RAID and its sequel; a couple of actors from those films feature prominently. It involves a journalist who fails to bring down a crime boss and soon finds himself driven into his own murky world of vigilante violence. The film's heart is present in the form of the likable Oka Antara, a guy who goes on a dark yet gripping journey.The storyline is unpredictable throughout, only becoming predictable for the violent climax. But for the most part it's exemplary: dark, harrowing, exciting, the sort of wide-reaching storyline that can only be told through cinema screens. The reason it's so good is that it focuses on the psychology of the killers, which makes this much more than another boring slasher. It's outstanding, in fact.

We saw this film at the Imagine (sf/horror/fantasy) filmfestival Amsterdam 2014. To state our conclusion upfront: We left after an hour. We had agreed at 45 minutes running time that this movie did not seem to go anywhere, but nevertheless waited an extra 15 minutes to make sure we were not judging hastily.The lack of narrative direction was not all, however. Several things we saw were illogical, which we can bear once but not too many times in the same film. For example, the flower girl who we saw murdered, unexpectedly appeared later on in her flower shop alive and well. Maybe a novel form of flash forward, but it was lost on us. Such a misunderstanding can happen, and an isolated case may leave us wondering whether we overlooked something. But there is a limit to the amount of illogicalities we can stand.Apart from this example, we found the rest of what happened on screen not really interesting either. Hence our departure at a moment we nearly saw half of the 137 minutes running time, so the words premature and hastily do not apply here. This film ended at a 30th place (out of 43) with an average score of 6.91, the latter more or less in line with the IMDb score. It must be so that many others saw much more in this film than we did, so apparently we missed a lot, but so be it.

Too much violence, disturbing and overlong makes Killers hardly to watch for audience who seeks entertainment. It gives an uncomfortable feeling during seeing it especially for those who couldn't stand bloody violence and torture things. Some scenes are also quite silly that makes me confuse how this material comes from The Mo brother's. Fortunately the movie is saved by convincing performances from Kazuki Kitamura and Oka Antara. Especially for Kazuki Kitamura, he seems enjoying his role as a psychotic fearless killer and somehow succeeded to annoy audience with his brutal gesture. Perhaps Killers is not bad and still above average Indonesian movie that only offers immoral sensuality and horror. But with inappropriate torture and some disturbing violence scenes give the movie unacceptable to see for audiences except for the genre fans.