Just as bad business and worse storytelling conspire to rob us of the physical glory that is Tony Jaa, in steps Indonesia’s Iko Uwais, bringing the martial art of silat to the big screen in a big way with Merantau.
Yuda (Uwais) leaves his small farming village on “merantau,” a rite of passage meant to demonstrate a young man’s independence from his family. However, life is tough once he arrives in Jakarta, and tougher still once he steps in to help Astri (Sisca Jessica) as she’s bullied by first her boss, then the head of a European human trafficking ring (Mads Koudal).
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