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I'm not sure if it's as good as the 'Raid' movies and as you expect so much, it can be a bit disappointing in places. Kind of like the Tony Jaa pictures, it's increasingly difficult to top former films, especially when you start to age. The same will go for Iko Uwais and these incredibly hot Indonesian, action movies. I mean where do you go after this and how do they raise the bar, any further? Despite the great action, the plot did seem to wonder a little. Also I did not care for the sentimental ending, though it does not distract from the graphic violence we all love to watch.

IMDb member for 11 years. Big fan of the martial arts genre. I can tell you that this movie improves everything we liked about the Raid movies and much more. I wasn't so sure from the trailer and this being Iko's first film with no Gareth and Ruhian (Mad Dog) if it could be any better. But never worry, Iko took the best of what The Raid films had to offer and transcends the genre again. As a whole, the film is the complete package. You get a story that is just about the other characters as it is the main one. Every performance is believable and emotional where everyone grows into their role. ** spoiler ** And no one is left out of the final acts of the film. 1 of the 2 brothers is actually deaf, Ailin is pulled from a world of healing to a world of killing, All the characters from Ishmael's life bring a different 'end product' to the Assassins Lee has created. Violence wise you will not be disappointed. Past criticism of these top modern top martial arts movies is the lack of guns present in a violent world. Well this movie has all of that, like I mentioned the inspired 'Gang War deleted scene in The Raid 2' is prolonged and enhanced into the story in the first 5 minutes of this film! Blood spluttering, bodies riddled with bullets it really surpasses anything before it. The Director knows how to show the modern use of guns, special effects, weapons and hand to hand getting it on camera in such a visceral way most of the shots being single rotating one takes and ALL of them being pulled back enough. The unarmed vs armed scenes are an eye to behold and is really more gritty yet still choreographed that it works. There is so much to go on about this film. The main thing is the many improvements made from similar scenes in Iko's previous films - the set design, choreography, level of violence, mixed martial arts Kung fu, with MMA and Silat, etc - and attention to detail in every scene truly makes it the Martial Arts Action-er to beat in 2017. And really the only one to do that is The Night Comes for Us (2017) by the same everyone involved in this film plus Ruhian and Joe Taslim. You've been warned!

Great action, quite bloody though. Lead actors did an excellent job.

Being a big fan of The Raid I & II, I was looking forward to watching this movie once I had seen the trailer. Headshot proves to be one hell of a brutal action film that really earns its R rating. The action is pretty relentless and doesn't let up with with the movie racking up a solid body count within the first 20 minutes. Iko Uwais is a great up and coming action star and choreographs and pulls off some amazing fight sequences like he's done in other films (Man of Tai Chi, Merantau). Although the movie probably could of been more focused and efficient in terms of the story and the characters motivations, it is still well paced for a two hour film and action packed throughout. Overall, a solid early contender for one of the best action films of 2017. 7/10

I watched this movie knowing it wasn't going to be half as good as the raid, but at least hoping it had good action. Not so much. There was so much over acting on every death, some parts I actually cringed at. Ohhhh uhhhhghhh I'm getting hit and shot... bleh. I could barely get through the movie. I don't mind giving this movie movie money in hopes iko goes back to the raid movies. You can tell they tried to make it similar to those movies, but they failed in comparison. I feel like my brother and I made better choreographed fight scenes on our trampoline when we were young. Why are you having iko fight for a weapon when clearly he's made for martial arts? He literally didn't look like he could win any of the fights in this movie. Let's just have him fight one guy at a time and then have another come right after and almost lose every fight. I didn't like this movie at all. The worst part of the movie was the slow motion hits that didn't even look painful. They would get stabbed, shot and stabbed again, but for some reason would slow down an action shot for the worst looking hit. Especially during his fight with the girl. I laughed it was so bad. Oh booom kicked in an awkward position. What a hit! What a load of crap. Move along.

As an Indonesian that anticipated this movie for a very long time since the first information released, I must say I'm quite pleased with the final results. As expected from a movie starred by Iko Uwais, blood and fast paced action scene are the main elements in this movie. Talking about strong opening, the movie went for a solid middle part and striving for a pretty great ending. Though I must say that the plot looked a little bit similar like Kill Bill with a better way to conclude the story I must say. Still, with a great execution there's some plot hole and questionable actions that the characters made, I mean what's with the Rika character shooting randomly while she can leave unscathed? All in all though, still the good parts made up for the silly scene. The acting itself is pretty good, although I would like to know more about the "evil" characters like Tejo and Rika. As for Iko's character, like always he played it pretty good, albeit the cringey dizzy scene. And well I must say, Chelsea is shining pretty good in here with her charm that she brought to this action-gore movie. The main antagonist himself portrayed the character pretty good and speaks English very well with no weird accent whatsoever. All in all I give this movie a 7/10, good overall with some parts that actually can be potential but were neglected.