If there were an AI prompt behind Indonesian action maestro Timo Tjahjanto’s latest Netflix movie The Shadow Strays, it would probably go something like this: “Give me John Wick but make it Indonesian women with uzis and samurai swords — and more brutal.”
Not that anything feels remotely artificial about the viscerally kinetic setpieces that explode off the screen throughout the cult filmmaker’s latest action melodrama.
Tjahjanto has won a worldwide following with his relentlessly creative fight choreographies, punctuated with liberal doses of squirm-inducing ultra-violence. The Shadow Strays is his second film for Netflix, following the more comedic The Big 4, under an ongoing multi-picture deal. He also recently wrapped production on his Hollywood debut, the action sequel Nobody 2, starring Bob Odenkirk, Sharon Stone and the RZA, which is due out in 2025.
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