Well, I was given the chance to sit down and watch the 2019 Indonesian superhero movie "Gundala" in 2020. I hadn't heard about the movie prior to sitting down to watch it. But I hoped that it would be in the likes of movies such as "The Raid".

Turns out that it wasn't even in the same tempo as "The Raid", much less as action-packed or entertaining. So I can't really claim that I was overly impressed with "Gundala. In fact, I turned off the movie with just 20 minutes left of watching it. Yeah, I just had enough of the storyline and I was starting to grow very bored.

I will say that the movie started out nice enough, but then grew stale along the way. And it was mostly because the storyline was just generic and bland. So writer and director Joko Anwar failed to dish out something that was overly enjoyable.

The martial arts sequences in the movie were adequate, and the action scenes were fair enough. But they were not enough to make up for the lack of a proper storyline.

I wasn't familiar with anyone on the cast list. And that was at least something that was good. But the actors and actresses had precious little to work with in terms of a proper script and storyline.

My rating of "Gundala" is a generous four out of ten stars.

A beautiful superhero movie. WBDC Films should take note.

The product is about a boy/man discovering is power to save a disorderly society.

Despite watching it in subliminal text the acting and choreography was marvelous. The lead character did a good job. We only get to see like 15 minutes of the hero in action. Most of the movie is about chaos and riots.

Overall it's a beautiful movie set in Indonesia. Gundala costume is so cool. It has a Thor, Falcon, Winter Soldier, Spider-Man inspiration to it.

What can be learned? Rioting doesn't work?

Verdict: Pretty darn good

First i would like to say thank you for Joko Anwar who finally brought Indonesian comic book hero into big screen (yaaaay).

I hasn't read the comic, so this review is from perspective of basic cinema audience.

Start with Sancaka early life. The background story quite solid and good, especially Sancaka chemistry with Awang (Awesome Fighting Choreography Btw) until scene where some rich guy in car save him from pursuer and suddenly offer him all of every streetkid can desire of, kinda look like soap opera.

As the movies continues the conflict in Sancaka world is quite good delivered. Pengkor origin story is well explained, dark, thrilling, and it successfully build up the tension of a kingpin villain. On the other hand adult Sancaka character building is solid and exciting with some comedy added. Until the scene where he being thrown up from building. The CGI was really OFF! I know you can't expect it to be as good as holywood movie cgi, but i think you can remove the falling scene.

Start from the middle to the end of the movies the plot was starting to get messy and seems like too fast paced with the story. The movie was too much focus on the political issues rather than the Gundala itself.

The main conflict doesnt involve our hero. It fails to relate the conflict with main hero as it is only revolving between the politician and main villain. As the story progress the tension get bigger when the main villain introduce his children and set my expectation high for the final boss fight.

The final boss fight scene was a breakdown. The villain out of nowhere came to main hero hideout. I know he is a mafia leader, but you can't just came and knowing main hero real name without any explanation or relatable scene. The hero is beaten up and just like other superhero movies he enraged when the hostage is killed, and he struck by lightning then got his power, this is starting getting off. The fight scene act failed to deliver adrenaline we should have emotionally receive. And all of the villain we expected to be hurdle are just easily zapped like fly. The fight with the market thug was better than the last boss fight.

It was a good movies, with a good story line and decent cgi. Unfortunately they rush the main conflict and doesnt involve the main hero. Too many villain introduced but lack character building, and bad villain ending. Plot is messy from middle to the end.