What is the ranking of Iko Uwais' movies, from worst to best? In the past decade or so, Indonesia has become one of the centers of modern martial arts movies, and Iko Uais is one of the country’s most well-known action stars. As a practitioner of Pencak Silat, Uwais first attracted people's attention in Merantau in 2009, and then helped change the entire pattern of action movies with The Raid: Redemption in 2012 and the follow-up The Raid 2 in 2014. Since then, Uwais's exclamation has not slowed down to attract audiences with his screen image and martial arts prowess.
In recent years, Uwais has leapt into Hollywood works and admitted that he was wasted sadly in several of these works. Despite all the advantages of Keanu Reeves’s directorial debut Tai Chi, the fight scene between Uaisi and Chen Hu was much smaller than it should be. He was indeed left behind in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Aside. Uwais has achieved better results in the sci-fi movie "Beyond Skyline" and the action film "Triple Threats". Uwais even continues to serve as the anchor of the Netflix supernatural martial arts series "Wu Assassin".
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Despite this, Uwais has not yet become the leading actor in a not-so-good martial arts movie, and even in supporting roles, he has been improving the movies he starred in. Uwais is equally exciting in the villain role. This fact has not been overlooked by the producer of The Expendables 4, and the various action scenes he can provide are the dreams of martial arts fans. This is the summary of Iko Uwais movies, from worst to best.
Released in the late summer of 2018, "One Mile 22" is an underutilized case of overseas action stars. Nevertheless, this movie makes his movies much better than those without him, which is nothing compared to the early days of Donnie Yen. Different in Hollywood. The 22-mile star Mark Wahlberg plays CIA agent James Silva. His team is tasked with transporting Li Noor in Uwais 22 miles to an airport so that he can pass on information about his secret government activities. Director Peter Berg kept moving fast, but Uwais's fight scenes had the same choppy and shaky shots as the rest of the film-a far cry from the excellent action scenes he had done elsewhere, and, frankly, Berg also had (i.e. The Rock and Ernie Reyes Jr. in The Rundown).
Sadly, for Silva’s partner Sam’s seriously underutilized Ronda Rossi, this is also regrettable. 22 miles is the first part of the series, although there does not seem to be any motivation to move forward in this area. Despite a lot of potential, some good fighting scenes, and a wonderful turn at the end, Mile 22 is Iko Uwais' weakest film, and the energy he brings to the film only shows that it could have been stronger.
In Iko Uwais's career, a rather small footnote, Stuber is a useful partner in police revenge play. Dave Bautista plays the Los Angeles Police Department policeman Vic Manning. He and the murder partner played by Uaisi, the crime leader Oka Tedjo, begin a vendetta. The problem is that Vic recently underwent laser eye surgery, temporarily impairing his vision, and forcing him to pull Kumail Nanjiani’s Stu Prasad into the mix as his Uber, or rather "Stuber", because Stu is in Uber gave himself a nickname in the beat.
Bautista ventured into a more dramatic realm with the Death Army and his recognized secondary role in Dennis Villeneuve's Dune. However, his talent for physical comedy should not be overlooked either, because he showed unexpectedly good at the blind performance inspired by Mr. Magoo that the script required him to perform. As a comedy paired by two opposites, Stuber completed his work in Bautista and Kumail's partner movie banter. Uwais has relatively few appearances, theoretically this may be caused by overlapping schedules, and this movie has gained some good miles from his martial arts ability, but nothing is too spectacular. Stuber's most powerful asset is the comedy teasing of friends between Bautista and Nanjiani, but fans of Uwais may still want to see his action scenes.
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Uwais took the role of his first mentor in Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins. Although restarting has many benefits, there are some options that prevent it from matching with the modern ninja movie bar established by the ninja movie starring Scott Adkins. Henry Golding plays an underground warrior known only as Snake Eye, who saved the life of Thomas Lanying (Andrew Congee) in a confrontation with rival gangs. Snake Eyes got the opportunity to join the Lanying Ninja family, and he also had his own plan to avenge his father's murder. Both Golding and Koji played very well as friends who were destined to become enemies, especially Koji showed a real star performance after the first outbreak of the Wushu Western series fighters. Iko Uwais also became a wise ninjutsu instructor, became Arashikage trainer Hard Master, and stole some of the best moments in the movie fighting and training sequences, while Snake Eyes consolidated Uwais' status as a martial arts movie legend. The one-on-one between Snake Eye and Hard Master can be said to be the best training scene in the movie. The task of Snake Eye is to grab a rice bowl full of water from the Hard Master without spilling any water. It is also important to be reminded that humility is equally important. Used as combat accuracy in martial arts.
Unfortunately, Snake Eyes also suffered from using unstable cameras and fast editing. The good news is that it does not reach the level of incomprehensibility of Berne's identity in "Snake Eye", and the movie's action scenes are clear enough to follow. Despite this, no ninja movie, especially the origin story of Snake Eyes, shouldn't be contended with the influence of the shaking cam. Snake Eyes has all the features of the audience's favorite ninja movie, the origin story of one of GI Joe's most popular characters, and Joes' own teasing. Unfortunately, its shaky cam makes it deviate from the perfect bullseye, but Golding and Koji's performances are still worth watching, and Iko Uwais is the first to see Iko Uwais as a wise mentor.
As Iko Uwais' film debut, Merantau is also known as the great film producer Gareth Evans born in Wales, which heralds the two of them will usher in a great career. Uwais plays Yuda, a young villager and Silat practitioner who is sent to Jakarta for a pilgrimage called "merantau" and soon finds himself trying to rescue Sisca Jessica's Astri and her brother Adit from the traffickers, by Yusuf Played by Aulia. As his first film appearance, Uwais impressively took Merantau as a true Jackie Chan loser and a warrior, putting it on his head as soon as the situation required it. The same is true for Evans. Long before he and Uwais swept the world with The Raid film, his talent as an action film producer was undeniable.
Yayan Ruhian also appears in Eric's more naive (for him) role, as he and Uwais face off in the elevator battle in Captain America: The Winter Soldier will be proud of. The Silat action of this movie is shocking from beginning to end, after the latter's final battle with Mads Koudal and Laurent Bousan's big villains, Evans and Uwais had an emotional impact on the face. With Merantau, Uwais and Evans became heavyweights in the martial arts film industry overnight. Needless to say, since then, both of them have become better off.
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Screenwriter and director Liam O'Donnell used "Beyond Skyline" to rewrite the rule book of alien invasion movies, injecting martial arts into the alien conquest on the scale of Independence Day, and the present was born A thriving sci-fi action series. Simultaneously with the original skyline, Beyond the Skyline brought together a new series of human survivors, including Frank Grillo's Mark Colli and Uves' Sua, who fought against invading aliens in the Lao jungle. After the suspense of the skyline is over, beyond the skyline has injected new vitality into this silent story, allowing people to see the invaders transplanting human brains into the body of the mechanized alien warrior code-named "pilot" earlier. The film also subtly delayed the entry of Uwais and his co-star in The Raid film Yayan Ruhian until halfway through.
The final battle between humans and aliens in the ancient temple is the kind of thing that action movies and sci-fi fans don’t know they need. O'Donnell visually fuses different types of genres into a very interesting popcorn movie. The series will continue to work with Skylines in 2020, and there is no denying that there are no Uwais and Grillo, although Ruhian returns with a compelling cameo. Hope that Skyline 4 can unite the entire band again, and this may even be attributed to transcending the Skyline and turning the Skyline science fiction film series into the best alien film franchise in the world.
Directed by stunt veteran Jesse Johnson, Triple Threat drew a page from the script of The Expendables, bringing together some of the best martial artists in modern action movies. Uwais appeared with Tony Jaa, Tiger Chen, Scott Adkins, Michael, Jai White, Jeeja Yanin, Michael Bisping and Ron Smoorenburg. Uwais portrays Jaka, a young man who was killed after his wife was killed, when a mercenary attacked his village to release their imprisoned leader Collins, played by Adkins, this The young man is performing a revenge mission (in his role as Jason Statham in The Expendables 2). Soon, he learned that their former teammates Pa Yu and Long Fei, played by Jia and Chen, also shot them down and wanted to kill Serena Jade's rich Benefactor Xiaoxian, leading the three to join forces.
Derived from the concept developed by Tiger Chen, Triple Threat is a very economical action movie, but it stops intermittently to catch a breath and fully understand what the audience sees there. Among the titular hero trio, Uwais’ Jaka is the clear brain of this action, manipulating his enemies like chess pieces on a chessboard, only the suspicious virtue played by Adkins’ undisputed 2 co-star Michael Jai White Fro's irritation threatened to reveal his intentions. The film also corrected the aforementioned shortcomings of Tai Chi, allowing Uaisi and Chen to face each other in the Muay Thai ring. In any case, the huge final blow to an abandoned building will be a curtain-raising curtain, but the accumulation brought about by the accelerated rhythm of the movie will only make it more like a martial arts-driven sprint. Triple Threat 2? Make it happen!
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Getting a movie into the take-off stage can sometimes be a fierce battle. Timo Tjahjanto's The Night Comes For Us spent several years trying to get rid of the pre-production and camera, and his efforts paid off in spades. In "Night Comes", the anti-hero protagonist Ito is played by Judo champion and Asian zero actor Joe Taslim, who is a conflict enforcer for the Six Seas Gang. Ito finds himself protecting a young girl named Reina, played by Asha Kenyeri Bemudez, and is chased by his old ally Uves, who plays Aryan, who hopes to catch him Friends of the past and ascended to the top of the gang. Uwais apparently had fun in his first mature opportunity to show his abilities as a villain, and Taslim's Ito sympathized appropriately, even though his hands were obviously stained with blood.
Born in a horror movie, Tjahjanto has no restraint in The Night Comes For Us, which is enough to make The Raid movie look like Dora the explorer. The action scene of this movie is a strong display of internal organs, the body is beaten into flesh and torn to pieces. The final confrontation between Ito and Arian is one of the best battles between Uwais and Taslim. In addition, a derivative work of The Operator, played by Julie Estelle, may be the way forward for The Night Comes For Us to continue its story. As the real breakthrough character of this movie, after the ambiguous last moments of the movie, it is difficult not to join the single-player spin-off of The Night Comes For Us, The Night Comes For Us, which is something Tjahjanto has planned. .
Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel, collectively known as The Mo Brothers, their Uwais is probably his most emotional movie to date, and one of his most ruthless movies, Headshot. Uwais plays a young man who woke up in the hospital with amnesia. Because his doctor, Dr. Ailin of Chelsea Islam, was flipping through the pages of Moby Dick, he was named "Ishmael". It was soon discovered that he was once a member of a criminal gang led by Sunny Pang's Lee. Just like the story of Jason Byrne with horror movie DNA in "Identity Byrne", "Headshot" is cruel physically and emotionally. As the movie progresses, its fighting scenes become more and more severe. It gets more intense, and Ismail realizes that Lee and his accomplice Rica, played by Julie Estelle and Very Tri Yulisman, Besi, regard him as family.
The idea of an amnestic killing machine is not entirely a groundbreaking premise, but in Ismail’s efforts to get rid of his past violent life, Brother Mo turned the headshot into a real tear-jerking, even if the vicious Li tried Pulling him back in the past, in a shot near the end of the movie, the whole subject was captured beautifully. With the exception of Merantau, which may be an exception, Headshot makes you cry harder than any other Iko Uwais movie, just as its utterly harsh martial arts combat is absolutely amazing.
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After breaking up with Merantau, Uais and director Gareth Evans re-co-produced the 2012 "Raid: Redemption", calling it one of the best action movies of all time. Not an exaggeration. Uwais portrays Rama, a young Jakarta police officer, whose troops invaded an apartment building that is the lunatic asylum for the most vicious killers and criminals in the entire city. Soon their cover was revealed, leaving the surviving members of the team to fight for their lives, while Rama tried to remove his estranged brother Andy (played by Donny Alamcia) from his criminal life when he left his family Raid is often compared to survival horror movies. Its action scenes are creepy. The bloody battle between Rama and his allies is just trying not to be slaughtered by the mentally ill who emerged from their apartment, just like an attack. Like the greedy zombies.
Uwais played the same ordinary warrior he had in Merantau, although Yayan Ruhian almost snatched the show as a ruthless mad dog, the name became famous in his fierce attacks with Rama and Andi. Assault has become the new standard for measuring martial arts movies, and it is still used as a template for action scenes to inject a lot of courage to fight or escape. Even superhero genres will begin to pay attention to raids, such as Arrow, Daredevil, and Batman v Superman: Battle scenes in the Dawn of Justice. The Raid gave birth to a real-time action classic. Its influence still has a strong influence in martial arts movies and TV series. For example, the samurai originally conceived by Bruce Lee, but Evans and Uais immediately showed the franchise’s fuel tank. There is more fuel.
The Raid 2 in 2014 actually started as a completely different project called Berandal. Gareth Evans was unable to raise funds for it, which led him to work with Iko Uwais to make The Raid. Evans later thought of the idea of rewriting Belendar's script to make it a sequel to The Raid, so The Raid 2 was born. After the end of its predecessor, The Raid 2 followed Rama because he became friends with Arifin Putra's Uco undercover in the prison. He is the son of one of Jakarta's criminal tycoons, and he worked hard to bring down the criminal family that manages the city.
The Raid is a survival horror movie, The Raid 2 is a crime movie of a criminal organization that tells the blood of Goodfellas or The Godfather, Rama performs infiltration missions, and Alex Abbad’s up-and-coming gangster Bejo’s plan is to make the enemy hostile. Criminal families wipe out each other to seize their territory. Despite the two and a half hours of longer running time, Assault 2 never makes people feel slow, and its action scenes can be said to be better than its predecessors, from Rama fighting other prisoners in the bathroom booth to car chases. Level Mad Max: Fury Road had to be provided in the following year.
The villains are like a group of people that a mad dog might run through, including the very Terry Ulisman and Julie Estelle as baseball Batman and Hammer Girl, and Yayan Ruthian returning to play the small but terrifying gang law enforcement Prakoso’s new role. The ending of the movie knife battle is only comparable to the assassin film Re:Born, The Raid 2, led by Tokusakaguchi. Like the previous game, the best part is left to the end, in the kitchen of the unknown assassin of Rama and Cecep Arif Rahman. During the war, the latter made an amazing performance in his first film debut on the big screen, and later he will be in John Wick: Chapter 3-Parabellum together with Ruthian and Keanu Reeves fights. Raid 2 is based on the impact of the original, presenting both an intricate crime drama and another classic martial arts film, easily becoming the best Iko Uwais movie to date.
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