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The Big 4 is an Indonesian action-comedy that delivers the highest of high concepts, as a young cop joins forces with a quartet of vigilante assassins to bring down an unhinged killer. Its opening sequence introduces the team with rescuing children from a dodgy orphanage with unapologetic gory violence and a ridiculously high body count within the first ten minutes and then sets up the revenge story that plays out for the rest of the film. The leads are amiable, the fight choreography is sharp and lively, and the frequent lurches from weak humour to bone-crunching and bloody violence are dizzying. The film is by turns daft, cheesy, ridiculously violent and melodramatic, but nevertheless The Big 4 possesses a certain deranged but energetic charm.
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