SYNOPSICS
Wiro Sableng 212 (2018) is a Indonesian movie. Angga Dwimas Sasongko has directed this movie. Vino G. Bastian,Yayan Ruhian,Fariz Alfarazi,Ruth Marini are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2018. Wiro Sableng 212 (2018) is considered one of the best Action,Adventure,Comedy,Fantasy movie in India and around the world.
In a bandit raid that killed both his parents, 4-year-old WIRO SABLENG "Crazy Wiro" is rescued and raised by an eccentric old female warrior, SINTO GENDENG "Screwy Sinto". The perpetrator of the raid turns out to be Sinto's former disciple, MAHESA BIRAWA, who turns his back on her and uses her ultimate fighting technique for his own vicious purposes. Stung by betrayal and worried that Mahesa will grow even more dangerous, she teaches Wiro a secretive, legendary martial art called Silat and grooms him to be the next 212 Dragon Axe Warrior. After 17 years of training, Wiro inherits the mighty 212 Axe and fighting style from his master, leaving the mountains he has called home to put an end to Mahesa's evil plans. On his journey to find Mahesa, Wiro meets fellow travelers BUJANG GILA TAPAK SAKTI "Mad Mighty Fist" and ANGGINI. Wiro then comes to understand the teachings of 212, the balance of contrary forces and the thin line between good and evil. He becomes determined to improve himself...
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Wiro Sableng 212 (2018) Reviews
Great cinematographic, but need improvements in character building
I grew up as teenager in 1980's and I knew Wiro Sableng character from the novels. When I watch this movie it feels nostalgic to remember the memories of adolescence. The opposite for my teenage son, who grew up with Marvel comic characters, Batman v Superman movie, and Avengers films with super sophisticated CGI techniques, they were rather unable to enjoy this film. This Wiro Sableng film is very extraordinary in terms of artistic, camera system, lighting, and the natural beauty presented. However, the scenario is a lot of holes and deficiencies in terms of building character to be recognized by laypeople who do not know the characters in the novel Wiro Sableng. Don't expect too much to introduce the character of Wiro Sableng's stories to the international world, many Indonesian teenagers alone do not fully understand the characters displayed in this Wiro Sableng film. The uniqueness of Wiro Sableng's combat skills and Wiro's inner sanctum identity search should be explored in depth. Wiro Sableng movie Director is supposed to learn from the movie director "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" movie which was able to make the lay audience understand the deep character and the complicated storyline without having to read the book's own story. Another example is the SWORDSMAN film in the 1990s played by Jet Li. Although ordinary audiences never read the original novel, the audience understood the names of the characters and the greatness of the characters through the Swordsman story. Many lay audience who have never read Wiro Sableng's story are confused with many characters that appear because of "being forced" to appear in a very limited /short of time, without explanation of the background of the characters and the background history/review of the greatness of each character's combat skills. I am very proud that Indonesian films can cooperate with international film distributors. Screenwriters and directors should be able to display more in-depth information about the uniqueness of the character with the perspective of a new audience who have never heard of the story of Wiro Sableng. Most viewers who are able to be fascinated by this film are people who already understand the story of Wiro Sableng. But for lay audiences and teenagers who have never known the novel character Wiro Sableng will be confused with the appearance of characters which are explained in the novel but there is no explanation in the film so that the unique characters in the novel only appear very shallow and as if only a supplementary figures. I hope a lot from this Wiro Sableng's Film producer. Hopefully, if the sequel will be made, it can involve international class actors such as Iko Uwais or Joe Taslim. The movie director needs to learn a lot from the movie director: TSUI HARK in terms of storytelling techniques; or learn from William Kong; Hsu Li-kong; Ang Lee when they make "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" movie.
Not That Deep Storyline and Characters but Fun
At first, when I saw Yayan Ruhiyan involved in this movie, I had high expectations about how the action choreography is, but it's a little bit disappointing while there's no special movement or great fighting scene like what he did in The Raid series (while his colega, Iko Uwais, did amazingly in his new movie, Mile 22). But I think it's acceptable because of the age rating and this film segmentation. The story is simple and fun with some gag skits included. But it would be hard to you if you haven't known/searched about Wiro Sableng, especially foreign viewers, to follow the developments of the characters. Another disappointment because of some act like flying, punches, fights, are too overact and stiff to watch, and there's 1 of 2 tools that described as important thing, but Wiro Sableng didn't use it at all until the movie end. But you can say this movie is a real improvement for Indonesian Film industry, the CGI was good (but there are some scenes that ridiculous like "burning fire or sword punctures" (if you see the movie you'll realize those scenes)), the actor and actress was good, the gag that included in the movie were good. If they will make sequel of this movie (pretty sure they will), I hope there'll some improvement in action scenes and the development from each character.
Not worth your money
The humor is dry. Storyline flat. Too many characters to get hold of. When I saw the first scene, I thought, "Wow, this could be something really good", but it gets more and more boring throughout the rest of the movie. The fighting scenes are cringeworthy. They could have focused on the development of Wiro's character himself, but instead chose to introduce many others at once, quite randomly as well.
Great experience and very entertaining!
From the beginning of the film, the cinematic and great visual presentation is top notch. I feel like I was watching a hollywood movie, and the narration begins with the Journey of the hero itself. We flow through his journey (Wiro) from zero to hero with guidance from his master (Sinto). Final lesson that Sinto gave to Wiro is to be in a good side and always bring balance to the universe because there is always dark and light good and bad in every aspect. The story quite simple and flow along that we enjoy with some jokes here and there give you some fresh feeling watching this movie. The core and the story telling of this movie is stick to the original serial television Wiro Sableng. After all I recommend you watch this movie beacuse entertaining, great visuals cinematic and also great performance from all of the cast, great job!
Disappointment
To be honest, I never read the novel, and I'm not a fan of silat. So we're fairly talking about the movie itself without any nostalgic feelings. This movie is trying too hard to be a Hollywood-like movie. The scoring is quite good, but it's annoyingly exaggerating. Most of the times I need to read the English subtitles instead of listening to the dialogue because of the loud score. Well, it has quite interesting characters, but the dialogue is so poor that I cringed too much while watching it. The joke is fine, but it's overused. There's nothing special about the plot. I yawned most of the times in the cinema. Maybe the only good thing about this movie is the choreography they gave in the action scenes. Yayan Ruhian is quiet cool too. And that's all.