Tag Archive for Iko Uwais

Mile 22

Director Peter Berg Starring Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais Rated MA Score 4/6 An elite American intelligence officer, aided by a top-secret tactical command unit, tries to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of the country. This is the fourth time that Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg have worked together. There…

Man of Tai Chi

Director Keanu Reeves Starring Keanu Reeves, Iko Uwais, Tiger Hu Chen Rated 4.5/6 Rated MA A young martial artist’s unparalleled Tai Chi skills land him in a highly lucrative underworld fight club. This was an interesting choice for Keanu Reeves’ first movie as a director, purely because of the use of Tai Chi, considering that…

Merantau

Directed by Gareth Evans Staring Iko Uwais, Sisca Jessica and Christine Hakim Rated MA Score 6/6 Yuda is a skilled practitioner of Silat – a very deadly Indonesian martial art. It’s now time for him to make the time-honoured pilgrimage from his farming village to the bustling city of Jakarta – a journey known as…

The Raid Redemption

Directed by Gareth Evans Staring Iko Uwais, Ananda George and Ray Sahetapy Rating MA Score 6/6 A SWAT team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs. I hope that The Raid got a cinematic release in Australia, though I am glad that I picked this…