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Buffalo Boys
Perhaps revenge is the best way to return the lost spirit again. The story begins with two brothers, Jamar and Suwo, who are returning to the land of Java to avenge their father, who was a sultan who appears to have been a real cause of the tragedy. It was a real tragedy lived by both brothers through years of exile in America and perhaps revenge is the solution.
7 December 1978, Jakarta, Indonesia
6 February 1985, Jakarta, Indonesia
28 November 1983, Ivory Coast
2 September 1963, Jakarta, Indonesia
November 17, 1949 in Bohorok, Oostkust van Sumatra, Dutch East Indies [now Bahorok, North Sumatra, Indonesia]
12 April 1989, Jakarta, Indonesia
January 22, 2019
Preoccupied with pure, unabashed enjoyment, a decision that leads to its chief triumphs. It may not lead to any grand revelation about colonialism, but it certainly is a wild and electrifying journey.
January 14, 2019
But the best element, as with Five Fingers, is the use of American cinematic imagery to frame a story that's uniquely non-American.
January 10, 2019
The fights are leaden... and the character development is constrained by dumb dialogue, such meager tending-to of an Asian action flick's primary draw is nigh unforgivable.
January 13, 2019
Opposite the film's clear-eyed and deeply angry ruminating on colonialism, the flatness of the narrative emotionally makes this a bizarrely off-kilter viewing experience.
February 12, 2019
Funny as it is, the viewer has a hard time deciding if it is cool neo-western or outright camp.
January 14, 2019
Overall ... Buffalo Boys delivers on its initial promise of a thrilling tweak to familiar tropes.
January 11, 2019
[A] moderately entertaining, immoderately splattery spaghetti Western...
January 17, 2019
It's a wonderfully refreshing take on the Western genre thanks to the culturally significant setting and the awesome action sequences, even if other aspects of the film fall short.
July 31, 2018
On a sheer popcorn-entertainment level, the film is great fun to watch.
January 11, 2019
While Buffalo Boys may not be everything it could have been, it is sometimes good enough.
January 11, 2019
Buffalo Boys ends up somewhat awkwardly caught between mainstream glorifications of violence and more restrained cultural norms emphasizing respect and harmony. This inherent creative conflict however remains mostly obscured by the action-oriented plot...
January 10, 2019
This 19th-century genre mashup can be giddy fun, though it's a good deal more mindless than its historical context would have you believe.