Director:
Angga Dwimas SasongkoCámara:
Arnand PratiktoMúsica:
Abel HurayReparto:
Ardhito Pramono, Lutesha, Chicco Kurniawan, Rio Dewanto, Ganindra Bimo, Putri Ayudya, Andri Mashadi, Muhammad Khan, Niken Anjani, Rukman Rosadi, Aksara DenaSinopsis(1)
Spurred by a video ransom note from a militant anti-bank outfit (“send 100 Bitcoins or see the city of Jakarta blown up”), the Indonesian bureau of counter-terrorism picks up Oscar and William, nerdy co-founders of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The two men are forced into cooperating with the bureau to trace the militants, but they soon find themselves caught up in an intricate cat-and-mouse game with a tech-savvy enemy. Loosely inspired by the biggest financial fraud in Indonesian history, Angga Dwimas Sasongko’s smart, taut action thriller 13 Bombs revolves around the promises and treacheries of digital currencies. The narrative weaves together three points of view: those of the entrepreneurs, the bureau and the militants themselves, who come across not as dramatic abstractions, but full-fledged characters with rational, even humanist motivations. The film balances tense passages of cybernetic sleuthing with high-octane action sequences set in streets, factories and high-rise apartments, illustrating the interplay between intelligence and brute force in any security operation. Powered by an affable dynamic between Oscar, William and his girlfriend Agnes, 13 Bombs offers a slick actioner that is entirely of its time. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
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Indonesia also adds its hand this year with a decent adrenaline action flick. Angga Dwimas Sasongko is one of Indonesia's more aspiring filmmakers, but only now has he made a film that I can appreciate above average, even though his Stealing Raden Saleh has had a decent amount of success abroad. Here you can see a very decent budget and it looks like a nice A-list production, the best this country can produce. The story focuses on terrorists who cause chaos in Jakarta when they plant 13 bombs with the threat that one will explode every 8 hours, they want 100 Bitcoins as a ransom. This terrorist attack is the result of a fight against the financial mafia and oligarchs, and is quite interesting and novel. The film has a solid pace, there's always something going on and it moves forward very quickly, the action scenes are decent, it's R-rated and the shootouts have that proper military feel. Midway through the film the pace calms down a bit but the ending kicks in again, there's an unexpected twist and some knife duels as well, so a very pleasant surprise for me. I love fighting terrorists and when a decent budget is added to it, the fun is taken care of. 75%
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