“Borderless Fog” is an Indonesian thriller movie starring Putri Marino, Yoga Pratama and Lukman Sadi.
Another interesting thriller that comes to us from Indonesia in which, this time, jurisdictions are mixed and between the borders of Malaysia and Indonesia to get into very lurid topics, but without the film wanting to go beyond the thriller.
In addition, it informs us about a terrible situation on the island of Borneo in a case that, although fictional, has many tinges of reality.
A well-set thriller that mixes superstition with borderline reality in a complicated place.
Plot
On the island of Borneo, between Malaysia and Indonesia, a policewoman arrives from Jakarta to investigate a terrible crime: two decapitated men. There she is not well received, but her investigations lead her to the legend of Ambong, a kind of ghost that lives in the fog of the jungle.
But the detective gradually discovers a much more macabre and daunting reality.
About the film
Above all, “Borderless Fog” is a good thriller: well paced, well acted and a plot that, sticking to its genre, manages to entertain and, incidentally, to make us encounter the difficult reality between the borders of Malaysia and Indonesia and the shady business there: human trafficking.
But “Borderless Fog” is not a film that comes to make a political denunciation of a social reality, it is basically a well handled thriller that seeks to shock and entertain.
A thriller with good characters, with a couple of interesting detectives and secondary characters that give rhythm to the story in an intelligently elaborated script that leaves brushstrokes of the mystery little by little.
The film has quality also in the photographic aspect, but without making an impact for its images: having a good photography, it prefers to focus on being a correct thriller, without looking for originality neither in its rhythmic nor thematic or aesthetic aspects.
A good thriller that is neither original nor surprising, but it does achieve what it sets out to do: to show a reality through a fictional story that entertains.
A good violent crime film with a sad, very sad reality that underlies the fiction itself.
Our opinion
Good mystery thriller, one of those macabre murders that, thanks to a good script, manages to interest and carry the film aesthetically, rhythmically and argumentatively well achieved.
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