Ocean's Eleven + Tarantino + Comedy Gold.
An Indonesian movie about eight men with various reasons and motives to do a bank robbery. There were robbed because of worries, Hobby, Fad, Adrenaline Sports, Rob, and some even to support orphanages and the poor.
These eight Marauders are divided into three groups. Their Action was developed as a robbery that initially looks like a strange coincidence, besieged by police forces, until finally they must work together and find the answer to solve this puzzling case and look for the best solution to end everything.
In Indonesia, this movie has a tight commercial rivalry against The Raid 2: Berandal; both films have accumulated millions of viewers in a relatively short time.
On July 15, 2015, the film received its sequel, Comic 8: Casino Kings Part 1, and its part two was released on March 3, 2016
Comic 8 contains examples of:
- As Himself: Nearly EVERYONE in this movie plays themselves.
- Brainwashed: Pandji brainwashed his patients to be robbers.
- Bullet Catch: The axe gang leader shot Mongol, but Mudy catches the bullet WITH HIS BARE TEETH!
- Explosive Stupidity: The robbers pulled a grenade's pin but did not immediately throw it to the target, TWICE!
- Fun with Acronyms: When each criminal group is planning their heist, they are constantly referring to "Bank INI" (Indonesian for "THIS Bank") as their target. We later find out that "INI" stands for "Indonesian Netherlands Incorporated".
- Harmless Electrocution: After delivering the money, Pandji electrocute all his eight brainwashed patients to unconscious and sent them to the police to frame his plan
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Neither the cops or the robbers can't shoot straight. in the end, nobody dies, Played for Laughs indeed
- Improvised Weapon: When the gang is being chased by the cops, Bintang uses some chemicals that happen to be in their car to make a bomb. It doesn't work.
- Impossibly Cool Weapon:
- Mudy's arsenal: GUITAR MACHINE GUN and VIOLIN CASE/ROCKET LAUNCHER WITH A HELLO KITTY FACE AS IT'S TRIGGER...ehm, must be seen to be believed.
- Ge Pamungkas' axe can turn into a gun.
- Instrument of Murder: Mudy has a guitar that doubles as a machine gun, and the case doubles as a bazooka.
- The Mole:
- Nikita Mirzani, disguised as one of the bank tellers to supervise the brainwashed heroes' heist operation so they can successfully deliver the money to Pandji.
- Candil, who also supervised the brainwashed heroes' heist operation, but he is on Indro's side
- Also Ge Pamungkas, who framed Pandji's conversation with Nikita
- More Dakka: Mudy's guitar gun got an insanely high fire rate.
- One-Man Army: Mudy plays Rambo against a barricade of cops, while Mongol can beat six of the main cast in hand-to-hand combat alone.
- Outdated Outfit: Babe's disco outfit - this isn't the 80s anymore.
- Shout-Out: Joe P's quote "Hantam mereka" is the same thing Joe Taslim's character says in The Fast And The Furious 6.
- The Smurfette Principle: Nikita Mirzani is the only female member on Pandji's side
- Soul Brotha: Arie Kriting, he's a black man who grooves, swags, and kicks ass while talking slang.
- Suicide Attack: Kemal Palevi hid a suicide vest behind his clothing. he threatened to blow up the bank but was calmed by Indro, and the bomb was later used by Nikita Mirzani to blow the money safe.
- Swiss-Army Weapon: The Axe Gang leader's axe, it's an axe yet a gun.
- Taking the Bullet: Subverted, Mudy takes the bullet aimed at Mongol and he survives, twice as awesome since he caught the bullet with HIS BARE TEETH.
- Twist Ending: the eight robbers are actually action heroes, led by Indro Warkop, who voluntarily got brainwashed so Pandji and Lontong's plan can be exposed to the public, also Candil and Agus Kuncoro are not dead, in fact, NOBODY DIES.
- Weapon Specialization: Lots of unique cast with their unique weapon.
- Fico and Ence both use gear twister.
- Mongol choose to fight bare-handed.
- All The axe gang member uses...well that's obvious.
- Their leader uses a gun-axe hybrid.
- Arie Kriting is an expert in knives, but ironically never use any knife in the entire movie.
- Mudy is an interesting example: GUITAR MACHINEGUN AND ROCKET LAUNCHER VIOLIN CASE.
- Indro warkop relies on his hypnosis skill.
- The rest use handguns and machineguns.
