YMMV / The Night Comes for Us

• Complete Monster: Chien Wu is a cruel member of the Six Seas who happily takes orders from his unseen bosses. Having a helping hand in orchestrating the massacre of a "shithole village" because they were siphoning his gang's money, Chien Wu tries to have the traitor Ito killed alongside the survivor Reina. Getting Ito's crew killed in an apartment massacre, Chien Wu tasks Ito's former friend Arian to kill him in return for a position in the Six Seas, only to have him viciously gunned down once he fails to do so.
• Magnificent Bitch: The woman known only as "the Operator" is a mysterious hired gun assigned to eliminate the Six Seas. Introduced using darkness and a laser sight to kill off terrified goons, the Operator further proves her insane skills when she duels Ito, quickly marking her as the only person capable of defeating him in single combat. Twisting Ito to her goals and sending her after the Six Seas agent Arian, the Operator protects the young girl Reina from assassins Alma and Elena, using the womens' own weapons against them and taking them both on at once. The Operator ultimately outwits and kills Alma, Elena and an entire armed squad in their employ, saving Reina and returning her to Ito once Arian is dead, the Operator moving on to continue her mission to dismantle the Six Seas.
• Narm:
  • Iko Uwais's acting when Chien Wu gives Arian a second chance to kill Ito is a little too melodramatic, especially when he speaks English.
  • Ito's and Arian's primal screaming during their duel is initially powerful and intimidating, but becomes hilarious after the first 20 screams or so.
  • During the final duel, Arian accidentally kicks an iron pillar and screams in pain — an oddly humorous moment that detracts from the tension the scene is trying to build.
• Narm Charm: The increasingly gruesome wounds that Ito and Arian deliver to each other during their final duel are a bit too extreme to take seriously. It's obvious that no ordinary human being would still be alive, let alone walking and talking, after losing such ridiculously large amounts of blood, but for many viewers, the over-the-top nature of the scene just adds to the film's charm.
• Nightmare Fuel: The insanely gory butcher shop fight, which includes such notable sights as a thug getting a Glasgow Grin that puts The Joker to shame before having his head crushed by a flank of meat, Ito impaling one thug on a meathook, and one guy getting his leg sawed off only to be "mercifully" finished by a sharp bone to the throat.
• Padding: For how awesome the assault on Fatih's apartment is, it takes up 15 minutes and slows the plot to a crawl to show off as much bloodshed as it can.
• Special Effects Failure:
  • When the Operator first appears, finishing off the thugs who just killed Fatih, the muzzle flashes are poorly synced to the actual wounds inflicted. In one case, a gunman falls dead a full second before she even aims at him.
  • When The Operator tears off her damaged finger, the bend in Julie Estelle's real pinkie is visible (though partially hidden by her other three fingers), revealing that it's simply a prosthetic glued to the second knuckle. The resulting "stump" also has no exposed bone or other gore one might expect to see, especially in a film like this.
• Squick: If you were squeamish just watching The Raid, you won't last very long watching this one.
• Vanilla Protagonist: While Joe Taslim offers an excellent performance as The Stoic protagonist Ito and, of course, makes way for some massively badass fight sequences, his overall lack of expression tends to make him the least interesting character in the story, especially when compared to such colorful personalities as Arian, Ito's friends, and The Operator.