TIFF is about to get underway, excitingly, and Team Playlist are currently winging their way to Toronto to begin our coverage tomorrow. If you’ve never been to this festival, or any others, you might be forgiven for thinking that it’s full of high-falutin, austere movies about Estonian abortions or Venezuelan divorces. But festival programmers and ticket buyers like to unwind a little bit too, and so you get a film like “Headshot.”
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Set to get its North American premiere at the festival, the movie’s a vehicle for Iko Uwais, who broke out so memorably in “The Raid” and its even more brutal and bloody sequel. This film returns him to his ass-kicking ways, in a sort of Indonesian spin on Jason Bourne, as an amnesiac man who falls for the woman who nursed him back to health, only to discover that he’s a trained killing machine with a big target on his back.
The films hails from directors Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel, who directed features “Macabre” and “Killers,” though you might know Tjahjanto better for co-directed the awesome “Safe Haven” segment of “V/H/S 2” with “The Raid” director Gareth Evans. This looks to be a similar vein to Evans’ work, with some impressive and painful-looking action choreography on display, and buzz going into the festival is pretty good. Will this be the genre discovery of TIFF? We’ll find out in the days to come. Watch the trailer below. [Collider]