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THE SHADOW STRAYS MOVIE REVIEW
You like the John Wick movies? How about The Raid movies and a touch of Taken? Action. Violence. Extreme violence. And like, a Ninja Scroll amount of blood? The Shadow Strays might be exactly what you need to satisfy your masochist cinematic action itch. It certainly did for the One Of Us Ninjas, Kate, Lewayne, and T.C. Codename 13 is a 17-year-old trained assassin known as a Shadow. She is part of an international organization of assassins. While on a mission in Japan, she successfully eliminates her primary target. However, 13 is dazed after accidentally killing a bystander and is incapacitated. Umbra, 13’s mentor, rescues her and reprimands the young ninja for her lapse in focus. 13 is put on suspension for psych retraining in Jakarta. There, she waits and waits and waits for her next mission, until one of her own making presents itself in witnessing a young boy’s mother being attacked by a group of high ranking underworld criminals. 13 begins a mission of revenge that’s not unlike John Wick’s righteous retribution on the entire Russian mob over the death of his sweet, little puppy. Throughout her bloody rampage, her evil-doing victims beg and scream and demand to know WHY she is doing this. But maybe 13 doesn’t even know the answer to that. And maybe it doesn’t matter. With action sequences this complex, it probably doesn’t.
DIRECTED BY: Timo Tjahjanto
STARRING: Aurora Ribero, Hana Malasan, Taskya Namya, Agra Piliang, Andri Mashadi, Chew Kin Wah, Naomi Hitanayri Christy, Mawar Eva de Jongh, Adipati Dolken, Daniel Ekaputra, Evy Fauziah, Ali Fikri, Banon Gautama, Tanta Ginting, Kristo Immanuel, Anty Indah, Hiroaki Kato, Eva Celia, Yayan Ruhian
YOUR REVIEWERS
T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)
T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.
Kate Chambers (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)
Kate is a certified horror fiend and Horse Girl™. Her name isn’t short for anything. A native Austinite, she graduated with a BFA in Film Production from the University of Colorado Boulder then returned to the Lone Star State to make her home amid the cinephiles of the Alamo Drafthouse and the Austin Film Society. In her spare time, you can find her either down at the barn with her noble steed Jazz, watching as many movies as possible (often at work), cuddling with her pair of black cats and writing horror scripts, or nursing a beer in any available body of water… or doing Duolingo, where she’s currently on a 1000+ day streak.
Lewayne White (Screener Squad)
Lewayne’s earliest memories are of watching movies and reading comics, which instilled in him a sense of wonder, a vivid imagination, and unrealistic expectations. It also means he spends a lot of time watching movies, writing scripts for them, and trying to get them made. He lives in the middle of middle America after landing there as a child, and has remained there mainly because he hates packing.
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