Tarung Sarung

Plot is so much similar to your original Karate Kid movie that the protagonist even have similar name. That's the only passable part. Well, that and Yayan Ruhian being a calm caretaker.

The original Karate Kid movie introduce and let audience learn about the people and cultures of Japanese. So, the maker in this movie attempt to do the same. But instead of culture of certain ethnicity, it is now a religious culture, Islam. The once coming of age action movie is now a religious movie, which some people may find the approach cringey, absurd, and even ridiculous.

Starting from the beginning, the movie attempted so hard to give an impression that the leading character is so rich beyond belief. I believe Indonesian audience are so fed-up with self-proud scenes with mixed language in the conversation. To look smart and sophisticated by mixing English and Bahasa. Unfortunately, they look so prententious instead and unwatchable indeed.

More real fighers should be involved the making of the movie. But even then lazy acting and directing make this movie unbearable to watch. Don't waste your time. Go watch something else.

I really enjoy martial art movies. And it seems that the real martial artist are only yayan ruhian and his bro. The fight coreography seems really weak and fake. This movies would be better if at least they use real fighters for the main characters.

Tarung Sarung very creative film. Introducing the culture of the Indonesian tribes in this film goes very well. A lot of values that can be understood from Tarung Sarung.

A lot of moral messages in this film. good plot but standard twist. type of badik are badik gallang from makassarnese, it should used badik lagecong from buginese. because the bugis and makassarnese are different tribes, different language, different traditional music, different custom clothing, although many similarities. Also, location at rammang-rammang, maros (The term for this place comes from the makassar language. rammang2 in the makassar language means fog. ) and selayar, actually the people in that two place didn't use bugis language, but makassar language (in rammang2) and silajara tanete/palemba language (in selayar) :D. last, If dani is a bugis person and he returns to his hometown, he should go home to bone/soppeng/sidrap/pinrang/pangkep/sengkang district, not to makassar, it's the same as you tell the Javanese to return to the land of sundanese, or vice versa.... :)) but in spite of that, this film is amazing.