Borderless Fog

One of the worst films in the name of serial killer thriller. Muddled story and screen play and drags on and on with stupid side stories. The main character looks constipated all the time and seems to do nothing through the film. Tries to shock Avoid and pls spare yourself a headache.

First, the plot is a haphazard mess. What starts as a mysterious serial killer story quickly devolves into a series of clichéd scenes and illogical twists. The storyline meanders aimlessly, with so many convoluted subplots that it becomes difficult to follow or care about the characters' fates.

In summary, this film is a missed opportunity. It offers neither the thrills nor the chills you'd expect from a horror movie. If you're in the mood for a genuine scare, you might want to look elsewhere.

Borderless Fog: An Indonesian Noir serial killer film set on the border with Malaysia. It might well have fitted into Folk Horror as the ghost of a long dead freedom fighter is suspected by some as being responsible for the killings. Members of the Dayak ethnic minority on both sides of the border see him as their guardian. As so often happens, locals who campaign for autonomy, human rights and an end to land grabbing are smeared as communists. After a decapitated corpse is found it is soon discovered that the body and the head belong to different people, one of whom is an army officer. Sanja (Putri Marino) a detective from Jakarta is called in, she soon discovers that the local police are incompetent and corrupt. She also becomes aware of cross border human trafficking of girls, as the body count mounts; some of the deaths seem to be related to this. There is a parallel narrative where three girls are lost in the jungle when their trafficker is killed. The jungle is dark, eerie, this adds to the folk horror feel as do some of the many odd characters. Like so many Noir detectives, Sanja has her own past demons and this threatens to derail her investigation. Most of the violence and killing occurs off screen but there is enough gore here to disturb/satisfy serial killer film fans. Borderless Fog would have benefited from a 10 minute cut in its 112 minute running time and the ending is rather ambiguous with a sometimes confusing plot. It is worth watching though. Directed by Edwin from a screenplay by Edwin and Ifan Ismail. On Netflix. 7/10.

This Indonesian killer thriller is so disjointed it's almost incoherent. In fact the only thing that keeps this movie from being completely incomprehensible is that it adheres so closely to genre tropes that you can fill in most of the blanks with inferences from standard Scandi-Noir. A plucky lady cop with a dark secret gets assigned to track a rural serial killer with a local motive in the steaming jungles of ... whoah! Is that a Predator?!? Get to da choppa! Wait, sorry, false alarm. So anyway there's some expected procedural stuff, red herrings, and character revelations; and then in the final act the script goes way off formula, leading to a confused and confusing finale. Don't waste your time.

Borderless Fog is a detective film with an interesting story concept. Themes in this film include power, honesty, guilt and corruption. The story of this film has actually been used a lot, but what is contained in it is quite complex even though there are still shortcomings. This film presents quite a lot of scenes that are considered gruesome, and provides a tense sensation throughout the film. The mystery of who the real killer is is not revealed at all and is closed with an open ending. Unfortunately, there is too much mystery packed into this film, and it ends up being a bit of a mess. The characterization of Ipda Sanja's character here, like in most detective films, is always haunted by events in the past that make her job difficult. The cinematography doesn't feel cheap, the movement and angle shots help to build a tense and mysterious atmosphere. The tone of this film is also quite dark, but it also has a neo-noir vibe from the coloring. The music scoring is the same, with the right timing, it makes the vibes even more scary. Putri Marino's acting is really cool as her character, and the acting of the other actors is also really good. Overall, this is a quite exciting film even though it is a bit slowburn.

"I don't understand why this film received such a poor rating. This is the first film that I find very realistic. It portrays the actual conditions of the Indonesia-Malaysia border region, where the culture and social dynamics are the same but the countries are different, depicted very well.

This is the work of the genius anthropologist Dave Lumenta, which describes the conditions at the end of the New Order era in Indonesia. Perhaps viewers or outsiders' expectations might not grasp this and assume it is merely fantasy."

"I have never seen an Indonesian film that is truly bold in presenting a very sensitive story, such as the Dayak tribal customs, communism, and mysticism, all within a single narrative."