One part Terminator, one part Robocop, and one part Judge Dredd, melted down into a dreamy tokusatsu haze flooded with stunning imagery, all out production design, and brilliant practical effects. Keita Amemiya's Mechcanical Violator Hakaider is a wild, violent genre flip, taking the expected genre trappings of Japan's colorful hyperpop tokusatsu craze and inverting it into a grungy cyberpunk nightmare covered in blood and guts. Hosts Vaughn and Jack return to enter a whole new corner of action on film, breaking down the densely packed 50 minutes of Hakaider along with the dozens of films and genre ideas it exists in conversation with.

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On the inaugural episode of the show, it's Timo Tjahjanto's hyperviolent Indonesian martial arts splatterfest, a host favorite mach speed brutal action stunner. Starring martial arts legends Joe Taslim and Iko Uwais, this bloody, bone-snapping triad odyssey comes off the back of a filmography of twisted horror, infusing the dynamic energy of The Raid franchise with visceral, gory mayhem. The guys talk what makes the fights tick, the film's crazy kaleidoscope of action influence, and what cements The Night Comes For Us as a modern masterpiece of action.

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Vaughn on The Twin Geeks, Letterboxd, Twitter, and Bluesky.

Jack on The Twin Geeks, Letterboxd, Twitter, and Bluesky.