When Netflix announced its exclusive production of seven Indonesian films and series in September 2022, few expected it to be an overnight success. But by the end of the year, the first film in the series, Timo Chajanto’s The Big Four, was one of the video-on-demand giant’s most-watched films outside of English.
Tjahjanto’s first action comedy, with over 16 million hours watched, tells the story of Dina, a no-nonsense detective. In her search for clues to the unsolved murder of her late father, she ends up on a remote tropical island and finds herself with the same group of ill-fated secret assassins her father once trained for the rest of her life. fighting for
Bloody and boasting some of the best action scenes Tjahjanto is famous for, The Big 4 hit Netflix’s Top 10 in 53 countries, including Argentina, Mexico, Finland and Spain. In the U.S., a notoriously difficult market to break, it ranked 5th after debuting on December 15th.
“It’s thrilling to see how the story resonates and you can travel around the world,” Tjahjanto told Variety as the film became more and more popular in December. The action flick, The Night Comes for Us (2018), was the first Netflix original film produced in Indonesia.
