Preman Silent Fury (2022) 

To protect his son who has witnessed a murder, a deaf man must face off with the gang he used to be a part of. 

Written and directed by Randolph Zaini, the film has an interesting premise and includes the lead’s disability as simply part of life at times, something he has adapted to and also something that limits some of what he is doing. The writing here has some really good stuff, but overall, the film feels like it loses steam around the midway mark. It’s not that it’s boring after that, but it becomes harder for the viewer to care about the lead, and his son, and to keep up with the story. The way the film develops has some good points, some good scenes, and a few interesting developments, but the pace and the length of the film play against this.  

The cast is overall good with lead Paul Augusta giving a solid performance here. The cast here is more or less known in that Western audiences will most likely have limited memories of these folks on film, but this doesn’t mean they aren’t talented. The cast here is one that works as an ensemble, working together scene to scene and showing that they can bounce off of each other. Overall, the effect is good and they do the most out of the script at hand. As mentioned above, the film does lose steam, but this is not due to the cast. Also, supporting the cast and story is the fight choreography which here works with each person’s strengths and working with the stunt crew beautifully well. 

The film overall looks good and allows the viewer to see the fights, the cinematography by Xing-Mai Deng shows how to make the most of the film at hand and how to show the fights to make them fun to watch and have them help save the movie in terms of keeping the viewer’s attention. Overall, the film looks really good here and it’s definitely to its advantage. 

Preman Silent Fury is a decent film with some good fights throughout, it makes the most of its budget and of its self-imposed limitations in having a deaf lead. The acting is good, the fight choreography is strong. It sadly loses steam around the middle and doesn’t really reel back from it. Overall, a decent watch and one that is easy to keep up with, but also one that will lose some viewers before its ending.  

Preman Silent Fury is now available on disc from Well Go USA and on Hi-Yah! streaming service as one of their original releases.