Headshot

A man is found washed up on a beach with a bullet in his head and no memory of who he is. A young doctor treats him and helps him recover, but his past catches up with him when a drug lord named Lee, who has influence reaching into the police and the prison system, comes after him. The doctor is taken, and the man, known as Ishmael, must fight his way through a group of skilled fighters who may once have been his own associates. His memories return in fragments as he faces them.

Headshot was released in 2016 and runs 118 minutes. It is an Indonesian and Singaporean action, crime, drama and thriller, produced by Screenplay Infinite Films and written by Timo Tjahjanto, who directed it with Kimo Stamboel. For both directors it followed Killers from 2014, and for Tjahjanto it preceded The Night Comes For Us in 2018. The leads are Iko Uwais as Ishmael, Chelsea Islan as Ailin, Sunny Pang as Lee, Julie Estelle as Rika, Very Tri Yulisman as Besi and David Hendrawan as Tejo. The credited cast runs to 39 names.

On IMDb the film holds a critics' rating of 6.2 out of 10 from 50 reviews, and on TMDB it has a rating of 6.4 out of 10 from 508 votes. The two scores sit close together, indicating roughly similar assessments from critics and audiences.