Merantau, a British director''s movie, Gareth Huw Evans gives cool nuance in Indonesian movie industry which is dominated by horror and romantic comedy genre. Take set at West Sumatra, the movie is full of
pencak silat harimau scene which is the trait of Minangkabau. The movie tell about Yuda (Iko Uwais), a young man who masterred pencak silat harimau will move to
Jakarta. He should leave his Mother (Christine Hakim), his brother
Yayan (Donny Alamsyah) and a girl he loves. At the last night before he leave, the movie show a happy family scene where all of them (Yuda, Yayan, and their mother) eat together, pray together and heart to heart talks. Finally Yuda leave to Jakarta. In the way to Jakarta, he meet Eric (Yayan Ruhian). Eric told about his bad experince in Jakarta and it has destroy Yuda''s dream about how beauty Jakarta are. When arrive at Jakarta, Yuda meet a brother and sister, Astrid and Adit. Yuda then gets into their problem and Yuda help both of them from bad mens who involve in human trafficking from Europe. This movie is interesting with many action scene ala Jacky Chan.