The Big 4
The film we will read today is “THE BIG 4” an Indonesian action-comedy film directed by Timo Tjahjanto. Releasing in December 2022 the film combines elements of action, comedy and drama starring Abimana Aryasatya (Topan), Putri Marino (Dina) and Lutesha (Alpha).
One morning the Nun took the boy Jono to an orphanage hoping that Jona would be well taken care of there. However, it turns out that the orphanage is a place where children are kept captive to sell their organs.
Jono was put in a cell with a teenager named Pilor and he assured Jono that they would be able to escape from this place because he said he would save them as well as the other children but when Pilor said that the staff suddenly pulled him because he it is said that the organ will be taken.
When Pilor was anesthetized and the surgery process was going to be preformed in a room. Arif the owner of the illegal business received a visitor who was a rich businessman named Bob who came to buy Pilor’s organs while watching the operation process. So Bob asked Arif if he also felt guilty about his business and Arif replied that he felt guilty once too but he ignored it.
He said that regret would only hinder his success. Upon hearing this, Bob suddenly grabbed Arif’s shoulder tightly while in the operating room the doctor was about to cut open Pilor’s stomach, Bob suddenly aimed at Arif and immediately shot him. Bob turns out to be a hit man named Topan from a group called “THE BIG 4” and is trying to save Pilor who is also one of his group.
They also conspired with a nurse in the operating room named Alpha after killing some of the guards. There Alpha, Pilor and Topan went straight to another room to save the children they did their job well as their boss ordered.
When all the children were gathered and ready to leave the orphanage another member of The Big 4 the sniper named Jenggo immediately showed his skills to help Topan and the children. All the children are finally save.
Meanwhile in another place the girl named Dina is waiting for her father in a photo studio. Dina is working as a police officer when her inauguration is near she asks her father to take a picture of Dina’s father Petrus and it turns out that Petrus is the boss of The Big 4 but this whole time there is no Dina knows about her father’s work.
Petrus also did not want to confess to her daughter that he was a hit man but promised that one day he would surely admit it too after taking his daughter home. Petrus returned to his headquarters to have dinner with The Big 4 whom he considered to be like children.
That night while having fun at their dining room, they watched the news broadcast about Arif’s orphanage. In the broadcast it was seen that the children who were held captive there have been rescued but the police chief Hassan will still process this case because for him even though The Big 4 saved the children and acted like heroes they should still be held accountable for breaking the law and killing people in the process of saving children.
After watching the news, Petrus inform The Big 4 that he will retire as a hit man and hopes that Topan, Alpha, Jenggo and Pilor will continued his business. It seems that he wants to enjoy his retirement in peace with Dina and thought that he also needs to protect Dina in addition to that he also doesn’t want to get into trouble with Hassan who despite being the chief of police is also his bestfriend.
The next day, while Petrus was preparing himself to attend the inauguration ceremony of his daughter as a police officer suddenly a stranger came walking back and forth in front of his house. He took the gun and immediately opened the door but it turned out to be his neighbor to say that a courier delivered the flowers he ordered. He ordered flowers yesterday to give to his daughter and he told the courier to put the flowers in the house but unexpectedly Petrus fell into a trap because this stranger who disguised himself as a courier immediately killed Petrus by stabbing him with a dagger.
Not long after the mysterious courier left, Topan went to Petrus house to give the hat he left at their base. Dina also arrived just in time and caught Topan there. So she accused him of killing his father and immediately shot Topan, Fortunately, Topan was able to leave the incident immediately. Not only Dina mourned the death of Petrus but also Topan and his friends because they also considered Petrus as their own father. Later The Big 4 decided to go lay low first and disperse to distant place.
Three years later, Dina is now alone in the apartment and is still trying to investigate the case of her father’s murder to the point that her work at the office is often neglected. His commander first advised her to take a vacation because she had not taken a vacation in three years of her career.
At first DIna rejected it because she said that working is the only inspiration foe her to live but because her commander kept encouraging her. She finally accepted the brochure that the commander gave her that she would go on vacation. Arriving home Dina notices an Inn printed in the brochure and she suddenly remembers something. She immediately takes out her late father’s storage box to confirm her suspicion and she indeed sees in a picture that her father was in Villa Paranais wearing the same hat of what her thought was the killer.
Dina also noticed in the picture that her father was not alone but with four other children. In this scene Dina still did not know that the one with the hat was convinced that he really killed her father. Dina is sure that one of the children in the picture will be able to teach her father’s killer.
Then, She went straight to Hassan and asked him to find those children and hope that this time she would able to solve the case. However, instead of immediately conducting an investigation, Hassan thought that those children were just ordinary children in the village. Dina is angry because she is sure they are related to her father’s killer because Hassan is not taking her allegations seriously Dina decides to take paid leave from her job and takes advantage of it to solve the case on her own.
Later, Dina arrived in Bersi, a tropical island where the Villa Paranais is located. She immediately entered the Villa and there she met Topan. When he saw Dina coming he immediately panicked but he managed to calm himself and greeted Dina warmly at the Villa without hesitation. Dina immediately asked Topan if he asked Topan if he knew his father and the four children in the picture which Topan replied that he did not know them. Later she rented a room for the night because she wanted to continue the search next day and would ask other people who lived around the Villa Paranais.
At first Topan refused and tried to et Dina out by all means but Dina persisted and gave the payment so Topan had no choice but to take her to the room to stay while Topan was preparing the room he noticed two suspicious men who arrived at Villa Paranais. Topan thought that those two men were Dinas colleagues in the police but Dina said that she came alone.
Topan returned to the lobby ask the two men what they were up to, Topan greeted them warmly and found out that these men were both hired to spy on and kill Dina. At the beginning of the trip to Villa Paranais, because he didn’t want Dina to be harmed Topan deliberately played with the two men and turned the radio up loud so that Dina wouldn’t hear the commotion,
Then the battle started beween Topan and the two hired men. One against two, Topan retreated and was almost killed but thanks to Dina who suddenly called and temporarily distracted the enemies so that in the end Topan was able to beat the two men.
Shortly, after the battle Dina accidentally saw Petrus photo on the reception desk and she also discovered the fact that Topan had been working at this Villa Paranais for three years. At that moment Dina immediately urged Topan to explain everything after being killed the two hit men.
Topan explained to Dina that he and his three siblings were adopted by Petrus and took care of them since childhood. Upon hearing this, Dina realized that the reason why her father always had no time for her was because she already suspected them as suspects in the murder of his father.
He forced Topan to tell where his three siblings were and finally Topan accompanied Dina to meet them. They first went to Jenggo who now works as an albulary, Jenggo welcomed Dina although Jenggo was anxious about her arrival, he still tried to calm down and serve Dina by giving her a potion that is said to be able to remove negative auras.
However, because he was busy taking to Topan, he mistakenly took a potion that was supposed to be God’s crown but instead what he got was a frog’s skin because the potion made Dina hallucinate and became more aggressive, Pilor comes to show off his golden gun and Dina attacks him wantonly. It’s good that Jenggo acted immediately by attacking Dina’s butt with an anesthetic and finally the chaos ended.
Meanwhile, in another place the man named Antonio who is also a hit man along with this woman Alo and some former members of military are slaughtering their own partners for greater profit. After the massacre Antonio received a mysterious call the caller said to him that Antonio go somewhere because he has more important work to do, The place the caller referring to was Villa Paranais and Antonio was instructed to find and kill all the members of The Big 4 as well as Dina.
Arriving at Villa Paranais they found nothing there except two men dead. Antonio immediately looked for The Big 4 and dispersed his men. Back at Jenggo’s place, Topan was force to tie Dina outside the hut so she wouldn’t get lost again. Then he went back inside to discuss with Jenggo and Pilor Dina’s purpose in coming here and he also said that there are hit men who want to kill Dina.
Whie dicussing how to protect Dina from the hit men, She suddenly lost her bonds and outside the hut they saw Antonio’s men coming. They found Jenggo’s hideout and were immediately bombarded with caliber weapons because of the dangerous situation Topan planned to find DIna while Jenggo and Pilor were left behind and looking for a way to survive the attacks on them.
Pilor who had never used any weapon was encouraged by Jenggo to use the golden gun he was carrying but this gun turned out to be just a lighter so Jenggo was forced to fight alone with his arrow. Topan arrived at the right time to help DIna fortunately as a policeman he is also good aat martial arts so they quickly defeated Antonio’s men.
here Dina also realizes that Topan is not an ordinary receptionist so Dina forces Topan to tell the truth but this is not the right time to explain everything to Dina. Topan tell Dina to trust him and he will also explain everything to him later because they had to go back to the hut immediately to help Jenggo.
It turned out that Jenggo had no other weapons to fight against Antonio except arrows. As the older brother Jenggo told Pilor to run away before they both were destroyed then he faced Antonio and his men alone. When Jenggo ran out of strength to fight Antonio. Topan soon came and held one of Antonio’s men captive unfortunately Antonio didn’t care and instead killed his own men.
After he confronted Topan in a fierce battle when he saw that Topan was badly injured Antonio smiled with satisfaction then he revealed to Topan that he actually killed Petrus because of his deep grudge against the old man. It turns out that Antonio was the first adopted by Petrus but Pertus rejected him because he said that the old man could not control him because to his great disappointment Antonio was determined to kill all The Big 4 as well as Dina.
When he was about to stab Topan eye’s with the dagger. He suddenly heard the sound of music coming from the sound of Pilor’s carriage with Dina. They came to save with a bazooka mafe by Pilor to give Topan and Jenggo enough time to escape from Antonio’s hands.
When he found out that Topan and Jenggohad escaped. Antonio immediately took his motorcycle to chase them while being bombarded with bullets. He shot Topan and Jenggo several times but Topan was able to attack him with fireworks and knocked Antonio off his motorcycle.
After escaping from Antonio and his men they immediately looked for a safe place to hide. Dina helped Jenggo treat the wound on Topan’s body but when she discovered Topan’s scar on his back she was immediately convinced that Topan was the one she was looking for who was thought to have killed her father that night.
Dina was so angry at Topan’s lying that she started attacking him and the left. Pilor even tried to calm her down because he was worried that Antonio’s men might find her. Pilor tries to explain to Dina that Topan in not the one who killed Petrus and to prove it Pilor urges her to meet with Alpha who will explain to her the whole truth.
Meanwhile Topan and Jenggo decided to meet with the informant named Bunglon and they boarded a passing vegetables truck. By morning Dina and Pilor arrives at Alpha’s workplace turns out Alpha is currently working as a singer. On other hand, Topan and Jenggo’s arrived at Bunglon’s bar and immediately askeed about Antonio’s personality, claiming that he was the one who killed Petrus. However, Topan was confused especially when he remembered when Petrus was killed he mentioned that the assailant was named Suranto so he also asked who Suranto was and what was his relationship with Antonio as Petrus informant and best friend.
Bunglon showed the documents he made here and it was revealed that Petrus first adopted son was Suranto or better known as Antonio, Topan and Jenggo borrow the documents to find out more about Antonio before leaving Bunglon tells them that Antonio is currently hiring to find and kill all The Big 4.
In another place, Alpha finally explained everything to Dina about what and who The Big 4 are and who Petrus really is. After learning that his father was a murderer of course Dina was sad but Alpha disobeyed her because she said she didn’t endure that her adoptive father is called a murderer.
The argument between the two of them got even bother that led to Alpha pointing a gun at Dina out of anger. Suddenly they were shot by a group of mercenaries hired by Antonio to kill The Big 4. Fortunately Dina, Alpha and Pilor were able to hide.
They task Pilor to save the civilian while Alpha and Dina fight the hit men. In the intense battle, Alpha and Dina worked well together until they succeeded in killing all the mercenaries but unfortunately Alo soon came with his Bazooka and she aimed it at Dina and Alpha.
Alo eventually knocked them down, luckily Topan and Jenggo arrived at the right time then they using the boat they had prepared earlier. Unfortunately they found out that Pilor was captured and held hostage by Antonio because of this an argument took place between Topan and Alpha where they blamed each other.
Dina also tried to stop their fight saying that they should not argue in this situation but instead think of a way to solve the problem and save Pilor. Dina encouraged them to work together to finish off Antonio and his crew.
That night they immediately prepared the weapons for the next day’s battle and chose their own weapons. Alpha also made an additional explosive which he named Fart Lucifer 3000. Dina and Topan talked with the two of them alone and Dina told him many things and he also apologized to Topan for accusing him of killing their father.
The day of the attack arrived The Big 4 including Dina went to Villa Paranais which Antonio used as their headquarters where they also imprisoned Pilor. When Antonio saw a car approaching his station he immediately opened fire on the car. It is thought that there are members of The Big 4 inside the car.
However, there was no reaction from the car so his men opened the door and the contents of the car turned out to be Fart Lucifer 3000 the explosive created by Alpha. In an instant many of Antonio’s men were killed in the explosion after Alpha and Dina arrogantly stepped up because they were confident in Jenggo’s sniper skills.
Topan on the other hand, was already behind the enemies and killed them without difficulty after clearing the guards outside Villa Paranais. Alpha was assigned to secure the first floor while Topan and Dina were look for Pilor in second floor. During their search Vinsen suddenly attacked Dina.
Topan tries to help Dina but Antonio is in front of him a fierce and long battle is inevitable Vinsen overwhelms Dina because Vinsen is too strong compared to Dina. He almost killed Dina but because Dina is not just a woman to give up easily.
She still did her best to fight Vinsen even though her leg was almost broken. In the end Dina gets Vinsen’s guns and shoots him in the head. After succeeding in killing Vinsen, She helped Topan who was exhausted from fighting Antonio. Dina shot Antonio with a shotgun but he still did not kill because he was wearing a bullet proof vest.
On the first floor, Alpha can be seen fighting with Alo and at the same time Jenggo comes to help him but instead of helping Alpha he is beaten more by Alo because of his stupidity. Fortunately, When Alo was about to shoot them with a bazooka, Jenggo immediately threw the gun he was carrying and the bazooka that Alo was holding exploded.
The fight did not end here, Antonio managed to save himself and tried to threaten Topan that he would kill Pilor. Apparently Topan has a secret weapon where he annoys Antonio by calling him by his real name Suranto because of this Antonio is no longer comfortable being called by his real name and told him to stop calling him of Suranto.
He was so annoyed that he didn’t realized that Pilor was about to attack him. Antonio was killed by the dagger that Topan threw at him after all the chaos was over. Dina invited Topan to talk. She had earlier called the central police she asked all the members of The Big 4 to surrender but she promised to release them as soon as possible but instead of surrendering, Topan pulled her closer to him and kissed her.
Dina enjoyed the kiss so much she didn’t realize that her hand were handcuffed then the members of The Big 4 thanked her and said goodbye to her because they were going back into hiding but promised to comeback as soon as possible to be with her who is considered they are now a family.
At the end of the movie it was finally revealed that the mastermind behind all this trouble is none other than Hassan, but Hassan was just ordered by a hit man she called Lady who seems to have a lot of anger towards Petrus and The Big 4.
This is where the movie The Big 4 ends. I hope you like it. Thank you very much.
Main Cast of The Big 4
| Abimana Aryasatya Topan |
| Putri Marino Dina |
| Lutesha Alpha |
| Kristo Immanuel Pilor |
| Arie Kriting Jenggo |
| Budi Ros Petrus |
| Michelle Tahalea Alo |
| Donny Damara Hassan |
| Marthino Lio Suranto/Antonio |
| Kho Micheal Vinsen |
| Adjie N.A Bunglon |
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- When was The Big 4 released?
- December 2022
- How long is The Big 4?
- 2 hours and 21 minutes
- Who stars in The Big 4?
- Abimana Aryasatya (Topan)
- Putri Marino (Dina)
- Lutesha (Alpha)
- Who directed The Big 4?
- Timo Tjahjanto
- What genre is The Big 4?
- action
- comedy
- ccrime
- thriller
- Who wrote The Big 4?
- Johanna Wattimena
- Timo Tjahjanto
- Who was the producer of The Big 4?
- Timo Tjahjanto
- Wicky V. Olindo
- What is The big 4 rated?
- TV-MA
- Who was cinematographer for The Big 4?
- Batara Goempar
- Who was the composer for The Big 4?
- Aghi Narottama
- Bembi Gusti
- Tony Merle
