As an Indonesian, I was really excited when this movie came out, me and my friends were planning to watch the movie together as the trailer was really amazing, oh, did I say that the movie wins the "Golden Trailer Award"?. However it is definitely not worth spending 20 quids on this H̶o̶r̶r̶i̶b̶l̶e̶ ahem, 'movie'. So ladies and gentlemen I present my review on this movie.-STORY/PLOT (OR WHATEVER): I love Indonesia's history, ask me anything regarding Indonesia, and I will answer it in a matter of seconds. However this was my first time hearing about the "Peristiwa 10 November" or is known as "Battle of Surabaya" internationally. So I thought I could learn a thing or two about the war that took place in Surabaya on November, but no, basically first quarter of the movie, we were introduced to a person called Musa, which was a young lad who works as an ordinary mailman and cleans people's shoes as side job. And then we had Yumna, Musa's crush, and Danu whom I forgot what role he had (but he was definitely one of the main characters). Instead of focusing on telling what really happened in detail, the producers of the movie decided to focus more on romance, and this turned out to be really annoying as literally, almost 70% of this movie was romance (they should rename the title to "Romance of Surabaya" hahaha, no I am serious), oh and the romance was not even good. Story was not explained clearly, I was having difficulty coping up with the storyline. What a disaster.-ART/ANIMATION: Okay, the animation or art is actually really good! I really have to give credit to Indonesia for this. Characters designs were really well done. the Environment design was breathtaking, every single sky, bird, tree was absolutely stunning. However, the animation isn't really that amazing if you compared it to let say, Japan animations, Nevertheless, GOOD JOB INDONESIA!.-Audio/Sound: With Maudy Ayunda casting as one of the main characters, what can go wrong?. Moreover, the opening and ending songs were the creations of Maudy, if you don't know who Maudy is, google her, you will thank me later.-Characters: All three main casts had horrendous characters, plain, boring, dull, and inconsistent. -Enjoyment: Except for the art, and sound, this movie is not enjoyable at all. the target audience for this movie was all ages, but as a 19 years old teenager, I certainly did not enjoy the movie at all.-Conclusion: In conclusion, Battle of Surabaya is not anywhere close to perfect, the plot was not clear, the characters are not well thought, they were inconsistent, plain, and dull. Additionally This movie focuses on romance instead of educating people about what really happened at Surabaya, and the romance was not anywhere near good. On the other hand, the art and animation are superbs, furthermore, the audio and sound are also good. But honestly, what a let down.If you seek to learn about what really happened at Surabaya on 1945, do not even bother to check this movie out. I did not learn anything from the movie, even online wikis do better job explaining than this movie (and its FREE!!!). And do not be fooled by the high ratings. I honestly do not understand how this movie managed to get rating above 5.

ill be fair and square when it's come the time for a review1. It's an excellent work in "National" scale but in larger scale it's no so good.2. The animation isn't smooth enough for me, well it doesn't really matter because as we know the animator still lack of experience. but still it's a great work for new team but as i said the animators still need to improve their animating skills 3. is it only me or do everyone feel something wrong with the SFX because it kinda bother me if the SFX have lower quality than the animation. 4. i don't feel any emotion from the dubber Overall it's a great movie in "national" scale but it still need to be perfected. the team still need to improve their skills. yeah that's all from me if you really like an indie and "fresh" animation i recommend you to watch this but if you don't want to disappointed with a "newborn" animation then i recommend you to search animation movie

Well basically i really love to know that it's released. i've been waiting for more than 2 years for this movie. Best animation movie from Indonesia i ever seen yet.It was good, really. start from the storyline, the animation, the character and also how the movie create a new perception toward Indonesian people about their own history.Yap their tag line that this is Indoneasian movie with Hollywod taste is real. Meanwhile some people still think there are something incomplete with the ending. so they thing that the ending wasn't enough. Need more specific ending. but overall i'll say this is Awesome :)

So far this is the best Indonesian animation movie. Great graphic,smooth movement for each scene. I love the story which combine love,friendship and history. This movie still have several minor weakness but i think that's not a big problem. I like the soundtrack which titled "Mengingatmu" (Remember you). The weaknesses of this movie is The dubber of "Yumna" character not really fit with the character. In some scene her voice looks not natural. And then in several scene in cinematography we called it with jumping scene. And In the future if you wanna change the scene from a happy scene into sad and frightening it's better if the scene is changed step by step not suddenly and directly. And the message in this movie is: There is no glory in the war that's absolutely true. Even though you win in the war you still sacrifice many people who die in the war,money to buy the weapons and etc. Overall i give the score 8,5 from 10. I hope and i believe that Indonesia can make movies with high quality from all of movies component (story,music,graphic and etc) like this movie.