'The Raid' is easily the best action movie in years.
'The Raid' is his 'Moon.'īelieve the hype. Jones just needed one film to land him on the map, 'Moon,' then he got a great mainstream studio gig that landed him ' Source Code.' I predict that Evans is about to do the same with action movies. But if you hate "Peter and The Chicken" action movies, you'll dread this violent beast.Īs I watched 'The Raid' at Sundance, I kept thinking that (then) relatively unknown director Gareth Evans was to Sundance action movies what Duncan Jones was to Sundance science fiction movies. The changing styles of fighting keep this non-stop action flick from getting boring. While martial arts plays a decent role in act two, it becomes the main weapon of act three. In act two, the remaining members of the SWAT team run out of ammo and begin using other weapons, whatever they can find – knives, batons, machetes, axes and refrigerators.
That's how the first third of the movie goes - gunplay at its best. When the raid first gets shot to hell, our heroes use their guns to fight back. (If this premise sounds familiar, that's because it appears identical to the one seen in the trailer for the upcoming Judge Dread reboot, 'Dread.') Let the super-stylized hyper-violent badass action begin.
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Any tenant who fights against the SWAT team is promised free rent for life, so all hell is about to break loose. After clearing the first six floors, The Boss is tipped off to the intrusion, so he pits all of his tenants and henchmen against the SWAT team. Supposedly, our SWAT team has something working in their favor, intel that will finally make seizing that villain possible.Īs expected (and as we want them to), things go awry shortly upon entering the building. Police have tried taking him alive before, but all police who have ever entered the building were never heard from again. The SWAT team's plan is to smash their way into the tower, get to The Boss on the 15th floor, and smash their way back down – but it isn't going to be as easy as it sounds. Sadly, those dirty run-down apartments are the only ones that some poverty-stricken locals can afford. The Boss also raises capital by renting out the apartment units unoccupied by his henchmen and drug mules. This building serves as headquarters for the biggest crime boss and as the laboratory for the meth he manufacturers and distributes throughout the country. The movie opens with a SWAT team in Indonesia prepping for the raid of a 15-story building located in the absolute worst part of the town – an area so bad that the police won't even come within blocks of it. If this cut held an MPAA rating, it would most likely be NC-17 for a few very quick, disturbingly graphic shots of morbid violence. The required cut footage from the R-rated version has been restored. I never saw the R-rated theatrical cut that Sony Pictures Classics released domestically in April 2012, but I'm glad that the original cut from Sundance is what's featured on the Blu-ray. Despite being almost non-stop action, 'The Raid' never loses your attention, it never gets repetitive, and it constantly makes you giggle due to its extreme violence - and, yes, it's exceptionally violent. That's what you're getting with 'The Raid.' While the thought of a highly concentrated action movie may make you fearful of the experience, there's no need to worry. Do you remember that iconic hammer/hallway fight scene in 'Oldboy?' Now, imagine the violence, stylization and jaw-dropping awesomeness of that ferocious scene, only extended for a solid 101 minutes. 'The Raid' – now known as 'The Raid: Redemption' – is a high-octane action/martial arts flick that makes ' Oldboy' look like a kid's movie. Although 'The Raid' had already hit the festival circuit a few months before Sundance (it premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival), it's one title that, when I saw it, I walked away with the pride of being able to say, "I saw it at Sundance." I take pride in having seen ' (500) Days of Summer' and ' Moon' at their Sundance premieres. Each year there are a few movies at Sundance that become exceptionally hyped, causing mainstream angst while film-lovers await distribution.
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