This summer sees a vast variety of great action/sci-fi blockbusters hitting the screens. But how about something more....human?
The Raid: Redemption is an indonesian Action/Crime flick focusing mainly on the action bit. I mean THAT'S where it's at in the film. The story-line is focused on a rookie member of a SWAT team who's been picked in a 20 man team that's being led to a particular indonesian mafia's lovely abode - a 30 storey building that houses all of every imaginable filth and grime the world of scum has to offer. The team are led into an ambush on the 6th floor and well...here's where the fun begins.
I began to get dizzy with the speed of the martial arts performed in this film. There is one particularly memorable scene where the protagonist deals with a whole horde of these thugs using his bare hands (and whatever debris he comes across). Yea sure, the hero usually wins in these scenarios, but the emotion shown with each punch thrown and landed, both by the protagonist and his assailants is insane! I felt the same pain the guy who fell onto a broken and very sharp door base....neck first mind you...felt. The action mayhem ensuing throughout the film will leave flinching and grabbing your hair and other body parts at the pain dished out.
The story is rather flaccid in the sense that there could have been more to it, but then again, most action films have one straight plot - Find bad guy, kill bad guy and everyone goes home. There are some small twists but nothing major that will leave you going 'I never saw that coming'.
All in all, a great action film for those people who just want to see blood and guts and crazy men on drugs with machetes and rifles.
7/10 in my opinion.
The Raid: Redemption is an indonesian Action/Crime flick focusing mainly on the action bit. I mean THAT'S where it's at in the film. The story-line is focused on a rookie member of a SWAT team who's been picked in a 20 man team that's being led to a particular indonesian mafia's lovely abode - a 30 storey building that houses all of every imaginable filth and grime the world of scum has to offer. The team are led into an ambush on the 6th floor and well...here's where the fun begins.
The story is rather flaccid in the sense that there could have been more to it, but then again, most action films have one straight plot - Find bad guy, kill bad guy and everyone goes home. There are some small twists but nothing major that will leave you going 'I never saw that coming'.
All in all, a great action film for those people who just want to see blood and guts and crazy men on drugs with machetes and rifles.
7/10 in my opinion.
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