The Raid (2011)
(The Raid: Redemption)
Country: INDO/US/FR
Technical: col 101m
Director: Gareth Huw Evans
Cast: Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Donny Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhian
Synopsis:
An elite cop and his superior officer lead eighteen rookies on a mission to take out a top drug lord, but each of them has motives of his own.
Review:
Breathlessly kinetic thriller, with a high body count, reminiscent of Assault on Precinct 13 in its low-resourced ingenuity, and District 13 in its setting. The fight scenes are choreographed with unbelievable skill and inventiveness, and no doubt took months of training and rehearsal, since they are largely done without edits. This privileging of cinematography and mise en scène over MTV aesthetics is what makes the film particularly fresh. Whether you can stomach the incessant violence or not will depend largely on your familiarity with Hong Kong cinema and its imitators.
(The Raid: Redemption)
Country: INDO/US/FR
Technical: col 101m
Director: Gareth Huw Evans
Cast: Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Donny Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhian
Synopsis:
An elite cop and his superior officer lead eighteen rookies on a mission to take out a top drug lord, but each of them has motives of his own.
Review:
Breathlessly kinetic thriller, with a high body count, reminiscent of Assault on Precinct 13 in its low-resourced ingenuity, and District 13 in its setting. The fight scenes are choreographed with unbelievable skill and inventiveness, and no doubt took months of training and rehearsal, since they are largely done without edits. This privileging of cinematography and mise en scène over MTV aesthetics is what makes the film particularly fresh. Whether you can stomach the incessant violence or not will depend largely on your familiarity with Hong Kong cinema and its imitators.
(The Raid: Redemption)
Country: INDO/US/FR
Technical: col 101m
Director: Gareth Huw Evans
Cast: Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Donny Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhian
Synopsis:
An elite cop and his superior officer lead eighteen rookies on a mission to take out a top drug lord, but each of them has motives of his own.
Review:
Breathlessly kinetic thriller, with a high body count, reminiscent of Assault on Precinct 13 in its low-resourced ingenuity, and District 13 in its setting. The fight scenes are choreographed with unbelievable skill and inventiveness, and no doubt took months of training and rehearsal, since they are largely done without edits. This privileging of cinematography and mise en scène over MTV aesthetics is what makes the film particularly fresh. Whether you can stomach the incessant violence or not will depend largely on your familiarity with Hong Kong cinema and its imitators.