Very shortly after the police squad enters the building, they are spotted, by sheerest accident, by a boy in Tama's employ, who raises the alarm, and causes Tama to send out a message to the entire building to the effect of, "there are cops, and I want you all to kill them". And it has an irresistible conceptual hook upon which to hang these battles: Rama (Iko Uwais), a supercop, is part of a team led by Jaka (Joe Taslim) and Wahyu (Pierre Gruno) infiltrating a high-rise Jakarta tenement building where druglord Tama Riyada (Ray Sahetapy) runs his empire.
#THE RAID STREAM MOVIE#
No, this movie is about one thing: gun and knife battles.
An action movie, and nothing at all but an action movie: insofar as the film has anything like a "plot" to speak of, it seems awfully ashamed of it, and insofar as it develops its characters, it is mostly to justify specific beats in the action to come. Such it is with The Raid: Redemption, an Indonesian action movie written and directed by a Welshman, Gareth Huw Evans. At all.There are some movies that beautiful and true chiefly in their purity: they are, and they pretend to be, one thing only. Plus, I literally just watched it and don't know the main character's name. I would like to have seen them use the furniture to their advantage. Also some fight scenes in rooms have all the furniture right next to the walls, therefore leaving a massive open space for the fight. Any "twists" that were executed, were predictable and poorly constructed. I don't really want to dive into it for spoiler reasons but if our main character is in a tricky situation, something would always happen to get him out. My problems with the film are with the plot conveniences and predictability. The directing was good overall, not many quick cuts although the camera was particularly shaky during the first half. The bad guy in that scene is like the Indonesian Terminator, he just wouldn't die. I have never seen so much flipping, kicks to the head, jump punches and head smashes to the floor.in my life. INSANE! There is one scene where two good guys are against one bad guy (apologies for the bland description) that goes on for six minutes. The action is pretty relentless, well executed and rapid. "Ah! Ehh! Phwoarrr! Hai! Ohhh!".you get the gist. The residents did not stand a chance! Wham! Bam! Kapow! Swish! Slice! Followed by continuous noises as our characters fights to death. Thankfully though, the film turned around and our main character was battling his way through using only his body and knives. 40 minutes later, still no hand combat scenes.I was growing agitated. Bam! I was ready to sit back and watch a heck load of hand combat unfold. One minute in and our main character is punching, elbowing and kicking a sand bag at 100mph. I know this was released first but I couldn't get it out of my head! We follow a SWAT team who raid an apartment block in order to capture Pa-Pa, but the Pa-Pa clan aren't going to make it easy.(ok fine, no more Dredd references). The Raid is the Indonesian version of Dredd.
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