#Movies like the raid movie#

No matter how gory it gets, the camera only depicts a certain serenity amidst the maddening chaos. However, they are far too many in number.Īs separate sequences, they are an action fan's dream come true.īeautifully choreographed, they are not fights - no, that is such an ugly word - but graceful, lethal dances of blades and blood and the cinematographer deserves as much credit for that as the stunt director. The much raved about action sequences in the film really are praiseworthy. I sure hope the sequel builds upon the foundations at least.When I first Google-searched The Raid 2, the first thing that popped up was an impressive rating of 8.8/10 on IMDb, which confused me to such an extent that I had to watch the film again - just to make sure that the film they watched and the film that I watched were, indeed, the same. Review of “The Raid – Redemption” is done.

#Movies like the raid movie#

This movie is still a hell of a good time. I suggest you rent it and watch it with a few buddies (or yourself if you want). This movie may lack story and character depth, but it sure as hell is entertaining. So based on my relatively low opinions on this movie I will finally give it a rating. He aminly complained on the lack of character depth/development. “the Welsh director, Gareth Evans, knows there’s a fanboy audience for his formula, in which special effects amp up the mayhem in senseless carnage.” One fairly surprising score was Roger Ebert who gave it a 1/4 stars. Metacritic finally agreed to a movie being good and gave it a 73/100. Rotten Tomatoes gave it an 85% rating and it is certified “Fresh”. Recpetion for “The Raid – Redemption” was overall great. Although he currently resides in Indonesia. This is how fight scenes should be done, take notice Hollywood! Also it is fun to mention that the director is not Indonesian…he is Welsh (and for you nitwits out there who don’t know anything about other nationalities it means he is from Wales, UK). They look great and is not ruined by constant cuts and unnecessary shaky-cam. The martial arts in this movie are called “pencak silat” and is like this movie, of Indonesian origin. The martial art scenes in this movie are probably the best I’ve ever seen! Note that I haven’t seen “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” yet. Not only are the shoot-outs pretty cool, but the martial art scenes…oh god the martial art scenes. This movie got some of the best action scenes in recent years. What this movie lacks in story and character development it makes up for in action. These songs are pretty good, but you forget about them pretty easily. For what they are used for, they work out perfectly. The music…is a big clusterfuck of different types of songs. So the characters are not much to take a look at. Also the majority of the characters in this are basically characters from any FPS-game ever…in other words they are only there to die. Woaw, put down the fucking pitchforks and hear me out! There are only like 3 characters in this entire thing that you actually might give a damn about, yet that does not help them. They had the foundation of the house, but didn’t really build anything upon it. And that is a shame because there is so much potential this movie had when it comes to the story elements. Based on that story stuff it is not much more that happens. The only story things they add is that the majority of the S.W.A.T team gets killed and a few captured/tortured.

And they don’t really build too much upon it. That is essentially the story in a nutshell. The S.W.A.T team is going to try to take this mob boss and his crew down. And not just any old building, oh no! It is a 30 story building that is the base of operations of a mob boss and his bigger than you’d imagine crew.

So this is set in Jakarta, Indonesia and follows a S.W.A.T team that is going to infiltrate a building. I was of course a bit skeptical at first, but then finally decided to give it a go. Around a month back I heard about this movie called “The Raid” and how it brought back the badassery to action movies. The only ones these days are like The “Bourne” trilogy and “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol”, yet they don’t satisfy my need for ultimate badass action. Whatever happened to movies like “Die Hard” and “Terminator 2: Judgement Day”? Action movies these days don’t really have that many good action scenes (Looking at you “A Good Day to Die Hard”!). Action movies have lost their edge lately.