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- 2012
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 41 m
- 2012
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 41 m
Summary A Swat team arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord named Tama. The building has never been raided before, never been touched by police. Seen as a no go zone it has since become a sanctuary to killers, gangs, rapists and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they c...
- 2012
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 41 m
- 2012
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 41 m
The Raid: Redemption
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8.1
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Summary A Swat team arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord named Tama. The building has never been raided before, never been touched by police. Seen as a no go zone it has since become a sanctuary to killers, gangs, rapists and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they c...
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
73
84% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
10% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
6% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
73
84% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
10% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
6% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Remember your first time with Hard Boiled? Die Hard? This is how it's done - a clean, hard, constant hit of adrenalin. If it's not the best action movie of the year, we'll eat a fridge.
American action movies are almost entirely defined by cutaways, blaring music cues and grunts. The Raid: Redemption, a hyper-energetic Indonesian martial arts movie, delivers an effective rebuke to that meek norm. Bones break, blood flows and swift, excessively complicated fight choreography puts virtually everything released in North America since "The Bourne Ultimatum" to instant shame.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 407 User Ratings
8.1
86% Positive
350 Ratings
350 Ratings
9% Mixed
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
5% Negative
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 407 User Ratings
8.1
86% Positive
350 Ratings
350 Ratings
9% Mixed
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
5% Negative
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
I had forgotten just how prefect the action scenes were preformed in The Raid Redemption. Its impact on modern action movies like John Wick, Nobody and the others can be felt, both from how the movie lets the action be followed by the viewer and how the slower scenes give both the characters and the viewers a moment to breathe and take in what happened
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An intense and well choreographed action movie that is strong from start to finish. Also pretty brutal and a no nonsense approach. The set up is excellent and wasted no time. A SWAT team with 20 members is on a raid to capture the legendary crime lord Tama who is feared, worshiped and ruthless. He lives in an apartment block guarded with his loyal men and rented rooms for others under his protection. The plan is not to go in guns blazing as it is to risky and will surly backfire. They will silently go in to capture room for room from floor to floor. The further they get without being detected the better their chances get. For the new officer Rama it is his first mayor assignment. Here I stop to avoid spoilers. For the story I am impressed as they do more than needed for an action movie and everything works well. All twists are fully believable, enhance the story and in combination with the fitting characters we get a really enjoyable experience. I have to praise the whole cast. Lets start wit the main actor Iko Uwais as Rama. He is a great protagonist and his struggles make him even more believable aka better. He easily won me over and I want to see more from him. Ray Sahetapy as Tama is frightening good. His introduction scene alone I would use in film school on how to set up a bad guy. It dropped our jars and made him as menacing as scary. Yayan Ruhian as Mad Dog is also one of my favorites. He is always shorter and smaller than his enemies and this could be a miss in other movies. But by god he is a menacing fighter you have to take 100% serious. You never want to get on his bad side. An amazing performance and I want to see more. The rest also deliver. Donny Alamsyah as Andi is more than it seems and works great. Joe Taslim as Jake the leader of the SWAT nails his role and each scene with him is a stregth. Special praise to I think Alfredius Godfred as the machete wielding criminal. His eyes and gaze alone deliver more than others do with words. He is so scary. I see no flaws in the cast and say this is a masterpiece in this regard. I must mention the well choreographed martial arts and action scenes. I only discovered this movie through praise from a YouTube channel which ranked it in the top well choreographed modern martial arts movies. It is fully deserved as the fights are intense, awesome to watch and the poster child for the phrase “You can feel the impact”. A must see for me. Of cause I must also mention that it is brutal and often we gasped during the movie. The sets of the building fully give the derelict feeling and round up the experience. All in all this was a pleasant surprise and I give a 10/10 because it hits all the right spots for action, characters, martial arts and gives a satisfying ending.
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Remember that ultra-violent scene in "Old Boy" when the dude plowed through a subway platform of bad guys and was the only one left standing? Multiply it by four or five and that's The Raid: Redemption.
Taking the genre to a higher level of intensity, the Welsh-born Evans continues what he started in previous Indonesia-set actioner "Merantau," but this picture will seal his cult status.
There's a sliver of a plot to The Raid, but it's really not worth going over -- when the characters pause to talk, which is rare, it does tend to kill the film's momentum.
This mostly no-nonsense, floor-by-floor ass-kicking panorama is admirably humble.
This film is about violence. All violence. Wall-to-wall violence. Against many of those walls, heads are pounded again and again into a pulpy mass. If I estimated the film has 10 minutes of dialogue, that would be generous.
wow what a film, a darkly violent martial arts masterpiece, so many amazing set pieces undoubtedly one of the greatest action films ever made
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The story was interesting, albeit completely unrealistic. The action was really fast paced and provided a Westernized take on Asian martial arts they almost nailed it IMHO, but the fight scenes were a bit too old school with the fights going on forever. The gun violence was so gratuitous that it became numbing very quickly
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8 months ago
The police invade an apartment building filled with criminals trying to take down a Crime Boss. Stylish but amateurishly made action movie. The script is weak and the set pieces are unimaginative. If you like violence, there's plenty of that. But nothing very interesting.
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A skilfully made, in terms of direction, cinematography and editing, film that does do a serviceable job at throwing action on screen but watching endless sprites get annihilated on screen isn't for me. It lacked substance and a sense of character.
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Production Company
Pt. Merantau Films,
Stage 6 Films,
Celluloid Dreams,
XYZ Films
Release Date Mar 23, 2012
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating R
Tagline 1 Ruthless Crime Lord, 20 Elite Cops, 30 Floors of Hell
Awards
Maya Awards
• 1 Win & 10 Nominations
Golden Trailer Awards
• 3 Nominations
Dublin International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations