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The Raid: Redemption (Serbuan maut)

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The Raid: Redemption (Serbuan maut)
  • Genre: Action/Adventure
  • Release Date: 2012-03-23 NY/LA
  • Running Time: 101 min.
  • Director: Gareth Evans
  • Cast: Iko Uwais, Doni Alamsyah, Joe Taslim, Yayan Ruhian, Ray Sahetapy
  • Producer: Ario Sagantoro
  • Writer: Gareth Evans
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
  • Official Site: The Raid: Redemption (Serbuan maut) Official Site

Lean, fast-moving, and filled with game-changing fight sequences that have a brutally beautiful (or beautifully brutal) quality, Gareth Evans's Indonesian martial-arts film The Raid: Redemption lives up to its viral hype. Rama (Iko Uwais) is a rookie member of an elite special-forces team that has been sent to rout a decrepit, 15-story high-rise of its vicious crime lord and the small army of socio- and psychopaths who do his bidding. Nothing is quite as it seems, of course, as the covert mission turns out to have murky political goals, and Rama's connection to one of the crime lord's major henchmen threatens to derail the whole undertaking. That the viewer is able to guess many of the plot twists and story revelations in advance is beside the point. Evans slavishly adheres to genre template even as he tweaks it. So we are introduced to Rama as he kneels on a prayer mat, immediately cuing us that he is a truly wholesome hero. Before he embarks on his deadly task, he kisses the round belly of his beautiful pregnant wife. But Evans doesn't play these moments for the cheap ironic laughter of American films--straightforward sincerity is part of what makes the whole thing work, not to mention the sharply choreographed fight scenes that leave the viewer both breathless and squirming.

Ernest Hardy
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