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Monday, March 26, 2012

The Raid (Serbuan Maut) a.k.a. The Raid: Redemption

No....I have not seen it, Yet. And...neither do I have any intention of seeing this movie^^
Because....it's not my kind of film. I think it is too viscerally violent for me. 
 I know this is Indonesian movie, the first ever to be released in worldwide release including that of US, Canada, Australia, UK, NZ, and others. Well, it is indeed something to be proud of. 
the so-much hype and buzz going on and circling around this so-called 'the best action movie in decade or in years....' has been lingering on my ears and eyes (via news or online news). Surprising as it may seem, but it is not. The Raid turns out to be what lots of folks around the world have been talking about. It meets what it's been hyped about for. Just take a look at the reviews :....
MTV.com (blog) - ‎8 hours ago‎
by Josh Wigler and Kevin P. Sullivan "The Hunger Games," awesome though it may be, is far from the only action movie in town this weekend. Today also sees the release of Gareth Evans' "The Raid: Redemption," an Indonesian martial arts flick about an ...
CTV.ca - ‎15 hours ago‎
The film speed of 24 frames-per-second barely outruns the relentless pace of pummeling that thumps through the Indonesian martial arts flick "The Raid: Redemption." Hollywood's eye for talent is acute for nothing so much as an action director, ...

Kansas City Star - ‎18 hours ago‎
By MICHAEL PHILLIPS Gamers will be slain, over and over, by the insanely violent multilevel bash "The Raid: Redemption," in which a skeezy 15-story tenement complex serves as the setting for a series of stabbings, slicings and a showcase for the ...
Toronto Sun - ‎21 hours ago‎
By Liz Braun ,QMI Agency After 100 minutes of sitting slack-jawed and twitchy through a screening of The Raid: Redemption, we discovered there's a name for what we saw: silat. The Raid: Redemption is an Indonesian martial arts film about cops and bad ...
Globe and Mail - ‎21 hours ago‎
After too many bloated Hollywood spectacles, the joltingly energetic The Raid: Redemption feels like an action film distilled to its essence. Plot, characterization and dialogue are merely the frame here for the real goods, an immersion into the ...
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - ‎22 hours ago‎
By Stephen Whitty/The Star-Ledger What hard-core pornography is to romantic movies, “The Raid: Redemption” is to cop flicks. There are people, but no real characters. There are grunts, but no real dialogue. There are just body parts, twisted into ...
Los Angeles Times - ‎Mar 22, 2012‎
By Gary Goldstein "The Raid: Redemption" is a slam-bang, knock-your-socks-off action bonanza with some of the most peerlessly shot, performed and choreographed fight sequences you're likely to see on screen. Welsh-born writer-director-editor Gareth ...
New York Times - ‎Mar 22, 2012‎
If it's not obvious from all the bashing, smashing and machete-ing in the frenetically violent “The Raid: Redemption” where the redemptive part kicks in, there's a reason. As it happens, the title of this Indonesian action flick was changed because ...
USA TODAY - ‎Mar 22, 2012‎
By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY Watching the men of The Raid: Redemption (* * * 1/2 stars out of four, R, in select cities Friday) is like watching boys getting hyper in a treehouse: You know the roughhousing will get out of control.
Washington Post - ‎Mar 22, 2012‎
By Michael O'Sullivan What do you get when you send a heavily armed SWAT team into the fortresslike compound of a sadistic drug lord? In the Indonesian action-adventure film "The Raid: Redemption," it's not what you expect. But after the initial, ...


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