The Raid

  • U/A (INDIA)
  • 2012


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82 %
87 % Certified-fresh
$ 9 Million
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Positive Reviews 103
Negative reviews 10
Average Rating 3.9/5
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4.5
Now to be fair, Evans doesnt intend to create a deep, thought provoking, narrative. Keith & the Movies
3.8
Its all grainy and underlit, with shots framed just tight enough to keep the audience from seeing how little of the set has been dressed. Av Club
2.0
Then everything goes nuts, setting the film on a careening folk horror joyride thats part The Wicker Man and part Hostel. Av Club
4.5
If you can imagine a film that mixes the pace and thrills of John Woos Hard Boiled, the grace of Ong Bak, the harshness of Kill List, and the sometime .. Den Of Geek
4.2
Its painful to watch (eyeballs are not designed to move this fast), but The Raid has powerful implications because the spectacle doesnt glorify the ma .. Indie Wire
3.8
The Raid: Redemption is simply the best action movie of the last decade. We Got This Covered
4.5
The Raid: Redemption is an adrenaline fuelled spectacle of flying fists, whirling kicks and spurting blood that will leave you breathless. We Got This Covered
4.5
Unfortunately, however, Mike Colter isnt expected to be brought back as Luke Cage. We Got This Covered
2.5
The Raid: Redemption definitely delivers everything that international action fans want. Austin Chronicle
3.0
Evanss third film the second shot in his adopted home of Indonesia is ultraviolent action filmmaking on an impressive scale, but it lacks the emotiona .. Time Out
4.5
Once the action starts and it starts very quickly The Raid is relentless, breathtaking in its sheer propulsive majesty. Vulture
1.3
I am dismayed. I have no prejudice against violence when I find it in a well made film. But this film is almost brutally cynical in its approach. Rogerebert
4.0
The Raid: Redemption is a slam bang action fans dream, and one hell of a wild ride filled with ferocity and pure mayhem. IGN
3.0
With all this in The Raids favour, a great time looks guaranteed. Telegraph
3.0
At Cinema Village.As 007 fans complained about when Casino Royale featured a less than nail biting game of Texas Hold em, poker is not the most visual .. Ny Daily News
4.5
Oh hell yes! Chalk this bad boy up as a f***inA. One of the best action films to come along in A LONG TIME. JoBlo
5.0
The elements of the horror genre incorporated into this action film ultimately create delicious tension, and make the actual action moments much more .. Screen Rant
3.8
By the end of the film, you may involuntarily find your hands wandering up to your face, checking for missing teeth and broken cheekbones. The Globe And Mail
3.8
The Raid: Redemption is a more brutal piece of work.No parkour, no jokes. Philly
4.0
Lean, fast moving, and filled with game changing fight sequences that have a brutally beautiful (or beautifully brutal) quality, Gareth Evanss Indones .. Village Voice
3.8
And when all is said and done, The Raid: Redemption, is like many an introductory blast of adrenalin from a fresh new action filmmaker stunning to loo .. Rogers Movie Nation
3.8
A furious offering of bodily trauma from Indonesia, home to some of the greatest cinematic examples of smashed limbs and brazen stunt recklessness, th .. Blu Ray
3.8
Become a fan on Facebook Follow on Twitter Review by Mark Dujsik | March 22, 2012 The premise of The Raid: Redemption is simplicity itself: A squad of .. Mark Reviews Movies
4.4
Unapologetically brutal and unencumbered by much plot, Raid is the years most turbo charged film, an Indonesian martial arts movie that ups the violen .. Usa Today
4.5
I really, really liked it like not just in terms of being an amazing martial artist which he is but also just as an actor in his own right. You Tube
4.0
Someday Everything Will Be Fine is the best album yet from Spider Bags. Pop Matters
4.0
In fact, the only real flaw in the film is that the final battle is slightly overlong (and gets a little repetitive) and features a recovery from a br .. View London
4.2
Its probably safe to say that Gareth Huw Evans is currently the greatest Welsh director of Indonesian action films. Cs Monitor
4.5
The Raid is a skull splinteringly violent, uncompromisingly intense and simply brilliant martial arts action movie in a nightmarish and claustrophobic .. The Guardian
3.5
Eventually its all too much, a blur of fists, blades and snapped bones that run together.Still, its a wild ride. Az Central
4.5
Micro budget it may be, but theres nothing low fi about this jaw dropping martial arts actioner written and directed by Welshman Gareth Evans.Set and .. Smh
4.0
Its simply trying to be ridiculously good at reveling in what it is.For the most part, it succeeds. Mountain X
4.5
Compared with this movie, most recent Hollywood actioners might as well have been edited with a cheese grater. Npr
4.4
The film is a sort of high speed demolition derby except with human actors. It is 100 percent highly concentrated whoop ass, and it is sensational. Star Tribune
4.0
Though hardly original, this taut thriller, written and directed by the Welsh documentary maker Gareth Huw Evans, is something of a tour de force. Guardian
5.0
The action genre has been left too long to lumbering beefcakes like Stallone and Lundgren; melding it with martial arts has given it fresh life here, .. Guardian
4.5
It seems the reason the trend never really caught fire is because a good grindhouse movie is hard to pull off. Guardian
2.5
The fighting seems the same, repeated endlessly and unimaginatively and not different from what scores of such films offer. Without humor or originali .. Reel Talk Reviews
3.1
Action movie junkies have been salivating over its clever combination of high speed martial arts prowess and seedy exploitation vibe, and the film has .. Q Network
4.0
The Raid is spectacularly and almost continuously violent, possibly unprecedentedly so, and will offend or delight viewers sensibilities accordingly. Daily Mail
3.2
The fight scenes in this Indonesia set pressure cooker of an underworld thriller are done in the vintage hand to hand style of highly choreographed ma .. Ew
4.5
The Raid Redemption is an unstoppable wrecking ball of an action film that signals the action genre is alive and well, and anyone in the market for a .. Cinema Crazed
4.5
I dont want to watch this movie every day for a year or anything, but it delivers an invigorating and entirely unpretentious legal high. Salon
4.0
The Raid is short, tough, and offers exactly the kind of pumped up kicks that die hard action fans adore. Flim List
5.0
Its not remotely suggestive just breathlessly visceral.There will be few more thrilling sights this year than watching Iko Uwais domino a bunch of sup .. Empire
3.0
Clever may not be the right word for The Raid: Redemption, but its certainly economical, compact, and potent. Common Sense Media
4.0
100 minutes of nonstop action. Die Hard seems like such a slow paced drama now that Ive seen The Raid. Movies
3.8
The Raid: Redemption review: violent and fun Photo: Akhirwan Nurhaidir, Courtesy Of Sony Pictures Classi Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Lef .. Sf Gate
3.1
Dont get me wrong: I enjoy a good cinematic ass kicking as much as the next person. Slant Magazine
2.0
The action is very well staged but its no substitute for genuine suspense. Express
5.0
Its a very introspective story for all of the characters, and accordingly the pace is fairly slow and the tone is generally quite subdued. Mr Brown Movies
3.1
Besides resembling a terrible attempt at spelling Last Pincake, Pencak Silat to the untrained eye combines the punches, kicks, jabs and krrrrrunches o .. Chicago Tribune
4.0
The Raid is a bone crunching, testosterone pumping freight train of destruction that barely lets you catch your breath once it gets going. Bullz-Eye
3.5
The combination of goofy slapstick humor and thoroughly amusing characters make writer director star Taika Waititis down under tale about growing up a .. Reeling Reviews
3.5
The fanboys (though not many others) will love this niche movie that squarely hits its target. Reeling Reviews
1.5
What comprises the films bare notion of story is no more profound that a couple of gamelike cutscenes probably less profound than those of some games, .. Flickfilosopher
4.5
Featuring fight sequences almost literally from start to finish, The Raid is an action lovers dream, precisely because it pitches the choreography at .. Blogs Indie Wire
2.5
Action fans probably wont care about the thin plotting and characterization, and Evans stages a few genuinely exciting sequences. Las Vegas Weekly
3.8
The Raid: Redemption is not a particularly edgy or daring motion picture, but theres something refreshing about a movie that offers this kind of unapo .. ReelViews
4.8
The Raid Redemption sets new bar for action epics If youre an action movie fan and dont own The Raid: Redemption, I can safely assume its just because .. Lyles Movie Files
4.5
The films painstaking attention to every detail of complex action involved in every frame is truly astonishing. Coles Mithey
4.0
Its exhausting, exhilarating, riveting stuff that fans of high octane filmmaking should not miss. Los Angeles Times
2.5
The hands off vibe is compounded by a first half thats rife with competent yet far from thrilling action sequences, as Evans predictably infuses such .. Reel Film
1.9
I like a good action movie.I really like good fight choreography. Movie Habit
2.5
For all its amped up violence, Raid Redemption offers far too little invigorating kick. Movie Habit
4.5
Its not a film for the squeamish, but it delivers more than just a punch; there is a fine sense of cinema and an engaging emotional element to drive i .. Urban Cine File
0.5
The fighting never gets boring, despite moments of excessive savageness, thanks to creative orchestration and many sequences that are so complexly fre ..
1.5
For many, such trivial or pretentious criticisms will be of little consequence, and Evans film remains a bountiful collage of spectacular fight scenes .. Cine Vue
3.8
People die messy and masterful in The Raid: Redemption, a movie so violently entertaining that it could slide by without a plot but attempts one anywa .. Tamp A Bay
3.8
The action is brutal, bloody and virtually nonstop in this adrenaline packed riff on Assault on Precinct 13. New York Post
3.1
Writer director Gareth Evans absolutely delivers well choreographed fight sequences and creative killings. Red Eye Chicago
4.0
Gareth Evans has delivered quite the action thriller with The Raid. Matts Movie Reviews
3.8
The Raid: Redemption might not be a particularly good movie.But it is insanely awesome. Js Online
4.5
Its an aggressive, adrenaline fueled success in so many ways that it might make you like recent Hollywood action films less than you remembered.They w .. Hollywood Chicago
4.5
...despite its singular bone breaking vision, it still manages to have a satisfying plot and some fantastically well crafted scenes of tension amidst .. Film Companion
4.0
One of the films that has made waves on the film festival circuit over the past few months even before having its United States premiere at the Sundan .. ComingSoon
4.0
The story sounds lightweight, but The Raid scores on so many levels that its impossible to dismiss. Film Comment
4.0
And really, how can you not love a movie that weaponises a fridge.Get your mates together and bear witness to an instant action movie classic. Sky
4.5
Its really only a minor criticism if the worse you can say about an action film is that it sets the bar too high for itself. Sbs
4.0
The Raid is a martial arts movie of such ferocious pace, youll swear youre watching it on the wrong speed.A shaken up energy drink of a movie, once un .. The Shiz Nit
4.0
It might seem to aim low, but Evans directs traffic with such deftness that the film reconfigures itself as a bursting, even beautifully violent piece .. What Culture
4.0
A surreal, gritty, ultra violent treat sure to have kung fu movie fans salivating and high kicking in the aisles. The Skinny
3.0
For all its vigour, The Raid is another film that subscribes to fight choreography reminiscent of a video game aesthetic. Scots Man
3.0
A head spinning, heart pounding, 101 minute fusillade of punching, kicking, stabbing, slashing, cracking, crunching, gouting and spurting. No La
4.5
That said action is vivid and for the most part, unrelenting, is indisputable, but the brain, consistently pummelled as it witnesses bloody orgy after .. The Ooh Tray
4.0
Its all worked out with deadpan humor and hyper kinetic style, equal parts playfulness and terse, economical thrills. Dvd Talk
4.0
The action is so unrelenting that theres no time for character nuances or plot subtleties, but as an exercise in stripped down, pulse pounding genre f .. What So
5.0
It would all be for naught if the entire cast wasnt already masterfully trained to duke it out.Although it would be easy to spotlight only Uwais remar .. Or Lando Weekly
4.0
Youll believe a man can die!.Welsh born, Indonesian based director Gareth Evans has delivered one of the most stirring action films in eons with The R .. Streaming Quickflix
3.5
Instead, The Raid is a simple but fantastic movie for people with simple and fantastically violent tastes. Concrete Play Ground
2.5
While some may euphemistically call The Raid: Redemption an efficient action flick, the underwhelming, bare bones plot catches up with the high veloci .. Ion Cinema
4.0
You will be left slack jawed.Every once in a while, a new filmmaker comes along and turns a genre upside down. M Tv
5.0
And there still museums with pay what you wish admission, if not every day, then on certain days weekly or monthly.You just have to know who offers wh .. New York Time Out
4.5
While its almost never the case that an action movie cant use a little more nuance filmmakers, dont try this at home, on set or in the editing suite T .. Assignment X
4.5
The American title is almost a joke: theres no redemption here, merely survival. Stream On Demand At Home
4.5
I had heard a few whispers about the The Raid prior to seeing it.Phrases like best action film of the year get bandied about as marketing spin but let .. Graffiti With Punctuation
4.2
The action is non stop, start to finish.And, the story is as good as the action. Movie Chambers
4.5
If you enjoy relentless fights and shootouts, imaginative kills and high octane suspense, then you will find this to be one of the best movies of the .. Mac Guff
3.3
It is mildly disappointing that the script here is not as strong, but at least there is less time devoted to cliched characterizations than in the ave .. Movie Martyr
5.0
The film introduced Silat to a wider audience and delivered a satisfying genre action film. Kpbs
4.5
If you look up the word spectacular in the dictionary of martial arts movies I think there will be references from The Raid: Redemption.
3.8
It gets an entertaining element out of the juxtaposition of shabby domesticity with outrageous action, with one escape depending on an explosive insid .. Movie Line
4.5
The Raid is a must see film and reinvigorates the tired action genre that often takes its fans for granted. The Popcorn Junkie
3.5
Whether you can take all this in without blinking is very much down to personal taste. Bangkok Post
4.2
This is the sort of film for which the phrase movie movie was coined and coined as a term of highest praise. Blog Oregonlive
1.5
The fight scenes are shot the way dance should be shot: wide enough so you can usually see where everyones feet are. D Cist
4.4
THE RAID: REDEMPTION Three and a half stars (out of four) Iko Uwais, Ray Sahetapy Rated R for strong violence and language 1 hour 41 minutes Opens Fri .. Host Madison
3.5
The Raid: Redemption is a relentless, bone crunching, stylish piece of *performance art*, if I can call it that, that delivers for the most part, in t .. Shadow And Act
1.5
Despite the real lack of substance when it comes to story or character development, there are no complaints when it comes to the action.
4.5
Winning one liner: Repeating something over and over doesnt mean theyll end up believing you, Kimble: I didnt kill my wife! NME
4.5
If you like martial arts, theres a bone breaking kick around every corner. Moveable Fest
4.0
While not altogether ground breaking, theres enough raw energy, passion and style on show to suggest that a more accomplished film would come. Electric Sheep Magazine
4.5
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4.0
If most martial arts films feel like an over spiced appetizer lacking any complementary flavors, then this movie is more of a complete meal. Ticket Sarasota
4.0
Writer/director Gareth Evans full throttle guns n fisticuffs Indonesian action flickis a hardcore bloke fest. Blogs Crikey
4.5
While light on spirituality, The Raid is probably one of the best pure action films seen in a good decade or so. Hollywood Jesus
1.5
And yet Im saddened that an entire generation doesnt care that the vast majority of editorial content they consume is not the work of journalists but .. Charleston City Paper
4.5
This Indonesian fight film will punch you in the teeth and kick your ass, but youll love every minute of it. Ign
4.5
The climatic fight scene needs to come with a warning: the adrenaline just doesnt end and eventually lingers into dumbfoundedness.



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