![]() The music composed by Aria Prayogi and Fajar Yuskemal was like a combination between Hans Zimmer's Joker theme and Rage Against The Machine. The Raid was Flashpoint with larger actions and handled professionally from the music, cinematography, and even the visual effect. I remember when one of Merantau review said Merantau was Ong Bak when handled professionally. What we know, we were flooded by f*cking awesome action movies from infiltration scene, massacre scene, and of course, martial art scenes when the characters have run out of bullets. But d*mn! Even with the weak dialog and cliché plot, Gareth executed it well so we, the audience, didn't have time to analyze this or that. The plot was made only to bridge between one action scene to other action scene. It is useless to review this movie from the plot because there wasn't any significant plot. The problem with Merantau was Gareth was trying to bring audience to understand the culture of Silat first because showing the full action.You can said, Merantau was like Yamakasi doing for parkour while The Raid was the B-13 of silat. I wouldn't say a thing about Ong Bak because in my opinion, Merantau was more superior than Ong Bak. In Evans' latest, THE RAID, you won't need those one hour and fifteen minutes because he already made the audience gasps in the first fifteen minutes. The fight between Donnie Yen and Collin Chou, inspired by MMA especially BJJ was so well choreographed and made audience hold their breath and asking "are this sh*t a real thing?". The problem with Donnie Yen's Flashpoint was you need to wait about one hour and fifteen minutes to get the action really start but when it started, it was really worth to wait. Now, when I speak an action movie that speak for the action, I will choose an Indonesia movie, 'THE RAID', choreographed by Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhiyan and starred by them. Before Flashpoint, I'll choose a Thailand movie, Ong Bak which launched Tony Jaa career internationally. However, when speaking only 'action', I used to choose a Hongkong movie, Flashpoint, starred by Donnie Yen. Somewhere among the top list, there was also The Dark Knight for the same reason. At all.My number one list action movie is The Matrix because it balanced the depth of the story with the action. Plus, I literally just watched it and don't know the main character's name. I would like to have seen them use the furniture to their advantage. Also some fight scenes in rooms have all the furniture right next to the walls, therefore leaving a massive open space for the fight. Any "twists" that were executed, were predictable and poorly constructed. I don't really want to dive into it for spoiler reasons but if our main character is in a tricky situation, something would always happen to get him out. My problems with the film are with the plot conveniences and predictability. The directing was good overall, not many quick cuts although the camera was particularly shaky during the first half. The bad guy in that scene is like the Indonesian Terminator, he just wouldn't die. I have never seen so much flipping, kicks to the head, jump punches and head smashes to the floor.in my life. ![]() INSANE! There is one scene where two good guys are against one bad guy (apologies for the bland description) that goes on for six minutes. The action is pretty relentless, well executed and rapid. "Ah! Ehh! Phwoarrr! Hai! Ohhh!".you get the gist. The residents did not stand a chance! Wham! Bam! Kapow! Swish! Slice! Followed by continuous noises as our characters fights to death. ![]() Thankfully though, the film turned around and our main character was battling his way through using only his body and knives. 40 minutes later, still no hand combat scenes.I was growing agitated. Bam! I was ready to sit back and watch a heck load of hand combat unfold. One minute in and our main character is punching, elbowing and kicking a sand bag at 100mph. I know this was released first but I couldn't get it out of my head! We follow a SWAT team who raid an apartment block in order to capture Pa-Pa, but the Pa-Pa clan aren't going to make it easy.(ok fine, no more Dredd references). ![]() The Raid is the Indonesian version of Dredd. ![]()
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