An intense watch-on-the-seat's-edge kind of film which lives up to it's much talked about and hyped trailer. Gareth Evans makes you watch this gritty and brutal action movie, making you feel arrested with the film's plot and its execution.
There are several films which not only grabs your attention from the first scene but also make knots in your stomach by the time movie comes to an end. This sure does sound like an interesting combination and it actually is.
The film is not only recommended for those who crave mindless action movies and would see anything in the name of action, THE RAID offers a different kind of action and would surely entertain those who thought that action genre has gone lukewarm in the recent years.
One has to mention the action choreography when talking of THE RAID and the credit goes to the respective people.
IKO UWAIS is a magnificent person to watch on screen, he's got the right presence and delivers an okay performance but magnificent action sequences choreographed by him. His character is very interestingly drafted and he makes it an engrossing character study.
The visuals were spectacular and the cinematography was good together with the rock music score adding more to the adrenaline rush the film provides. The only thing missing was a strong screenplay which would have added some additional strength to the movie but it goes fine along without it.
I don't actually know the science behind how Gareth Evans shot the film capturing each individual movement of the action sequences with detail and precision, what i know and care about is that it's a solid movie which offers thrills and action that was missing from the cinema for a very long time.
There are several films which not only grabs your attention from the first scene but also make knots in your stomach by the time movie comes to an end. This sure does sound like an interesting combination and it actually is.
The film is not only recommended for those who crave mindless action movies and would see anything in the name of action, THE RAID offers a different kind of action and would surely entertain those who thought that action genre has gone lukewarm in the recent years.
One has to mention the action choreography when talking of THE RAID and the credit goes to the respective people.
IKO UWAIS is a magnificent person to watch on screen, he's got the right presence and delivers an okay performance but magnificent action sequences choreographed by him. His character is very interestingly drafted and he makes it an engrossing character study.
The visuals were spectacular and the cinematography was good together with the rock music score adding more to the adrenaline rush the film provides. The only thing missing was a strong screenplay which would have added some additional strength to the movie but it goes fine along without it.
I don't actually know the science behind how Gareth Evans shot the film capturing each individual movement of the action sequences with detail and precision, what i know and care about is that it's a solid movie which offers thrills and action that was missing from the cinema for a very long time.