Review of Hummingbird (2013) by Ladyviper_23 — 24 Jun 2020
"1 Minutes of Romance, 100 Minutes of Non-Stop Carnage". The Raid is a masterpiece, no doubt about it. It's pure adrenaline. It's strong, brutal, violent, intense, entertaining. No Hollywood action movie can compare to this.
There are massive shooting, fights with bare hands, with knives, with machetes, broken bones, falling bodies. The choreography of the fighting is just perfect. The amount of work that the director, Gareth Evans, puts into the making of this film is simply amazing: every scene was designed perfectly.
He doesn't want to just filming some combat but he gives a sense to everything that happens, and the few connecting scenes are treated as good as the action scenes. The plot is indeed at minimum but coherent.
The Indonesian stunts are incredible. It stars two of the most talented athletes and martial arts fighter out there: Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhian. The soundtrack matchs perfectly with the action. This is new classical action movies.
It's a watershed, there is a "before The Raid" and an "after The Raid". Since the release of the film, Hollywood has tried to adapt and has produced movie inspired by the cinematography and the style of The Raid with some good and some bad results, but there is nothing like this.
Simply a masterpiece. 10/10.
This review of Hummingbird (2013) was written by Ladyviper_23 on 24 Jun 2020.
Hummingbird has generally received positive reviews.
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