Review of The Raid (2012) by Dukejon — 28 Feb 2023

Heard a lot about this movie and how good it was. It's certainly of interest if you're interested in relentless bone-jarring violence. Plot is paper thin; an elite swat invade a building to takte out a crime boss.

The elite squad all get massacred almost immediately, apart from the protagonist and a few comrades. There's a huge gunfight at the beginning, but they obviously used up all the bullets in Indonesia as beyond that they resort to bladed weapons and bare fists.

The protagonist beats up hundreds of low level henchmen on his own. Of course this being a martial arts film they all patiently wait in line to attack him one at a time. There are some boss battles on the way before we arrive at the bloody finale.

The plot is very reminiscent of a video game and the violence is relentless and gratuitous. It's ok if you're into choreographed fight sequences, but I prefer something like Die Hard which has characters, a story and a little humour, in addition to all the violence.

This movie is just wall to wall fighting.