The Raid (Movie)

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Well, this afternoon I just watched The Raid, an Indonesian movie that I think it was very awesome..

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Synopsis

Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable derelict apartment building which became a safe house for the city's most dangerous murderers, killers and gangsters. The rundown apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the police. It all changes when an elite team is tasked with raiding the building in order to take down the notorious crime lord Tama Riyandi who runs it.
Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, rookie officer Rama and a 20 man SWAT team, led by Sergeant Jaka, arrive at the apartment block under the guidance of Lieutenant Wahyu. Starting from the ground floor and moving up, they slowly and tactfully infiltrate the apartment block until they reach the sixth floor. The team is spotted by a child and runs off to warn Tama.
Tama hears of the presence and announces to the whole block that he will grant sanctuary to those who kill the SWAT team. Sergeant Jaka soon learns that the mission was not sanctioned by the department but only by Lieutenant Wahyu, thus no reinforcements or rescue. After a lengthy battle the team is stranded on the 6th floor in which they are; outnumbered, out of ammunition and being hunted down. The members that survived the ambush are: Sergeant Jaka, Lieutenant Wahyu, Bowo, Dagu and Rama. After narrowly escaping an explosion, the team split into two groups: Jaka with Wahyu and Dagu on the 5th floor and Rama with Bowo finding safety on the 7th floor.
After Rama survives an attack by a machete gang, he is captured by Andi, Tama's right hand man. At the same time, Jaka and his group are found by Mad Dog, Tama's ruthless henchman. Wahyu and Dagu get away as Mad Dog fights and eventually kills Jaka. Andi is revealed to be Rama's estranged brother who chose to leave the family and left no trace of his whereabouts. Andi lets Rama know when it will be safe as he meets up with Mad Dog. Tama learns of the betrayal and lets Mad Dog take care of Andi.
Rama regroups with Wahyu and Dagu and assault the 15th floor where Tama is located. Rama frees Andi from Mad Dog as they engage in a brutal fight. Wahyu and Dagu approach Tama but Wahyu kills Dagu leaving the two men discussing their position in the criminal underworld. Rama and Andi approach the two, and it is revealed that Tama was supposed to kill Wahyu while Wahyu wanted to do the same to Tama. Wahyu kills Tama and tries committing suicide but fails. Andi calls off the attack and helps Rama, Bowo and the arrested Wahyu out of the block.

Here's The Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWlmhMSnVdM

I hope you like it :grin:

Sorry for my bad English :p
 
It looks pretty good actually, I'm not a big fan of the foreign films usually but this looks pretty interesting.
 
Saw the teaser few months ago. Too bad I have to wait few months more to actually see it since it's never getting a theater release here.
There was a limited festival release few days ago, but that was few days ago in the capital.
 
They are expanding the theatres.
http://www.sonyclassics.com/theraid/dates.html

I hope you find the nearest one to see this.

It is a bloody enjoyable movie. I couldn't remember when was the last time cinema audience was cheering and pumped watching a movie. Granted the story and plot seem weak, but the action flick is where it truly shines. Mad Dog is truly one of the best movie villain.
 
If you are living in Washington DC. I'm pretty sure they are playing right now at e-Street cinema & loews georgetown 14
 
I have one chance to go and see it in 3 days as it passes through my city.

People who have seen it, Please tell me it's not Corny like a Steven Seagull movie.
 
I saw this last night and I must say that I was thoroughly impressed. I had heard all of the hype surrounding it and it more than lived up to all of it. It is definitely the best action movie to come along in a long time. I think the best way I can describe the intensity of the action is to compare it to the final fight sequence in Jackie Chan's "Police Story", but a heck of a lot more brutal. The film also succeeds in maintaining an air of desperation during the action, so the characters never feel invincible. I also appreciated that although the action is very high tempo and a lot is happening on screen, it never became difficult to follow, so kudos to the director on that one.
 
:\ I missed the showings here.  It looked like a good silat movie.

The Avengers sucked?  Because I'm going to go see it later today.
 
Ati said:
The Avengers sucked?  Because I'm going to go see it later today.

It depends whether or not you like good movies or not. Action scenes are ok but it being a PG movie somewhat ruined it for myself since there were also a lot of idiot kids that seemed to be at the theatre to laugh at every SINGLE thing. It seems kids today have been programmed to be mindless ****ing twats from watching tv and having the internet readily available.

I heard news feeds talking about how it will make more money from people watching it again but I will never watch it again probably ever, there are probably only a handful of movies I have ever watched more then once though since I see it as mostly pointless to do so.
 
Kevlar said:
Action scenes are ok but it being a PG movie somewhat ruined it for myself since there were also a lot of idiot kids that seemed to be at the theatre to laugh at every SINGLE thing.

Good luck, I heard there's a chance that Expendables 2 is going to be PG-13.  :razz:
 
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