Review... I suppose.
Apr. 17th, 2012 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spritechanOh man. Just saw an AMAZING movie by the title of "The Raid: Redemption." It's Indonesian and the subtitles appear a little lazy at times (lack of punctuation and such things as use of the word "Cos" for "'cause"), but the choreography, gore, and martial arts are freakin' fantastic. And believe me, I've seen plenty of foreign action films.
It has basically no story but immediately reminded me of "Quarantine" as it is set in an apartment building. It doesn't need a story - as one critic called it - it's a "brutal ballet". It's just watching bros be awesome at killing each other, in sometimes quite beautiful sequences of martial arts action, with a few parts that make you giggle as the movie remembers not to take itself too seriously. There is SOME story, but it kind of makes it cooler to know only the gist of what's going on, because everything outside this complex means nothing, tbh. It's intense, suspenseful, and totally made my night.
A+, definitely worth my $5.
It has basically no story but immediately reminded me of "Quarantine" as it is set in an apartment building. It doesn't need a story - as one critic called it - it's a "brutal ballet". It's just watching bros be awesome at killing each other, in sometimes quite beautiful sequences of martial arts action, with a few parts that make you giggle as the movie remembers not to take itself too seriously. There is SOME story, but it kind of makes it cooler to know only the gist of what's going on, because everything outside this complex means nothing, tbh. It's intense, suspenseful, and totally made my night.
A+, definitely worth my $5.
