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THE RAID: REDEMPTION: Written, directed
and edited by Gareth Evans. Cinematography,
Matt Flannery. Music by Aria Prayogi, Joseph
Trapanese and Fajar Yuskemal. Starring Iko
Uwais, Joe Taslim, Donny Alamsyah, Yayan
Ruhian, Tegar Satrya and Eka ‘Piranha’
Rahmadia. Celluloid Nightmares, Sony
Pictures Classics, 2012. R. 101 minutes.
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othing could be simpler, more
pat and shrink-wrapped, than the
plot of The Raid: Redemption, a
new Indonesian beatdown fl ick by writer/
director Gareth Evans. Like a plain wire
hanger holding up a Dior cocktail dress,
Evans’ screenplay pitches just enough
narrative ballast to support this breakneck
epic of cops and bad guys indulging in an
orgy of wham-bam gunplay and jittery
fi sticuffs (and karate chops, eye gouges,
head butts, pile drivers, evisceration,
vivisection and defenestration).
Which is not to say that the story driving
The Raid — driving it like a greased
bowling ball rolling down Mount Merapi
— is insuffi cient; it does its job, swift and
economical, and then gets the hell out of
the way: Wake up, kiss pregnant wife, hop
in Hummer, enter Jakarta slum’s version
of Cabrini-Green, get systematically
bamboozled, bushwhacked, ambushed,
assholed, gutted, garroted, jacked up,
gunned down and fucked-in-half, all
before our hero — the lone good cop (Iko
Uwais as Rama) — is forced to rescue his
criminal brother (Tegar Satrya as Bowo)
and fi ght every mad-dog, including, well,
Mad Dog (the terrifying Yayan Ruhian)
as well as sociopathic crime lord Jaka (the
even more terrifying Joe Taslim) just to
escape with nothing but his precious life.
The Raid, which suffered at the hands
of an inept marketing campaign upon its
release earlier this year, has been lauded
by many critics as the best action movie in
decades. This, however, is something of a
misnomer. The Raid is not an action movie;
it is a smashmouth masterpiece of urban
guerilla warfare — an utterly unrepentant
ballistic siege on the senses, gritty and
violent and exhilarating, splitting its time
between the Spielbergian chaos of gunplay
and the unreconstructed ballet of brutal
hand-to-hand combat, both of which are as
expertly executed and stunningly rendered
as anything you’ve ever seen.
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously claimed
that there are no second acts in American
life, but can we make an exception for a
foreign S.W.A.T. movie written by a Welsh
director with an intimate knowledge of the
Indonesian martial art of Pencak Silat?
Pencak Silat: Just saying it aloud leaves
bruises. The wild fi ght sequences in The
Raid were choreographed by Evans and
Yayan Ruhian, the same team behind
Evans’ 2009 fi lm Monster, and they are a
miracle to behold, a fl uid complication of
homicidal engagement.
Two noteworthy aspects of The Raid
serve to raise it well above the recent tide of
martial arts movies: The cast is excellent,
especially Uwais, who possesses both
preternatural physical skills and a dramatic
aura of defi ant vulnerability that is totally
compelling; and the cinematography, by
Matt Flannery, is groundbreaking, a kind
of thrilling but not-nauseating handheld
zoom-along that captures from every angle
the breathless fury of martial expertise
without jumping the tracks. Because of
these qualities, The Raid, like Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon, should — all
things being equal — cross over into the
mainstream. It’s that good.
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