The Raid - A Review

5 Stars - awesomeness, plain and simple

The Raid, or Indonesians fighting...

The Raid is an Indonesian film about a group of police officers trying to take down a ruthless crime lord by taking on his entire tower block full of criminals. It is awesome.

The plot is simple enough to not get in the way of wall to wall action scenes, which is what the film is, a whole bunch of action scenes, and they are brilliant action scenes, creative fight choreography, brutally detailed and painfully realistic.

Not a minute of this films action is boring and it's all shot well with only a couple of bits of shaky cam and even then it's shaky cam done in a way that emphasises the action not distracts from it.

This will never get old!

In short one of the best action films ever made, don't be put off by the subtitles, go see it.