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The raid redemption full movie5/20/2023 He has a strong screen presence and charisma but he’s still inexperienced when compared to his seniors. That’s also a good thing because, in the acting department, Uwais as the main star is still pretty much a novice and it shows. This puts things into perspective for me: that actions sometimes speak louder than words and that’s exactly what The Raid is all about. It didn’t try to be philosophical or inspire thinky thoughts. I’m actually relieved that it didn’t try to be witty or clever. I’d imagine the physical script itself would contain more descriptions of how a room should look instead of how characters communicate the screenplay is probably designed to feature as much action as possible. Their palpable chemistry breathes life into the film’s exhilarating action, which will leave you cringing, screaming, gasping and hissing in proxy psychosomatic pain.Įvans’ script is a very lean one. ![]() When I watched the stuntment fight the police, I could see their signature all over the place. Their chemistry is glaringly obvious in the fighting scenes, even the ones where they’re not together. They got the nickname Devil Kid and Mad Dog (the latter also being Ruhian’s character’s name in the film) for their supreme BAMF!-ness on set. Abrams’ Star Trek (2009) do: with plenty of bromance. Uwais and Ruhiyan are like the Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman of fighting choreography and in real life they interact very much the way Kirk and Spock in J.J. Much props to Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhian, then, who are the two in-house fighting choreographers for PT Merantau Films, the production house who made the film – shot on set for the most part in Jakarta, Indonesia. Silat itself is already a very showy martial arts discipline but combine that with great action performers and clever cinematography, nothing can go wrong. But it’s not just the silat moves alone that creates a dynamic picture – it’s the entire design of the fighting scenes, starting from how the actors and stunts moved, to the way Evans and his DoP worked the camera, that made for highly exciting sequences. Using pencak silat, one of Indonesia’s ‘national’ sports, the Welsh-born director Evans bring a new energy to the action genre. It is, as many people have mentioned, thanks to the fighting choreography that it can be as fantastic as it is. Needless to say, I had not wanted to watch The Raid: Redemption, the movie as renamed by Sony Pictures (its American distributor), when it came out.Īfter watching it, though, I understood exactly why the movie was popular and why it was good. ![]() His first film, Merantau, was more up my alley because it was drama with plenty of action… not pure action with nothing else but action. I don’t like violent and bloody movies and I was severely overwhelmed when I first heard about this movie that Evans made. Before you read my review of Gareth Evans’ The Raid, let me reiterate once more – as I have done in my press conference and screening report – that I’m not an action movie fanatic.
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