The Raid: Redemption

Now I should have realized that this was going to be an excessive, bloody fighting movie when Anne and I were the only girls in line for the movie with out a guy in their group.   What do you get when you take Jack Chan style fighting, an R rating, add in a lot of knives and blood:  The best choreographed fighting movie I've ever seen. 

All I knew prior to seeing the movie that it was about a SWAT team that is trapped inside a mob building.  Little did I know that it was set in Indonesia, had subtitles and is going to be the comeback for martial arts movies.  Not only were the fighting scenes amazing, but the use of timing and camera angles took you through an intense ride that I'm still calming down from.  It took what could have been a killing spree and made it into an art form.  As Anne said, "I'm going to see the sequel."

The director, who spoke after the movie, said he fell in love with Silat which is the martial art form used in the movie.  He wanted to show this fighting style to his friends and for some reason thought the best way would be to create a movie.  (Sometimes a YouTube video just won’t do).  Well he did it justice. 

I will bet any guy who sees this will like it.  I'm glad I did go to see it.  I will admit that I hid my eyes from time to time, for those who know me that is my normal reaction to violent scenes. By the end the movie had my full attention, because you had to see what was happening.  During one of the most intense fighting scenes Anne got up to go to the bathroom, she needed a timeout for a minute.  She came back and said, "the fight is still going on?"  It was like one of my crazy dreams where I'm trying to kill someone who's after me but they just don't die.  But as she said, we're ready for the sequel.