Best Film THE RAID
The Return of the White-Knuckle Ride
Guns, bullets, machetes, and bombs. In the end, it's Indonesian martial artssilatthat makes this action film the exhilarating roller-coaster ride that it is. This is why The Raid is our choice as this year's Best Film.
December 7, 2011
THE low hum of a car going towards death. A gray and dilapidated 15-story apartment building. Twenty police officers in a SWAT team. And one madman, a mafia kingpin known as Tama, who controls all the weaponry and narcotics manufacturing facilities within the decaying building.
This is how Gareth Evans opens the film: Dawn, and it's eerily quiet. Rama (Iko Uwais), a member of the Indonesian SWAT team, is going through the usual morning ritual: pray
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