What ensues over the course of the film is an explosion of bloodletting. The gun battles are more intense than the bank robbery scenes in Hollywood movies, the apartment hallway battles make the scene in \u201cOldboy\u201d look like a Disney film and the cops are as equipped as the U.S. Marines were against the entire Somalian town in \u201cBlack Hawk Down\u201d.<\/p>\n
There are sequences filmed in the movie that place you in a cinematic experience where you actually feel like you are watching real men fight for their lives. It’s nothing poetic with back flips and flexible positions but simply \u201cman VS man\u201d, often equipping with anything in the room to kill their opponent. It places you in the middle of it all, seeing the closest things to actual killings. It simply shows you how it really is: it’s fast, real and intense.![\"fight](\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/raidupload.jpg\" "\\"The")
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This movie is incredible with its knife fights and how effective and swift they are in close quarters. The finish blow is always swiftly at the throat but that doesn\u2019t happen before 2 to 3 lightning touches to the chest or arms to disable an opponent or render them shocked in pain.<\/p>\n
“ Final match between good and bad guys. ”<\/p>\n
The background story is about a SWAT team trying to bring a ruthless and untouchable crime lord to justice. However this film is only focusing on a specific event in that story: THE RAID part, that turns into a brutal and bloody survival game. It’s become a final match or showdown between good and bad guys.<\/p>\n
What really separates this picture from the hordes of martial arts films from the region is its heavy use of Silat, the native martial art of Indonesia. The key thing about Silat is that it involves knives, lots of ’em, and the film’s heroes and villains deploy them with extreme prejudice for almost the entire duration.<\/p>\n
This film is a disciple of the Asian extreme action genre, with over-the-top karate and acrobatics mixed with guns and violence.<\/p>\n
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