Event

The Raid: Redemption (2011)

Saturday, August 11, 2012:

New Beverly Midnights presents

THE RAID: REDEMPTION
2011, Indonesia/USA, 101 minutes, 35mm, Sony Pictures Classics
Written and directed by Gareth Evans
Starring Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Donny Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhian, Pierre Gruno, Tegar Setrya, Ray Sahetapy
In Indonesian with English subtitles

Show times:
Sat: midnight (11:59 pm)

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Synopsis from Sony Pictures Classics:

Rama, a member of a special forces team, arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord. The building has become a sanctuary to killers, gangsters and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they cannot be touched by the police. When a spotter blows their cover, Rama and his team must fight their way through every floor and every room not just to complete their mission but to survive their bloody ordeal.

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Reviews:

"Lean, fast-moving, and filled with game-changing fight sequences that have a brutally beautiful (or beautifully brutal) quality, Gareth Evans's Indonesian martial-arts film The Raid: Redemption lives up to its viral hype."
- Ernest Hardy, The Village Voice

"A slam-bang, knock-your-socks-off action bonanza with some of the most peerlessly shot, performed and choreographed fight sequences you're likely to see on screen."
- Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

"As midnight-movie mash-ups go, it's pretty amazing."
- Ty Burr, Boston Globe

"'The Raid' is a witty, pulse-pounding instant midnight classic, an immediate sensation at the Sundance and Toronto festivals that should appeal to cinema buffs, action freaks and a pretty large mainstream audience besides. It offers some of the best Asian martial-arts choreography of recent years and an electric, claustrophobic puzzle-palace atmosphere that'll leave you wrung out and buzzed."
- Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com