Basement X

Or possibly called The Raid: Redemption.
Saw this yesterday, an Indonesion flick which is apparently the dalring of all film festivals this summer. If you like action and martial arts, this one is HIGHLY recommended. It doesn't have much of a story. 20 cops enter a highrise building which is owned by a crimelord to take him down. That's the premise for some shooting, losing them guns and then go into a brutal martial arts movie. It's been a while since I've seen a contemporary fight movie, but this one is hard, fast and, well, brutal. Also, while the camera is in the middle of the action, the fights are not as in your face as lately is the fad, you can see quite well what's happening.

Also, I'll never diss pencak silat anymore. Although it looks a bit like it's a fusion with muay thai as well.

I almost went to see it but instead sat my butt on the sofa and played Lego Batman 2.

Dude! Why, but why?!

Cause I'm lazy!

You disappoint me. As usual.

I have this! I was going to watch it tonight, t is supposed to be great.

I've heard great things about this as well. I'll watch it sometime soon

It is great, yes.

wolf_2099 wrote:I have this! I was going to watch it tonight, t is supposed to be great.

What'd you think?

When I initially said "I'll watch it sometime soon" it turned out to be 2.5 years later.

I saw this film last week (parenthood sucks) and was amazed by it. True to the reviews, there wasn't much of a plot but the action sequences were fantastic and made up for it.

Someone online described the Raid as a classic video game whereby every time the characters in the film reach another floor, it's like a Boss fight. I'm gonna watch the Raid 2 soon (hopefully it won't take me another 2 years to get to it )

Coincidentally I watched The Raid 2 yesterday. While perfectly entertaining, it doesn't hold a candle to the first one. It has more story, less action and in my mind the action in the first part was better. It is bigger in scope, though. But that's precisely what I didn't really like, I loved the very simpe one-on-one (or one-on-many) fights in narrow hallways in the first movie.

All I can say is... Hammer Train Fight!!!!

Hammer Girl's fight scenes were particularly grisly. I'm not too squeamish but those have fight scenes made me squeal.

It wasn't bad by any means but it wasn't trying to compete with the first film. The entire tone and direction of the 2nd film were different.

I was floored by the first one. It's so incredibly amazing and I loved the sequences for all the reasons you all said. I've heard the second one is definitely tonally different but I still want to see it. I'm hoping it pops up on one of the movie channels I get sometime soon.

It's supposed to be a trilogy, which each movie becoming bigger in scope.

Incidentally, agent Rama and the other awesome dude who was in both movies (different characters, in the first one he was the dude who took on both brothers at once, in the second one he was the fixer who got betrayed) are in the new Star Wars movie. No doubt they'll be performing the most awesome Jedi/Sith fight ever.

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This!

Yeah, I definitely thought the bearded hitman from the 2nd film was the enforcer from the first film but wasn't sure.