The Raid: Redemption Reviews



  • The Raid: Redemption
    • Genre : Action
    • Release Date :
    • MPAA Rating : R
    • Duration : 101 minute(s)
    • Production Budget : -
    • Studio : Sony Pictures Classics
    • Official Site : http://theraid-movie.blogspot.com/
    • Reviews Rate
      Go! Watch this movie. You'll regret if not seeing it.

    • Readers Rate
      5 of 5

Movie Reviews

  • ultra-violent action movies don't get much more exciting or inventive than this kick-ass feature from Indonesia
    by David Rooney [Hollywood Reporter ]
  • the scenario is simple but effective - and not as complicated as the film's back story
    by Mark Jenkins [NPR ]
  • the objective is simple, the twists are predictable, and the performances are good but secondary to the fisticuffs
    Review rate : A- by Matt Goldberg [Collider ]
  • the intense and inventive action scenes that are unquestionable brutal while still being highly entertaining
    by Allison Loring [FilmSchoolRejects ]
  • the fighting style is viciously violent and brutally bloody and this film does not shy away from all of the gorey good stuff
    4.5 of 5 by Tim Hannigan [Horror-Movies.ca ]
  • that the viewer is able to guess many of the plot twists and story revelations in advance is beside the point
    by Ernest Hardy [Village Voice ]
  • some action moves so fast as to be a blur of bone breaks
    3.5 of 4 by Scott Bowles [USA Today ]
  • offers a continuous sequence of action with a clear and effective premise
    by Robert Koehler [Variety ]
  • no frills scenario and almost relentless violence
    Review rate : B+ by Eric D. Snider [Film.com ]
  • near the end, the fight choreography grows more impressively complicated, and the camera takes in more of it as the shots stretch out in length
    2.5 of 4 by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune ]
  • it's claustrophobic, tense, ultraviolent - and fun
    by David Lewis [San Francisco Chronicle ]
  • it works superbly
    4.5 of 5 by James Rocchi [MSN Movies ]
  • he makes The Expendables look like 12 Angry Men
    Review rate : B- by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]
  • brilliantly, The Raid logically works its way through fight choreography that begins with automatic weapons and ends with hand to hand combat
    4.5 of 5 by Brad Miska [Bloody Disgusting ]
  • action directors, the gauntlet has been thrown down
    3.5 of 4 by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]

Reader's Reviews

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