The fighters in The Raid are all practitioners of pencak silat, an Indonesian martial art that emphasizes-at least in these movies-nasty elbow and knee strikes. And its true legacy is those fast, jarring, brutal fights.
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The most quiet or reflective the movie gets is the scene where Rama, the fresh-faced hero cop played by the Indonesian martial artist Iko Uwais, is trapped with a wounded comrade in an apartment’s crawl space, trying to stay silent and undetected while some maniac stabs the wall with a machete. Instead, all we get is the fight-the frantic, feverish struggle to survive. There is no redemption in The Raid: Redemption. The Raid: Redemption, the Indonesian fight epic that had its American release in 2012, does away with almost everything that you’d expect to see in an action movie: the romantic subplot, the family saved, the hero’s journey to redemption. It’s less narrative arc, more 101-minute fight scene. The cops’ communications are cut off, and they have no way of escaping, so all they can do is shoot and kick and punch their way to the top of this building, taking on wave after wave of attackers. The entire building is populated with criminals who work for that drug lord, so they’re doing their best to kill the cops. There sits a drug lord who wants all of them dead. What it has is a setup: A squad of armored cops has to fight its way from the bottom of a dilapidated apartment tower to the top. The most influential action movie of this decade doesn’t have a plot.
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