[Redemption] is a relentless, bloody, brutal action movie, with successive scene after scene of balls-to-the-wall-style choreographed violence.

| Aug 14, 2017

Hollywood is particularly unsuited to producing sensation cinema these days.

| Nov 5, 2013

My only complaint about The Raid is that it ended.

| Aug 28, 2013

The Raid is a film for which the adjective "awesome" might have been invented, but it's so awesomely awesome you might want to teach it some new words.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 17, 2012

The Raid is fun of a kind: the kind liked by the brainless everywhere and by the intelligent in moments of elective brainlessness, such as a drunken Saturday night.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 17, 2012

Guaranteed to be a word-of-mouth hit. Expect to be introducing people to The Raid for years to come.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 17, 2012

The Raid is completely deranged - and completely superb.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 17, 2012

For now, count 'The Raid' alongside the likes of Peter Jackson's 'Bad Taste' or Guillermo del Toro's 'Mimic': a talented young filmmaker flexing his muscles, stating his intent, and promising better things in the future.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2012

Remember your first time with Hard Boiled? Die Hard? This is how it's done - a clean, hard, constant hit of adrenalin.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 14, 2012

The movie gets a little slow when it settles down for some routine dialogue or plot development, but it's never more than a couple minutes before break time is over and it's back to the insane fighting stunts.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 19, 2012

[By] the time it was over, I felt as bruised and battered as its beleaguered hero, almost wishing the publicist had a brought along a stretcher so I could be wheeled out on it instead of walking into the sunlight on my own accord.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 14, 2012

"The Raid: Redemption" is built on shaky and blood-soaked ground, but if towering technique is all you want from an action movie, then yippee-ki-yay.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 13, 2012

Evans doesn't bother much with story or character development, instead making his film a kind of brutal ballet.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 11, 2012

The movie is a gory free-for-all, a horror film dressed up as an action film, and it's as pure a shot of adrenaline as any Tarantino fan could wish for.

| Apr 9, 2012

"The Raid: Redemption" is sheer action ecstasy.

| Original Score: A | Apr 6, 2012

The Raid: Redemption definitely delivers everything that international action fans want. The question I have is whether the laws of supply and demand are adequate tools for evaluating a movie's worth.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 30, 2012

Raw, rough and relentless, it just keeps coming at you.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2012

As midnight-movie mash-ups go, it's pretty amazing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 29, 2012

Already buoyed by festival buzz, it's sure to be received with enthusiasm by genre devotees, and word of mouth has the potential to turn it into a bona fide box office sleeper.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2012

The Raid, about as pure an action film as you're ever likely to see, wants to have its cake and eat it, too. It does.

| Mar 23, 2012