The Raid

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Don't know the filmmaker involved, but if you are looking for some 3rd world asian ass-kicking violence it appears this movie will deliver. And this trailer definitely earns its red band designation.

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from the youtube description:
Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the rundown apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building's lights are cut and all the exits blocked. Stranded on the 6th floor with no way out, the unit must fight their way through the city's worst to survive their mission. Director Gareth Evans (Merantau) and rising martial arts star Iko Uwais reunite in this adrenaline-fueled action film.
looks sick. someone really really likes old-school john woo films. and that's a good thing. could do without the linkin park soundtrack but will absolutely be watching this.

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Just watched it and liked the hell out of it. Great, intense and downright brutal action scenes and some nice camerawork as well. Also a good enough script to keep things moving along.

I really like movies that know what they are, and are not, and still manage to make something a bit more interesting than the average genre flick. Drive was one such recent example, The Raid is another.

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Missed it in the theater, looking forward to a home viewing when it comes out.
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."

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and on the tails of that relatively good news, we have this shit:
DH wrote:Patrick Hughes To Helm "Raid" Remake

Australian filmmaker Patrick Hughes ("The Expendables 3," "Red Hill") is in negotiations to direct the remake of the Indonesian action film "The Raid" at Screen Gems and XYZ Films.

The original followed an Indonesian S.W.A.T. team tasked with storming a building where a violent gangster and his thugs reign over innocent residents.

One young cop also has a personal mission – to rescue his drug-dealing brother from the chaos inside.

Casting hasn't begun yet, but Chris and Liam Hemsworth have been mentioned as potential choices for what will reportedly be a "hard-hitting" action movie.

Brad Inglesby ("Out of the Furnace") penned the script while the original film's director Gareth Evans will produce.
why? just, why? not even 10 years old we have the (successful, critically acclaimed) original. what does anyone get out of this?

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/film wrote:Director Patrick Hughes Drops Details on ‘The Raid’ Remake

The very second people fell in love with Gareth Evans‘ 2011 Indonesian martial arts film, The Raid, two things became inevitable: a sequel and a remake. That’s just the way the business works. While The Raid 2 is now in theaters (and even better than the original), The Raid remake is still a bit of a mystery.

What we do know is Patrick Hughes, the director of this year’s forthcoming Expendables 3, is at the helm and in a new interview he revealed a bunch of new details. Among them is the fact the remake will follow a special DEA task force. Read his quotes below.

Coming Soon exclusively spoke with Hughes about The Raid remake. First up, he talked about the emotional center of the project:
We have a really, really interesting take on that film. One thing, obviously the original just blew my mind and I was fortunate enough to catch up with Gareth Evans in LA at the premiere of ‘The Raid 2.’ The thing that blew my mind with that film was the aesthetics and the fight sequences but also the simplicity of the premise, and there’s so much you can do with that. So our take on it is really interesting and I feel like if anything what I want to do is elevate the emotional aspect of it, and I think those are my favorite action films of all time when you can balance the action and the emotion, and what he did with his first ‘Raid’ was phenomenal.

He then talked about plot specifics:
Certainly, we’re not there to recreate that film beat for beat, with the set up we’re following a DEA task team, which was implemented by the Bush administration after September 11th when they realized that terrorism and the drug trade were so closely aligned. So they set up a DEA task team that’s six units and they work across borders and sort of act like Navy SEALS. You never read about it, you never hear about it, but they go on these missions. So that’s a really interesting take and a really nice premise and also what’s interesting on this take on it is the clash of cultures and the clash of martial arts, the fighting styles, which is something that’s going to be a lot of fun when we’ve really started pre-vizzing stuff.

That last sentence is important. It suggests they haven’t started doing any pre-visualization, which means things are still very, very early. Hughes likely has to finish The Expendables 3, out August 15, before diving headfirst into the film.

The Raid remake was written by Brad Ingelsby.

i disagree with him that their take sounds "really, really interesting". unless by "interesting" he means "terrible".

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_Marcus_ wrote:All of that crazy foreign language nonsense, me thinks... I mean, Indonesia - is that even a place?!
I know, right?

How quickly did they put out Point of No Return after La Femme Nikita? This kind of remaking of foreign films isn't new, but I wonder how successful it'll be.
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."