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The-Stalingraduates-review — 13 years ago(October 02, 2012 11:33 AM)
i wouldn't say its on par with ip man (i love that film) but i do hear were your coming from. there is obviously a market for this sort of thing and as reviews prove many people want to see more. but for me, the non stop action should have just stopped. just over halfway in i just became bored, once everyone so often brought back in by a few painful punches, kicks or stabs and it would go back to being repetitive. the end fight, although had some damn good choreography, lasted too long, and with the plot i guessed everything that was going to happen, i never really felt surprised. but like i said on my other post, if you liked then thats fine, but i just felt it was lacking. although i will call you out on saying its on par with enter the dragon, thats blasphemous
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Phoenix120647 — 13 years ago(October 07, 2012 06:44 PM)
Simply put, this is just the kind of movie that you don't really watch to think about and have an intellectual conversation about afterward.
"Banal plot with banal characters"
It's not trying to be some groundbreaking achievement in film, or even in the martial arts genre. It's just dumb fun and it knows it. You don't even need subs to understand what's going on. It's nice to watch a movie with such simplicity and no, that's not a comment on the viewer's intelligence.
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The-Stalingraduates-review — 13 years ago(October 13, 2012 05:28 AM)
i think what led to my disliking of it was the hype. there was a lot of it and it didn't live up to it. if i had come at this film cold i might have liked it, but i didn't, and my opinion stands. indeed its non stop but i just wish it did stop.
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KenanP — 13 years ago(October 13, 2012 01:04 PM)
This has been a trend with Asian (generally Korean) movies lately. They're "in", and get get about 2-3 points higher ratings on a 1-10 scale, independent of quality. Reviews are very unreliable.
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norbar — 13 years ago(November 02, 2012 08:44 AM)
It's a genre movie. A movie with not only the best choreography in the last 10 years but with very good direction and shots. Yes the plot is non existant and the characters are 1 dimensional but as a genre excercise this movie does more for action than half of the Oscar bait we get every year. It may not be a smart movie but it is an outstanding movie and a very entertaining one at that. Though it's hard to sound like a movie snob when you talk about it to your friends so I guess yeah, it sucks.
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necrobi — 13 years ago(November 10, 2012 12:12 PM)
when i put this movie on, i really REALLY enjoying it!, then about half way through, i realized every kick and punch had the SAME sound effect, and as soon as i heard it, its all i could hear, and a couple of times, the sound effect was off sync with the punch or kick or whatever it was tied too,then somebody would get there head beat against a table (same sound effect).another guy gets stabbed (same sound effect), up until this sound effect thing, i was loving this movie..every other aspect of it was awesome,and violent and vicious!, but for me, having SO much of the psychical contact tied to what sounded like 1 soundbite , it killed the fantasy for me, i urge people to watch it again, i noticed it when the sergeant was fighting the short guy,
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eliezerfaizal — 13 years ago(December 02, 2012 07:26 PM)
Totally agree with you. Although I find that the fighting scene is OK, but it's almost repetitious with the knee-hit-stomach-combo move. And I can't barely hear the dialogue in this movie (I'm Indonesian, but I don't understand what the actors said to each other).
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taseron — 13 years ago(December 11, 2012 11:27 AM)
I agree. It's a fight choreography and gore fx show reel. The scenes between fight scenes are just fillings so ignore them.
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tcunningha1 — 13 years ago(December 11, 2012 12:10 PM)
I agree, I don't get the rating. I was struggling to keep my eyes open throughout most of the movie.
There's no plot whatsoever. The action is so far over the top that I found myself laughing out loud throughout the movie at things that weren't supposed to be funny. The ridiculous faces and noises during the action scenes, the way a single kick, punch, or stab to the body or a limb drops someone and apparently paralyzes them. Punching someone in the shoulder shouldn't knock them out or render them unable to move. The scene where the swat team and the tenets are are maniacally firing directly at each other with automatic rifles from short distance for minutes at a time and no one is really getting hit. Is everyone firing blanks? Who stands straight up in the line of fire while a swat team is spraying automatic bullets at you? Does no one care if they live or die?
The fight scenes just go on and on and on. Since the protagonist is obviously some kind of superhuman who can beat up 15 people at the same time, blocking every single punch or kick from every direction effortlessly with zero mistakes and perfect timing (at least until he fights the little guy with his brother), where is the suspense? It's like in Hollywood movies when the protagonist(s) has thousands of bullets fired at him for an hour straight by an army of men and miraculously never gets hit. It is boring, there's no suspense, the guy is untouchable, no feeling of danger whatsoever. Him beating everyone up is just a formality.
I thought IMDB hated mindless, ridiculously over the top action movies with no plot? I guess that's true only if they're Hollywood movies. If they're Asian movies, IMDB loves them. I've certainly seen worse movies, but I would give The Raid about a 5.5/10. -
perry_walker_22 — 13 years ago(February 26, 2013 03:36 PM)
I'm quite harsh with ratings but I gave it 8/10
Amazing action, great pacing and I was on the edge of my seat the entire way through.Honestly in comparison to Dredd 3D you can see the quality of The Raid, heck Mark Kermode even made it his best foreign film of 2012!