CGM Reviews: The Raid 2
The Raid: Redemption was a wonderfully nasty little action movie that came out of nowhere to tickle the shrivelled hearts of fans of blood soaked entertainment in 2011. The instant cult classic was a perfectly structured bit of B-movie bliss. A few minutes of set up, followed by 90 minutes of exquisitely crafted carnage that mixed and mashed all the best elements of vintage John Carpenter, vintage Jackie Chan, Ong Bak, Die Hard, and a few dozen other action classics that clearly played on a loop in Wales-transplant writer/director Gareth Evans’ brain while he created a new genre classic in Indonesia.
