Viscerally extreme examples of violence grip The Raid: Redemption from start to finish. Responding to an ongoing conversation about whether all police officers are corrupt, Rama and Jaka both insist-and prove-that there are still righteous cops.Īn innocent bystander agrees to hide Rama and another injured officer, even as Tama’s men threaten him and his wife with death. And they feel the same way about the traitor in their midst, once he’s exposed. Rama and Jaka, I should note, are determined to bring Tama to justice-alive. Rama, in turn, tries (unsuccessfully) to talk Andi into giving up the life of crime he’s been sucked into. He also helps Rama survive, knowing Tama will punish him for it. Andi tries to convince Tama not to kill the policemen. One of Tama’s chief henchmen is Andi-who turns out to be Rama’s long-lost prodigal brother. That promise motivates Rama to survive when things turn ugly. When he leaves on the morning of the raid, he tells her and their unborn son how much he loves them, and he promises to return. Rama is equally devoted to his wife, who’s seven months pregnant. Likewise, Rama goes to great lengths to rescue an officer (named Bowo) who’s had most of his ear blown off. When Wahyu insists that he, Jaka and another officer need to get out while they can, Jaka steadfastly refuses to flee before trying to find anyone else who may still be alive. Rama and Jaka repeatedly demonstrate heroic courage. It also requires surviving the betrayal of a key team member who turns out to have his own agenda for going after Tama.
Among the survivors is rookie-and martial arts expert-Rama who’s determined to accomplish his mission and get as many of the remaining officers out alive as he can.ĭoing so, however, requires surviving the assaults of wave after wave of gun-, knife- and scimitar-wielding assailants. In short order, Tama’s ruthless minions mow down most of the SWAT team.
The boy is the first of the film’s myriad casualties. Wahyu’s silencing bullet slices through the neck of a young resident a nanosecond after he sounds the alarm. Success depends on stealthily infiltrating Tama’s 30-story tower. (Just like most moviegoers who see this film won’t fully comprehend how vicious and bloody and incessant its violence is going to be.) But none of them, it seems, fully comprehend just how deadly their assignment will be. Wahyu, make no bones about the fact that besieging the brutal crime kingpin known as Tama is decidedly dangerous business.
Subtitled import from Indonesia The Raid: Redemption can be summed up in a single English sentence: A heavily armed SWAT team of 21 police officers tries to take out an even more heavily armed drug lord in his gritty, grimy, fortress-like apartment building.
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