![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to directing, Patrick Hughes will also co-write the script with James Beaufort. It’s a distinctly original take on the material, which promises to pay great respect to the original film while also bringing a fresh approach and perspective that will set its own course in the action genre,” the producers said in a statement. “ We’re incredibly excited about Patrick’s unique vision for this film. The Raid remake will be set “ in Philadelphia’s drug-infested ‘Badlands’ an elite undercover DEA task force climb a ladder of cartel informants to catch an elusive kingpin.” Michael Bay and XYZ Films will produce with Gareth Evans also on board as an executive producer. The action was non-stop and brutal so it’s clear why Hollywood is so keen to develop their own take on the franchise. team as they infiltrated a high-rise building run by a ruthless drug lord. The Raid was written and directed by Gareth Evans and followed an elite Indonesian S.W.A.T. Deadline has reported that The Raid remake is now moving forward at Netflix with Patrick Hughes ( The Hitman’s Bodyguard) tapped to helm the project. The Raid: Redemption is streaming free on HBO Max.A remake of Gareth Evans’ bone-crushing action classic The Raid has been in development for quite some time. Things like that ground all the flashy stunts in a little bit of human feeling. I have no idea why Gofar is living in this building in the first place, since he seems to inexplicably be the sole healthy person around who isn’t either a violent criminal or drugged out of his mind, but Darmawan generates some real pathos around Gofar’s ordinariness, from his efforts to care for his sick wife to his decision to aid Rama and his squadmates despite the risk it brings. (It also motivates a tense, beautifully staged elevator fight.) The stealth MVP of the movie turns out to be Gofar (Iang Darmawan). Rama and Andi (Donny Alamsyah), the crime lord’s second-in-command, turn out to have a connection that complicates Andi’s loyalties and adds a little bit of a twist to the proceedings. It’s high-concept to the point of comedy, and director Gareth Evans knows it, even if his characters don’t.Īs the film goes on, it doesn’t trim back its excesses, but it starts to balance them with some slight but genuine character development and drama. This is, after all, a movie about a SWAT-like team–unauthorized, as it turns out–fighting its way through a multi-story apartment building populated with criminals under the command of a major crime lord who sits up in his surveillance nest and declares via PA system that tenants who kill the intruders will get to live rent-free. It acknowledges that while the characters are right to approach their situation with a deadly seriousness, it wouldn’t make sense for us to do the same. You always grab the loot! What’s wrong with you? On the surface, the movie is fairly po-faced, with its characters rarely cracking so much as a smile, let alone a joke, but this kind of structural playfulness lightens the mood a little. The biggest incredulous laugh comes when someone rejects the opportunity to pick up a fallen enemy’s weapon. Rama literally has to fight his way through various levels, with the difficulty ramping up as he goes along until he finally faces the Big Boss. This aspect, however, has a kind of winning tongue-in-cheek nature to it, because The Raid wears its video game similarities on its sleeve. Kick! Punch! Shoot! The danger stops feeling real and surprising. The Raid tries to spend slightly too much of its runtime at a fever pitch of non-stop action, and after a certain point, it starts to feel like you’re running lead character Rama (Iko Uwais) through a video game: whatever damage he takes doesn’t really matter in the long run, and you can always keep hitting the buttons over and over again. The minuses only start surfacing once the adrenaline fades. The movement is fluid and easy to follow the stunts are inventive and often varied the injuries result in some convincing, wince-inducing splatter. The film features spectacular action choreography, especially in its fight scenes, and director Gareth Evans (unlike, say, Michael Bay) always has an acute sense of space that lets you see how one character is relating to another. The pluses are obvious, graphic, and plentiful. The Raid–also known as The Raid: Redemption, in a move that will send you to Wikipedia to make sure you’re not accidentally watching a sequel instead–is a no-holds-barred action movie, with all the pluses and minuses of that. ![]()
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