The Raid

Everyone has bad days from time to time, yes, even if you live in Australia (five bucks if you get that reference). Your car won’t start when you need to be at work early, the AC breaks on the hottest day of the year, or you accidentally switch lives with your evil long lost twin on your wedding day thus throwing your entire future into uncertainty as you try to convince the police that it’s a coincidence you look exactly like the drug kingpin they’ve been hunting for the past two years. The thing about these troublesome scenarios is that we’ve all been there, we can all relate to them, but we should still spare a thought for the people going through more outlandish just-one-of-those-days days, people like the boys in blue facing down endemic political corruption and violent criminals while trapped in quite literally the most disgusting, poorly maintained apartment complex to ever house human beings. Such is the fate of the central cast of The Raid: Redemption, a 2011 action sleeper-hit directed by Gareth Evans. The Raid is most well known for its chaotic, balletic, bone-crunching action, directed and overseen as it was by stuntmen and choreographers who designed every aspect of the film to either incite, support, or showcase the movie’s fast-paced fisticuffs. Pretty much everyone who sees The Raid finds something to be impressed in it, but Nathan hasn’t seen the film before, so it’s time to put that axiom I just made up to the test. Move in!