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There's All Kinds Of Bad Ways To Die: The Trailer For The Raid Has A Few To Show You

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (24)

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Do you know why, regardless of how much we enjoy our Kill Bills, our Matrix’s, our Bourne Identity films, American action movies will always be inferior to some of those on the foreign market? Because the actors in movies like The Raid actually know how to fight. It’s not bullet-time, it’s not six weeks of, like, really intensive training regimen, man. It’s not funky camera angles and stuntmen. It’s men like Indonesian actor Iko Uwais, a pencak silat fighter who is, quite frankly, a brutal ballet in motion. He’s unreal. Uwais is the star of The Raid, directed by Gareth Evans, who also directed him in the sublime martial arts actioner Merantau. Here’s the synopsis, via Slashfilm:

The Raid follows a elite SWAT team as they raid a rundown apart­ment, which is ruled by a ruthless drug lord named Tama who uses the location to shelter his junkies, drifters, enforcers and killers. When their cover is blown, Tama puts a bounty on the members of the squad which is echoed over the loudspeaker system across the apartment compound. With no reinforcements coming to their aid, Rama and his men must try to survive and escape this apartment highrise full of killers.

And here’s the trailer and poster:

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Interesting that they mention the music being by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park. The thing about Shinoda is… he’s an immensely talented DJ — he just happens to be in a shitty, derivative band. But I’ll bet he could put together a pretty kickass score.









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Comments

You purposely posted a trailer that "is not available in my region" of a good movie just to spite me didn't you?

Posted by: admin at September 12, 2011 10:39 AM

Yes.

Posted by: TK at September 12, 2011 10:47 AM

The 'region' problem is becoming anoying yeah..
More and more..

Posted by: Magiel at September 12, 2011 10:48 AM

That trailer was simply put...fucking sick.

Posted by: DangadaDang at September 12, 2011 10:49 AM

Well, I tracked it down on the Youtube because I'm industrious like that. I must say that there appears to be a whole lot of shakey cam.

Posted by: admin at September 12, 2011 10:54 AM

Gareth Edwards? As in 'Monsters'?!? *checks IMDB* Oh, no, its Gareth Evans. Dang, got all excited there.

Posted by: Itmustbebunnies at September 12, 2011 10:54 AM

Great trailer.

Mike Shinoda can't rap for shit, so he's well placed in that shitty band.

Posted by: FabMax at September 12, 2011 10:59 AM

I totally agree with you about action movies, they are far better in foreign countries (especially countries which specialize in kung-fu.)

Hard Boiled will always be my favorite.

Posted by: Vick at September 12, 2011 11:38 AM

This is almost the exact same plot for the new Judge Dredd movie.

Posted by: sean at September 12, 2011 11:45 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SjAfIAeGZ4

For those outside the USA. That is an effective trailer, I really want to see that in the cinema, big screens are made for that sort of film.

Posted by: Yastobaal at September 12, 2011 11:51 AM

What's the purpose of entering your birthday when there's no validation? I understand the idea but the execution is terrible.

But yeah, that looked awesome!

Posted by: phase10 at September 12, 2011 11:57 AM

Thanks Yastobaal!


Okay, that looks kind of immense.

Posted by: Nadine at September 12, 2011 12:39 PM

I haven't seen this previous film they worked on together but from the header pick with the Machete, I swear to god I know that actor. Not personally, of course, but what has he been in I'd have seen? Am I thinking of someone else?

Posted by: Nadine at September 12, 2011 12:43 PM

Just saw this screened at TIFF and it fucking. ROCKS. Best flick of the festival for sure.

Posted by: DCChica at September 12, 2011 2:00 PM

I completely forgot that I saw Iko Uwais in Merantau on Netflix Instant. I had to go look it up to remember the plot of the film.

Not that it was bad. It was pretty good.

Even looking at that header pic, and after watching Merantau, he reminds me a lot of Tony Jaa. Although where Uwais seems a bit more fluid (and also seems to combine several styles), Jaa is a bit more brutal. They both tend to keep that cool, calm, collected, look on their face...even when fighting.

Also, I could spot some other fighters in this that were also in Merantau. They like to recycle them I suppose.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at September 12, 2011 2:00 PM

This looks good and all, but I really just want to say thank you for using 'regimen' properly, instead of the oft substituted 'regiment'.

Posted by: The_wakeful at September 12, 2011 2:17 PM

YES!!! That's who the picture reminded me of, I was like 'did Tony Jaa change his face slightly? But...a lot also?' But now I think I need to see this earlier one.

Posted by: Nadine at September 12, 2011 2:19 PM

Your "American action heroes are pussies" makes me think of District 13 and how those guys could really parkour. (Is that a verb?) So maybe they weren't the best actors in the world (although they were OK), but they were kicking ass and taking names in the parkour department.

Posted by: MM at September 12, 2011 3:44 PM

Thank you YouTube.

Posted by: Four Eyes at September 12, 2011 8:47 PM

The other reason for better foreign action is that non-us production fights are hardcore. I remember watching a behind the scenes of one of those shitty wrestler based movies, that was filmed in some southeast Asian country. And the stunt guy wanted the wrestler dude to really step on his face to put it through a cabinet. So what I'm saying is 2/3rds of the guys in that trailer probably have concussions and/or are dead.

Posted by: e at September 12, 2011 9:13 PM

Regarding issues with streaming from outside the US: use firefox with the modify headers plugin. I live in Canada and have no problems. I mean, you won't get hulu, but it's enough of a work-around for embedded videos. And most network stuff (NBC, etc.).

Posted by: this guy at September 12, 2011 10:15 PM

TK, many thanks for bringing this one to my attention. I'll be watching the ever-loving face-shooting staircase-tumbling sheeeeeiiiit out of this as soon as I can get hold of it, and I'm tracking down a copy of Merantau immediately after I finish typing this commend.

Posted by: Dill The Devil at September 13, 2011 3:13 PM

*comment, damn you. *axe-kicks keyboard in half*

Posted by: Dill The Devil at September 13, 2011 3:14 PM

Holy fucking shit, that looks intense.

Posted by: HappyGobo at September 13, 2011 7:42 PM