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Dork_knight74 (881 KP) rated The Raid 2 (2014) in Movies

Nov 17, 2018 (Updated Nov 17, 2018)  
The Raid 2 (2014)
The Raid 2 (2014)
2014 | Action, Adventure
8
8.2 (35 Ratings)
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Intense
This Indonesian action movie on Netflix is a non-stop martial arts bloodfest. The acting was decent enough and the cinematography was done really well. The premise is simple - a raid on a drug lord's tenement building goes south fast, leaving most of the team dead and the rest simply trying to survive. If you're into gritty action flicks with plenty of gory fight scenes, this one is definitely worth a watch. (Unless you don't like subtitles).
  
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Andy K (10821 KP) Nov 17, 2018

One of the greatest action films ever!
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Kevin Phillipson (10017 KP) rated Triple Threat (2019) in Movies

Jan 17, 2020  
Triple Threat (2019)
Triple Threat (2019)
2019 | Action, Thriller
6
6.4 (5 Ratings)
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Tony jaa (3 more)
Iko uwais
Fight scenes
Scott Adkins
It's ok movie saved by the fight scenes plus u got iko uwais from the raid movies and Tony jaa in it so u know it's gonna be fast and energetic and it's also got Scott Adkins in it too as I'm currently watching him in avengement also from the same director so if u like martial arts movie that's fast and energetic and very acrobatic this is your kinda movie
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Raid 2 (2014) in Movies

Feb 19, 2019 (Updated Jul 29, 2019)  
The Raid 2 (2014)
The Raid 2 (2014)
2014 | Action, Adventure
9
8.2 (35 Ratings)
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Astoundingly violent sequel to The Raid (hope that doesn't constitute a spoiler). Hapless but extremely handy cop Rama is obliged to go undercover in the Malaysian underworld and infiltrate one of the major crime families. The plot is complex and coherent, surprisingly so for a martial arts action movie, but it's all really just a pretext for jaw-droppingly lavish, inventive and brutal fight sequences. Film doesn't shy away from the consequences of violence - at one point the first time I watched this, someone pulled a claw hammer out of their bag and I found myself instinctively cringing down in my seat in anticipation of the crunching gore to come.

Nevertheless, the film is lifted not just by the director's grasp of pacing and camerawork, but by some surprisingly strong performances. I imagine many people will not be able to take the intensity and violence of this film, but that doesn't lessen its achievement. Not the greatest gangster movie ever, nor the greatest martial arts film, but almost certainly the most accomplished fusion of the two genres.
  
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Andy K (10821 KP) Jul 29, 2019

One of the best action films ever made!
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Chocolate (2008) in Movies

Mar 2, 2018 (Updated Mar 2, 2018)  
Chocolate (2008)
Chocolate (2008)
2008 | Action, Thriller
8
8.0 (4 Ratings)
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Mmm, Chocolate
Yet another film about an autistic girl with prodigious martial arts skills forced to beat the living daylights out of dozens of gangland thugs in order to pay for her mother's cancer medicine. But a really good one, by the standards of the kung fu movie genre at least. From the director of Ong-Bak, Prachya Pinkaew, who almost single-handedly seems to have put Thai martial arts movies on the map.

The plot is, as you can probably tell, somewhat eccentric and quite possibly in dubious taste (the final boss battle sees the autistic kickboxing girl facing off against a teenage capoeira expert with Tourette's syndrome), but this just adds to the distinctive flavour of this particular chocolate. Terrific performance, both acting and athletic, from Jeeja Yanin. The fight scenes are stupendously well-choreographed, especially the climax (a vertical fight up and down the side of a building). I don't know which is more surprising: that this movie exists at all, or that it's real and also really lives up to its potential.