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tcunningha1 — 13 years ago(December 11, 2012 12:10 PM)
I agree, I don't get the rating. I was struggling to keep my eyes open throughout most of the movie.
There's no plot whatsoever. The action is so far over the top that I found myself laughing out loud throughout the movie at things that weren't supposed to be funny. The ridiculous faces and noises during the action scenes, the way a single kick, punch, or stab to the body or a limb drops someone and apparently paralyzes them. Punching someone in the shoulder shouldn't knock them out or render them unable to move. The scene where the swat team and the tenets are are maniacally firing directly at each other with automatic rifles from short distance for minutes at a time and no one is really getting hit. Is everyone firing blanks? Who stands straight up in the line of fire while a swat team is spraying automatic bullets at you? Does no one care if they live or die?
The fight scenes just go on and on and on. Since the protagonist is obviously some kind of superhuman who can beat up 15 people at the same time, blocking every single punch or kick from every direction effortlessly with zero mistakes and perfect timing (at least until he fights the little guy with his brother), where is the suspense? It's like in Hollywood movies when the protagonist(s) has thousands of bullets fired at him for an hour straight by an army of men and miraculously never gets hit. It is boring, there's no suspense, the guy is untouchable, no feeling of danger whatsoever. Him beating everyone up is just a formality.
I thought IMDB hated mindless, ridiculously over the top action movies with no plot? I guess that's true only if they're Hollywood movies. If they're Asian movies, IMDB loves them. I've certainly seen worse movies, but I would give The Raid about a 5.5/10. -
perry_walker_22 — 13 years ago(February 26, 2013 03:36 PM)
I'm quite harsh with ratings but I gave it 8/10
Amazing action, great pacing and I was on the edge of my seat the entire way through.Honestly in comparison to Dredd 3D you can see the quality of The Raid, heck Mark Kermode even made it his best foreign film of 2012! -
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richnieh — 12 years ago(May 30, 2013 05:45 AM)
I rate this 9 for the actions. I normally rate movies by its genre. If I want to see a touching love story and they give me some wierd killing scene on the street, I am going to rate it low.
The same as action movie. If they want to involve some emotional element in an action movie, it better be minimal or handled really well or it will just ruin the actions.
This movie, with next to zero love story. Some plot that can be ignored with the brotherly love (in fact, it does not make sense if it is not the part of the story), the rest is just pure action and stick to the plan. I think it is handled quite well.
Obviously, I think the director not capable or not willing to handle a strong plot where some action director like to add a mixed element in an action movie, he simply abandoned that part of movie. I think he made a correct choice. If you are not good at something, just don't do it, especially it is for a movie. -
jgloe — 12 years ago(June 08, 2013 10:09 PM)
Can't say I disagree. That's exactly what I thought after watching it: "That was basically a video game moviebut an awesome video game movie."
Yeah, the plot and characters were thin. I didn't really care to see what happened next or if the characters lived or died, but it was just so much fun and so exciting. At least they knew what they wanted to make and didn't try to force emotion or poignancy like some of these movies try to do. It was a nice little trim action flick that flew by and was entertaining throughout.
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Platipus — 12 years ago(November 10, 2013 09:23 AM)
How can you lose faith in something that has remained unchanged? Maybe you're just a disillusioned hipster?
IMDb ratings have always and will always be user driven, it's nothing more than an average of how most people feel. Just because the majority of the opinions don't coincide with your idiotic generalizations doesn't mean the system is broken.
