yh same here, my brother bought it and we watched it. he enjoyed it, i didn't. in places it was brutal, but overall it didn't feel as overly violent as everyone said it was. i found Warrior King with Tony Jaa more brutal and theres a damn site less blood, plus they at least tried to make a story in Warrior King, in The Raid its pretty much none existant. i liked some of it, the action was quite well done, but i wanted some likable characters, not cardboard cut outs that kick things. if other people liked the film, thats fine, i just think theres a lot of better martial arts films out there.
a creative mess is better than idle tidyness.

I just bought this on bluray last night and watched it for the first time, it was epic.. Im a huge action film buff, im a huge film buff period. It comes down to you as an individual.
are you the type of person who feels you are owed? At all times?
or
are you the type of person who can subjectivly sit back and enjoy something without questioning, dissecting, or ripping apart ANY MOVIE?
This is the problem i have with this website and the general movie going public in general..
Half the people on here can enjoy a movie, knowing exactly that an international action movie such as this will not have the greatest story but will far surpass the action in most Hollywood movies
The other half for some reason has this elitist attitude that this movie and many others are beneath them, they rate the movie low, and they complain on the boards as if their complaints really make that much of a difference to anyone as if suddenly we all will see things the way they do, and thank them for our years of stupidity and ignorance I find this half of people pathetic
and the thing that i find the funniest is 90% of them are either teenagers, or some beep who sits around all day and does nothing but bash good/popular movies simply because others like them, what movies do they like? They never tell you.. prolly for a reason
Some of you seriously need to get a life and pop your head out of your oh so tight beep

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I've been anticipating seeing this movie for months after seeing the trailer and reading the reviews etc. I finally watched it about a week ago, and enjoyed it but was left feeling vaguely disappointed for some reason. I'm guessing it was all the hype, which of course, can't live up to reality most of the time. I wish I could have seen it "cold" so to speak instead.

Dude, they should get you on board as a script writer. I'd really like to see The Raid with Bazookas.

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What's irrelevant is who ^jordantemper says he works with & knows in the film industry.
Sid

To each his own, but I agree to disagree. The plot was simple but the execution was terrific; great level of suspense with the characters given reasonable depth. Add the mind blowing action that embarrasses Hollywood and you've got 7.8.

lmao. good post

alot of critics loved this movie as well. have you lost faith in them too?
Men get Arrested.. Dogs get put down. -Rorschach

Why didn't you put this up in the 'review' section where everyone else would put it?
Why bother making a messageboard post? The review section is there FOR THIS EXACT REASON.

keep watching tv drama.

I haven't seen the film yet although it has been highly recommended by many, many directors/producers that I work with in the Film and Tv industry. The fact that you don't like it is irrelevant, haha.

This is a movie. It's not suppose to have an insanely good plot with a shocking twist ending, or incredible dialogue. It has a 7.8 because of how good of an action film it is. Amazingly choreographed fights, you can't deny that you felt at least a bit of a tingle every time a fight broke out.

Well, the movie has 73/100 from Metascore. I am sure all those critics play video games.
I give this movie a 10 because this movie was just what I wanted to see, a great great action movie. One of the best action movie in the last 10 years.
And btw, I don't play video games.

I think video games are great. Just not the mindless, Michael Bay video games you're probably thinking about when you say ''video game action''.
I gave this movie a 7, by the way.
I'm the grim reaper, lardass, and you're my next customer.

You must not be a video game player.

I said a lot of the viewers, not all of them, are lovers of video game action. Since the movie greatly delivers on this particular type of action these viewers accordingly are giving high rates. Bringing the number up.
Yeah, you keep saying that, but you can't back it up. You're just making beep up because you don't like the movie, and have to come up with some dumb excuse for its high rating.
And using terms like ''video game action'' is pretty pointless. It's the same as saying something has ''movie action''. I still don't know what kind of action you're talking about. It's too broad.
I'm the grim reaper, lardass, and you're my next customer.

You are twisting my words. I will break it down for you.
I said a lot of the viewers, not all of them, are lovers of video game action. Since the movie greatly delivers on this particular type of action these viewers accordingly are giving high rates. Bringing the number up.
Critics can indeed appreciate video game action too. And nowhere have I said that other elements have no part in the fine rating this movie has.
Idiotic however would be to think that the action is merely martial arts related.

My point is that your post is beep idiotic.
The movie is highly rated because it's a movie that only gets watched by lovers of video game action? xD
What about the high ratings from critics? Do they love ''video game action'' as well?
I'm the grim reaper, lardass, and you're my next customer.

There was no video games action before video games. Martial arts did indeed precede video games. What's your point?

Yeah, because there were no martial arts movies before video games. It all makes sense now.
I'm the grim reaper, lardass, and you're my next customer.

Completely agree with you, this was definitely not a "video game action" movie I enjoyed this nearly as much or possibly more than I did Ip Man and that was a great martial arts movie. At least in my opinion

This isn't Video Game action, it's martial arts and dates back to the Bruce Lee and Sonny Chiba days. Calling it Video Game action is just wrong.
The Resident Evil movies, the Underworld movies, pretty much any Paul W.S. Anderson, Len Weisman, or MCG movie classifies as Video Game action. The Matrix has Video Game action too. The Raid is not wire-fu in front of a green screen, it is classic martial arts choreography and stunt work.