A film that turned quite a few heads when it premiered earlier this year at the Toronto International Film Festival, The Raid: Redemption hits theaters in a limited release this Friday, bringing to the big screen the hyperkinetic Indonesian martial arts style known as Silat.
Iko Uwais stars as Rama, part of a special forces team tasked with bringing down a crime lord located on the top floor of a 15-story apartment slum. When he learns that the team has arrived, he puts out a call to every criminal lowlife in the area to take down the police by any means necessary.
The work of writer/director Gareth Evans, The Raid: Redemption is the first part of a planned action trilogy and is already targeted to be the basis of an English-language remake. ComingSoon.net sat down with Evans...
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