Posted: 8/24/2012 12:17:02 PM EDT
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About to sit down and watch it for the fourth time this week. It is such an awesome movie.
That is all. 
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Watched it the other day. Pretty good. I hope the American remake is good. I was thinking the same thing. ––––-Hollyweird version: Will Smith will lead a group of urban street-wise multi-cultural police to arrest a a Tea Party white supremacist hiding out in a Texas compound. |
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Watched it the other day. Pretty good. I hope the American remake is good. Isn't this the new Judge Dredd? Got this from Wikipedia  : they slowly and tactfully infiltrate the apartment block "Excuse me, sir and ma'am, dreadfully sorry to cover you with my suppressed carbine. Would you kindly allow us to secure you with these cuffs and ties? Thank you ever so much."
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Reviews:
Reviews have been by majority, positive; based on 104 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 83% fresh rating, and an average score of 7.4/10. The website reported the critical consensus as "No frills and all thrills," and lauded the film as "inventive action film expertly paced and edited for maximum entertainment." Conversely, Roger Ebert gave the film a single star out of four, criticizing the lack of character depth, and noting that "the Welsh director, Gareth Evans, knows there's a fanboy audience for his formula, in which special effects amp up the mayhem in senseless carnage". Film Comment praised the film for its devotion to showing over telling, affirming that the film is not a guilty pleasure action flick but a cinematic experience.
US Remake: A few months after Sony acquired the film's North American distribution rights, it was announced by The Hollywood Reporter that its subsidiary company, Screen Gems, is in negotiations to produce a Hollywood remake. The deal was sealed on November 2011 with Writer-director Gareth Evans will serve as an executive producer on the remake. XYZ Films, executive producers on the original Indonesian version, will be serving as producers on the English version. Screen Gems also wants to get the same choreographers from The Raid involved with the remake.
Sequel: While developing The Raid in script form, Evans (director) started to toy around with the idea of creating a link between it and the initial project; Berandal. And it's now confirmed that Berandal will serve as a sequel to The Raid. Evans has also stated his intention to make a trilogy.
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