MOVIEREVIEW
Unabashed mayhem
The first Indonesian film to go on general release here for decades has a disturbing intensity that borders on sadism
- Published: 24 Aug 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: Life
As hype about the Asean economic link-up grows frenetic _ even though nobody is quite sure what that pipe dream might entail _ let's savour the coughed-up blood, the fevered sweat and the rabid, slaughterhouse smell of a film from a fellow Asean member state.
The violent menage a trois in the Indonesian film The Raid Redemption, with Iko Uwais, on the floor, Yayan Ruhian, in the air, and Donny Alamsyah.
The Raid Redemption is the best-known film to emerge from Indonesia over the past 12 months, and the very first from that island nation to open in Bangkok in several decades, having already elbowed its way into the best-of lists of action-flick devotees in many territories, the US included.
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