Review: ‘The Raid’ kicks down the doors of Sundance

Review: ‘The Raid’ kicks down the doors of Sundance

By Vince Horiuchi
The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jan 23, 2012 04:23PM MDT

Rating: 3 stars
SUNDANCE • Like a shotgun blast to the face, Gareth Evans’ martial arts extravaganza, “The Raid,” explodes on Sundance screens this week with a bone-crunching punch.
A group of Indonesian SWAT officers raid a broken-down building controlled by a drug lord and encounter more than they bargained for. The rattling machine guns and swift kicks to the face overwhelm every scene and hide the razor-thin plot, but Evans demonstrates a keen cinematic eye in how he stages the action. An...

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