Symbiotic Reviews

Hello, my name is Jericho, and I’m simply a guy who is obsessed with films and music. I’m not a critic in the traditional sense, meaning I have absolutely no credentials in this area beyond my passion for writing and love of the arts. I have a B.A. in English, and have written various short stories as well as a novella that I will hopefully be putting out soon. I started this blog/site simply as an outlet for my opinions, as well as to hopefully create an online community of fellow music and movie obsessives. The standard rating system (1 out of 4 stars for movies, 1 out of 10 for music), may seem somewhat irrelevant since the reviews are essentially opinion-based, but it’s just my way of expressing how I feel about the subject at the current time. I welcome comments, opinions, disagreements, really anything that gets people talking about this stuff. Feel free to message me with bands or movies to check out, or even suggestions about what I should get into. Thanks and enjoy!

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Posted on May 22, 2012 with 2 notes.
Tagged with the raid: redemption, the raid, gareth evans, martial arts, action, Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Ray Sahetapy, Indonesia, Pencak Silat, movie review, film review, .

THE RAID: REDEMPTION
3 stars out of 4
Is it possible for a movie simply to exist as pure visceral experience? For things like plotting, character development, and coherence to mean little to nothing in the service of primal action? Moreover, can something like the new Indonesian martial arts flick The Raid: Redemption really be placed alongside classics of the genre like Die Hard, as so many gushing critics seem to be claiming? Well, first of all, the comparison is misleading. A film like Diehard and its subsequent sequels have a far different aim than The Raid: Redemption. Yes, both are genre action films, and both feature dazzling action set-pieces, but Die Hard (at least the first one) was interested in the idea of the everyman caught up in extraordinary sequences, where whereas Welsh director Gareth Evan’s film is interested primarily in pummeling the audience with a near nonstop flurry of crunching bones, spurting blood, smashed heads, and martial arts choreography.
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THE RAID: REDEMPTION

3 stars out of 4

Is it possible for a movie simply to exist as pure visceral experience? For things like plotting, character development, and coherence to mean little to nothing in the service of primal action? Moreover, can something like the new Indonesian martial arts flick The Raid: Redemption really be placed alongside classics of the genre like Die Hard, as so many gushing critics seem to be claiming? Well, first of all, the comparison is misleading. A film like Diehard and its subsequent sequels have a far different aim than The Raid: Redemption. Yes, both are genre action films, and both feature dazzling action set-pieces, but Die Hard (at least the first one) was interested in the idea of the everyman caught up in extraordinary sequences, where whereas Welsh director Gareth Evan’s film is interested primarily in pummeling the audience with a near nonstop flurry of crunching bones, spurting blood, smashed heads, and martial arts choreography.

READ FULL REVIEW HERE

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