That film is obscure, hard-to-find, and purportedly not good.

But, there is a big but (and I cannot lie).

Its more than just a warm-up for what was to come, too.

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Thats all that needs to be said.

Those two words sum upThe Raidbetter than 200 to 250 words ever could.

Again, as was mentioned before: hell yeah.

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team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.

Things go to ludicrously high levels excitement-wise and never come down.

The leap fromThe Raid(already great) toThe Raid 2(even greater) is already so impressive.

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In 1905, a drifter on a dangerous mission to rescue his kidnapped sister tangles with a sinister religious cult on an isolated island.

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Tom Hardy as Walker in Havoc

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Two men exchanging blows in Gareth Edwards' ‘The Raid: Redemption’ (2011).

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