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The Raid has been touted as the best action movie of the year (by Empire, with a five star review) and... well, probably, if you define "action" as excluding superheroes or fantasy or SF. In action terms it's very impressive, but it's no Hard Boiled and it's no Die Hard as they compare it. At no point do I really care about anybody. And I know it's a martial arts showcase, but some of the kicking scenes feel very forced, especially to the end, compared to the mix of gun battles, hand-to-hand and other combat earlier one. So do a couple of the plot points, which in a film with so little plot is something of an issue.

Still, better than my last trip to the flicks.

Trailers: Prometheus (the no-dialogue like-the-classic-Alien-trailer one, thankfully for the spoiler-averse) and some other stuff I promptly forgot.