Let’s just hope Batman’s appearance in “Suicide Squad” unleashes a similar (or even surpassing) epic, heavyweight superhero duel! No wonder then that it’s by far Batman’s best fight scene to date -and Zack Snyder says there will be even more to it in the upcoming director’s cut. The superhero genre would also see another fight sequence in the vein of “The Raid” emerge in Batman’s warehouse fight in the recent “ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”.Īnyone who’s ever wanted to see the Dark Knight’s fighting style in the “Batman: Arkham Asylum” games brought to life on the big screen certainly had their wish granted here, but it’s also impossible to deny that this fight sequence was akin to seeing Batman in “The Raid”. As a bonus, the end fight turns out as a two-on-one duel against an unrelenting, oriental terminator-beast of martial arts, but you can make that side-by-side comparison for yourself. That’s exactly how the finale of “SPL 2” plays out -our two heroes “raiding” the bad guy’s HQ to get to the big boss at the top.

This premise is something that could easily be implemented into both a singular action sequence as well as being the nucleus of an entire film. It’s that simplicity which made the film such a rollercoaster ride for action lovers around the globe and also what lends the film to being such an influence on action directors in its wake. set out to finish what Bruce started and gave it some serious polish. The idea of one or more heroes battling their way through multiple levels of enemies had its seed planted in Bruce Lee’s “ Game of Death”, but Gareth Evans and co. The premise of “The Raid” is simplicity itself – an Indonesian SWAT team invades a tenement house lorded over by one of Jakarta’s major crime bosses and when their cover is blown, they find themselves in a battle for their very own lives against hundreds of criminals, psychos and killers that call the building home. It turned the idea of “raiding” into a great premise: This is something you can also clearly spot in the trailer for the Bollywood martial arts thriller “ Baaghi”, (just released late last month) check out the trailer below if you want further proof.ģ. Remember that poor sap who gets his throat slashed wide open on the jagged edge of the broken doorway? Or the guy Rama uses as a human mattress to survive his dive out of the window? In addition, who can forget the gentleman who gets his head smashed into the wall over and over like a watermelon? Virtually every film influenced by “The Raid” in its fight choreography pulls this trick of characters turning the very world around them into a bludgeoning weapon. Mad Dog pins Jaka to the wall with a powerful kick

Take a look at that clip, and you’ll quickly notice how much “Redeemer” is on par with “The Raid” for dispatching enemies in a manner that would make Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees feel like he’s not trying hard enough! That leads straight into something that plays into this very point -namely, that “The Raid” reintroduced knife fighting into mainstream martial arts cinema (no pun intended!). If that sounds an awful lot like last year’s “ Redeemer”, that’s because Marko Zaror and director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza clearly had “The Raid” at the fore of their minds. It’s rare for any character’s demise, or even any non-lethal punishment they endure to be anything less than shockingly gruesome. In those clips from the film above, you’ll notice that Gareth Evans has specifically designed the film to carry an aura of dread, foreboding and spine-tingling fear straight out of either a haunted house or a zombie movie, things that numerous critics likened the film to.įrom the moment the action kicks into high gear, you’re genuinely worried about what sort of horrible death or bodily mutilation the film is going to assault your eyes with.

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