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[[caption-width-right:300:And 100 minutes of PureAwesomeness.]]

->''And don't forget... have fun.''
-->--Tama

Titled originally ''Serbuan Maut'' (''Deadly Assault/Death Raid''), known as ''The Raid: Redemption'' [[MarketBasedTitle in English-speaking countries]], directed by Gareth Evans, and starring martial artist Iko Uwais. This is their second team-up after their first film together, ''Merantau'' (''Wandering'').

The Indonesian film is a hybrid HeroicBloodshed and [[MartialArtsMovie Martial Arts film]] featuring gun action and story themes from HeroicBloodshed, with a healthy dose of hand to hand and weapon based martial arts in the second half of the film. A sequel, The Raid 2: Berandal is in works.

Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable derelict apartment building which became a safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. The rundown apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. On one rainy morning, an elite team is tasked with raiding the building in order to take down the notorious drug lord who runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover, and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building's lights are cut off and all exits are blocked. Stranded on the 6th floor with no way out, the unit must fight their way through the city's worst criminals to survive their mission.

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!!Tropes present in this film include:

* AerithAndBob: Tama's two henchmen, Mad Dog and Andi.
* AxCrazy: Mad Dog.
* AnAxeToGrind: One of the squad members brings a fire axe to break down doors and floors, but it gets used as a weapon pretty quickly.
* AnyoneCanDie: You know the story is going to be like this when most of the SWAT cops are killed in the opening shootout. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, only Lt. Wahyu, Rama, and Bowo survive the raid.]]
* {{Badass}}: Everyone in this film, especially Rama, Jaka and Mad Dog. Apparently, actors that make up the key members of the SWAT team were sent to Indonesian Special Forces boot camp.
** Joe Taslim (Jaka) is an accomplished judoka, having won medals in both national and international competitions.
** Iko Uwais (Rama) and Yayan Ruhian (Mad Dog) are both accomplished silat practitioners. Iko has won awards at national silat competitions and Yayan was once the trainer for Paspampres (Indonesian Presidential Security Forces) and was an instructor at a Silat school. The two of them choreographed the movie.
* BecauseImGoodAtIt: Andi's reason for [[spoiler:staying with the crime syndicate. He thinks it's the only thing he's ever good at.]]
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Andi infiltrated the crime syndicate, but decided that he was good at it and became a real gangster. He still has loyalty to his brother, however]].
* BigBad: Tama, the drug lord that controls the apartment.
** BiggerBad: [[spoiler:The corrupt authorities who ordered the mission and warned Tama.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct: [[spoiler:Andi to Rama. Even after disappearing for a long time, Andi still cares enough for Rama, his younger brother, to betray his boss so he can save Rama.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Tama, Mad Dog and most of their goons are dead, and the corrupt Lieutenant Wahyu has been arrested. Rama has saved both Bowo and Andi. However, Jaka and all but two of his squad are dead and Andi chooses to stay behind and restart the crime syndicate under his command.]]
* BloodKnight: Mad Dog, who gets no pleasure from shooting people, but really enjoys beating them to death with his bare hands. Twice he handicaps himself when he has an advantage to provide his enemies a fighting chance.
* BookEnds: A pistol runs out of bullets near the beginning and end of the film. The consequences are different.
* TheBrute: Mad Dog.
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Andi and Rama. They parted peacefully at the end of the movie, but given the plans for a sequel, it's likely they're headed in this direction.]]
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Wahyu attacks a mook with a chair during the drug lab fight.
* ChekhovsSkill: Rama's martial-arts practice in the opening scene features a flurry of close punches as a finishing move. [[spoiler:Guess what he uses to finish off Mad Dog.]]
* CoDragons: Mad Dog, who doubles as TheBrute, and Andi, who doubles as TheEvilGenius.
* ColdSniper: The two snipers who take out the SWAT's perimeter guard. They even wound one of the guards, and use his screaming to find other SWAT officers to calmly pick them off.
* CombatPragmatist: The SWATTeam and goons believe in this.
* [[spoiler:ContractOnTheHitman: The movie's plot is essentially this; the purpose of the hit on Tama was to kill the lieutenant who had outlived his usefulness by forcing him to try to pull off a seemingly impossible hit.]]
* CoversAlwaysLie: The UK DVD [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/917rCB5kk8L._AA1500_.jpg cover]] modified the original cover/poster adding helicopters and multiple explosions on the outside of the building. First of all, only one explosion happens in the movie and two: no helicopters appear in the film at all. This is really odd because when the movie was first released in theaters internationally, they all used the same original [[http://mondocelluloid.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/The-Raid-Redemption.jpg poster]].
** Additionally, most versions of the cover play up the "20 Elite Cops. 30 Floors of Hell." The truth is that most of the cops are undertrained rookies, nearly all of them die pretty early on, and floors 16 and up aren't especially important to the plot, since the mission is only to get to the 15th floor.
* DayInTheLimelight: The movie is almost all silat fighting, but Dagu, the cop accompanying Lt. Wahyu, gets a few good shots in the drug lab fight to show off some serious Taekwondo, contrasting the rapid blow styles of all the other martial artists with excellent technical form in heavy pivoting strikes that lay waste to just as many mooks as Rama's style.
* DestinationDefenestration: Several times. Once Rama throws ''himself'' (and the leader of the machete gang) out of a window.
* DieHardOnAnX: ''Die Hard'' in a derelict apartment building.
* DoesntLikeGuns: Mad Dog. He explicitly explains this to [[spoiler:Jaka]]: he says it takes away the "rush" that comes with fist-fights.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Defied. The SWAT guys could simply swap clothes with some of their defeated foes and blend in with the random residents and slip away rather than fight through hordes of them, but they never do. Rama openly refuses to do so, saying his police clothes "fit better."
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Lieutenant Wahyu; unfortunately for him, he ran out of bullets.]]
* DropTheHammer: Tama uses a claw hammer to kill a hostage.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Rama starts the film in a montage of prayer, exercise, and saying goodbye to his pregnant wife, establishing him as a likable {{badass}} and [[TheStoic stoic]]. Tama starts the film by shooting a group of hostages in the back of the head. Running out of bullets when moving to shoot the last one, he decides to [[spoiler:pick up a hammer from the drawer to do the deed, rather than the bullets surrounding it.]]
* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Just about everyone in the complex seems to have Silat fighting moves
* EvilGenius: Andi manages Tama's criminal enterprise.
* ExcusePlot: The actual story is pretty good, but it's very simple and pared down to its bare bones in terms of how much screentime is devoted to exposition. And frankly you could work out a very good approximation of the story on your own if you watched the film without subtitles.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The main reason why the score was replaced for the international release and why the American release got the unwieldy and spoiler-heavy subtitle "Redemption".
* EyeScream: One of the police gets shot through the eye.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:The Lieutenant, more or less]]
* FinishingMove: Mad Dog likes to deliver a NeckSnap to finished opponents.
* GunsAreWorthless: Averted; despite the focus (of the movie) on martial arts and knife fighting, guns are still the most lethal weapons around.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Andi]]
* HellHotel: The apartment building is basically a flop house under the protection of a crimelord.
* HeroesFightBarehanded: {{Inverted|Trope}}: Not only do the officers have zero problems using guns, knives and batons, but antagonist [[TheDragon Mad Dog]] puts down his pistol so he can fight Jaka fairly.
* HollywoodSilencer: Averted; the police all put silencers on their guns because it's a stealth mission but the guns are still pretty loud.
* ImprovisedWeapon:
** A small LPG tank put inside a fridge makes a good directional explosive.
** Rama kills one of the Machete Gang with [[spoiler: a broken doorframe]]. [[http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d146/King9999/TheRaidDoorKill_original_zpsd5456a15.gif Now with a GIF for your viewing pleasure!]]
** Andi uses a broken [[spoiler: fluorescent light tube]] against [[spoiler: Mad Dog.]], and Rama finishes him off with it.
** In the meth lab, Lt. Wahyu beats a mook down with a chair and drops a metal locker cabinet on another.
* JitterCam
* JustHitHim: Zigzagged, strikes and throws are both used to effect with neither being automatically better or worse.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:The first scene with Tama.]] Also an EstablishingCharacterMoment
* KnifeNut: Rama favours the special forces T-BAR, and uses it in conjunction with a nightstick and his Silat expertise on a corridor of mooks to gruesome effect. Most of the mooks make use of pig-stickers, but prominent among them are the gang who exclusively use massive machetes.
* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: Mad Dog really believes in this. Abandoning his gun for a fight [[spoiler:(against Jaka)]] is one thing. But against Rama, he [[spoiler:allows him time to unchain, untie and even ''bandage Andi's hands'']] before commencing fisticuffs.
* MacheteMayhem: One criminal has a machete hidden under his dining table. A roving group of thugs is armed exclusively with machetes.
* MadeOfIron: Andi, Rama and Mad Dog. [[spoiler:Andi gets his hand impaled and gets used as a punching bag and Rama fights through countless hordes of criminals, but they're both in fighting shape for the final brawl. Mad Dog goes through one epic fight with the sergeant, yet he's still prime to get double-teamed. He even fights on after getting stabbed in the neck!]]
* MauveShirt: Bowo and Dagu.
* MoreDakka: The start of the film, when both sides are using large numbers of assault rifles. The gun violence gets much more spare as people run out of ammo.
* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:Mad Dog's Finishing Move, performed successfully on Jaka and unsuccessfully on Rama]].
* NewMeat: Most of the SWATTeam are newbies, with the exception of Sergeant Jaka.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight: One good guy. Four machete-armed bad guys. Good guy wins.
** Enforced, oddly. Rama loses his knife and nightstick early in the movie, and doesn't retrieve them immediately because he needs to hide. Later, however, he literally walks on his nightstick as he leaves, but doesn't take a moment to rearm. Nor does anyone else through the rest of the movie.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Mad Dog delivers one to [[spoiler:Andi after his betrayal is revealed]].
* OneManArmy: Rama single-handedly provides most of the body count for his side. There are some scenes when one wonders if he could have done the whole mission by himself.
* PetTheDog: The opening scene of Rama praying and saying goodbye to his pregnant wife establishes him right away as a good guy.
* PopStarComposer: The soundtrack for the English-language release was written by LinkinPark's Mike Shinoda.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Mad Dog is smaller than most of the cast, yet he's Tama's enforcer. He's a highly skilled martial artist and clearly tougher than any of the other characters, even though he's prone to being frequently picked up and thrown around.
** Rama's not the biggest guy either, especially in comparison to the rest of the force, but he singlehandedly provides most of the body count.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Mad Dog is on the receiving end of one at the hands of Rama and Andi. Even after getting stabbed in the throat with a shard of tube lighting and both arms broken, he's still fighting until his throat is finally slashed open.]]
* RatedMForManly
* RedOniBlueOni: [[HotBlooded Jaka]] and [[TheStoic Rama]] respectively. Even established when the former is aggressive towards a man getting medicine to his wife until the latter makes him back off.
** Also with [[spoiler:Andi and Rama. Of the brothers, the former is a reckless criminal and the latter is a by-the-book officer.]]
* RuleOfCool
* SacrificialLion:[[spoiler:Jaka, who dies two thirds of the way through the film at the hands of Mad Dog.]]
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The movie ends with Andi taking over the Tama's crime syndicate, setting the stage for the sequel, ''Berandal'', or as it will be called in English, ''The Raid: Retaliation''.]]
* SergeantRock: Sergeant Jaka.
* ShellShockSilence: Happens when Bowo gets [[spoiler:shot in the ear.]]
* SiblingTeam: [[spoiler:Rama and Andi, taking down Mad Dog together.]]
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill:
** Jaka's signature kill. ''3 point-blank headshot while holding the target's head''.
** When the residents attack the cops in the van, they open up on full-auto and just keep firing. Justified to an extent, as they're trying to disable the van itself, and not just kill the cops.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: During the intro, Rama and Jaka both lead their own squads, and the plot then alternates between said squads when they are separated.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: When Andi first enters Rama's apartment, there is a little girl drawing on his coffee table. Her presence is never explained and she never appears again after that scene.
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:The sergeant gets killed by Mad Dog to convey how tough he is]].
* WorldOfBadass: The hotel is bursting with badass gangsters
* WouldHurtAChild: There are several kids working as spotters for the apartment complex. The lieutenant is perfectly willing to kill them to keep the element of surprise.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs:
** Mad Dog uses a spinning neckbreaker against [[spoiler:Jaka before finishing him off.]]
** The machete gang leader does an alley oop on Rama.
** Rama uses a facebuster variation on one of the machete gang [[spoiler: onto a broken doorframe. Ouch.]]
* WretchedHive: The apartment.
* VillainByDefault: The building residents, with very few exceptions. Most of them are gang members and killers in hiding from police, authorities, or rival syndicates.

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