the raid: redemption

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1899353

the raid's main claim to fame is that after about 10 minutes of exposition, it is about 80 minutes of pure action.  this is harder to pull off than you might think. i have only seen this done in a few other films, one good (bangkok knockout) and all the rest bad.  the raid is unfortunately one of the bad ones.  if you saw the trailer, then you saw most of the good bits.  the action is overly obscured by overuse of my arch nemesis, the shaky cam, presumably so they could hire cheaper stuntpersons.  the plot is tired and obvious and sounds like the kind of thing you might have dreamed up when you were in high school and fighting your way though an entire building of people was a super cool way to spend a lazy saturday afternoon.  characters were just there to do fighting, so do not look for "dimensions" or "development" or anything like that.

the raid gets one plate of "stinky bean".