The Raid is an Indonisan film that is about a lone swat team conducting a raid on a run down tenement building, simply bustling with drug traffickers/bad guys/angry folks with automatic weapons, etc. Things go smoothly at first, you know, arresting people while they sleep, working to the top of the building, but the drug dealers are just pulling the SWAT further and further into their den so that they will have to fight their way back out. Think Black Hawk Down, but with drugs and police as opposed to militant civilians and Army Rangers supported by Delta Force.
The movie has made such a huge impression that it has already been picked up by Sony for a US remake and release. I, for one, am hoping they follow through with it. I’m just going to let the below trailer speak for itself. One quick warning, it’s a bit bloody…