![]() Best Fight Scene: A toss-up between the film's penultimate fight, in which Yuda destroys a dozen-or-so opponents while running across a gauntlet of shipping containers or the one in which he dispatches a roughly equal number of goons on a construction site with some stolen washing. So begins a comparatively low-budget martial arts romp through seedy nightclubs, construction sites and the like - but the fights are brutal and a younger Uwais a pleasure to watch, if pleasure is the right word for watching someone get impaled on a pipe or beaten half to death in an elevator. Instead, he winds up on the wrong side of two Western brothers who spend their time talking in jarringly different accents and trafficking young women into the sex trade. Yuda (Raid star Iko Uwais) comes to Jakarta from the Indonesian sticks with a dream of teaching Silat - the style of fighting made famous by The Raid. ![]() Merantau (Indonesia) What Is It? Raid director Gareth Evans's first (proper) film. Third: a degree of obscurity - multi-million-dollar Western blockbusters need not apply. Second: all the kick-punching has to look organic - minimal wirework and CGI. What were our criteria? First: an emphasis on violence over plot. Well, fret not, lovers of gritty martial arts movies below we have compiled a list of seven more action films to at least partially tide you over until The Raid 3 punches its way through the doors of your local cinema.
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