Serbuan Maut (Gareth Evans, 2011)

The Raid hits mayhem-level immediately, which is at least decent of the director, as the plot of a SWAT team in Jakarta raiding the tower-block stronghold of a crime lord would not take up the back of a matchbox. It's proficiently choreographed and contains about as much violence as any genre buff could wish for, but a little more characterisation would not have hurt and the end-of-level boss action gets repetitive, since everyone gets bloodier and bloodier but will not respect the laws of biology and actually stay down for once.

5/10