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Rama regroups with Dagu and Wahyu, and they head for Tama on the 15th floor, fighting through a narcotics lab along the way. Tama, having learned of Andi's treachery through his surveillance cameras, attacks and incapacitates Andi. Mad Dog then meets up with Andi to report back to Tama. Mad Dog challenges Jaka to hand-to-hand combat he ultimately gains the upper hand and kills Jaka, by breaking his neck. Wahyu runs off, and Jaka instructs Dagu to protect him. Mad Dog discovers Jaka and his group on the fourth floor. Rama parts ways with his brother to search for his surviving colleagues. Rama refuses to leave the building without his comrades, and Andi refuses to abandon his criminal life. Andi is revealed to be his estranged brother, whom Rama signed up for the mission to search for, at the urging of their father. On the sixth floor, he finds Andi, who has murdered two of Tama's men. Rama encounters the machete gang and defeats them in a long fight, tackling their leader through a window and plummeting onto a fire escape below. After tending to Bowo's wounds, Rama leaves to search for Jaka's group. Gangs wielding machetes search the apartment but fail to find them. With more of Tama's reinforcements approaching, the team splits into two groups: Jaka, Dagu, and Wahyu retreat to the fifth floor, while Rama and Bowo ascend.Īfter fighting a group of assassins, Rama and Bowo locate Gofar's apartment, and Gofar reluctantly hides the officers inside. Rama uses a propane tank to construct an improvised explosive device that eliminates the invading henchmen. Dropping to the room below, the team struggles to fend off Tama's thugs the three other officers are killed and Bowo is gravely wounded. Rama uses an axe to create a hole in the floor so the team can descend to the lower level. The remaining officers-Rama, Bowo, Jaka, Wahyu, Dagu, and three others-retreat to an empty apartment and are cornered by more armed thugs.

The remaining team members are ambushed by shooters from above and are almost completely wiped out. Wahyu confesses to Jaka that he staged the mission so he can eliminate Tama, who is in league with corrupt police officials, including himself the mission is not officially sanctioned by police command, and there will be no reinforcements. Tama then cuts the lights and announces over the PA system that the rest of the officers are on the sixth-floor stairwell, and that he will grant permanent residence to those who kill them.

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Taking advantage of the chaos outside, Tama's men successfully set themselves free and manage to regain control of the first five floors. Tama calls in reinforcements, including a pair of snipers who pick off officers guarding the block's exterior, and a group of gunmen who destroy the truck they are using. Continuing to the sixth floor, the team is spotted by two young lookouts, one of whom raises the alarm. Arriving undetected, the team sweeps the first floor and subdue various tenants they also meet a law-abiding tenant named Gofar delivering medicine to his sick wife. Together with his lieutenants Andi and Mad Dog, Tama runs the block and allows criminals and addicts to rent rooms under his protection. Rookie Brimob officer Rama trains before joining a 20-man squad led by Sergeant Jaka and Lieutenant Wahyu for a raid on an apartment block with the intent of arresting crime lord Tama Riyadi. A third film was considered but Evans decided not to go forward with the project. Both films showcase the traditional Indonesian martial art of Pencak Silat, with fight choreography led by Uwais and Yayan Ruhian. Ī sequel, The Raid 2, was released in 2014. It was released in the United States on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 14 August 2012. The US release of the film features a film score composed by Mike Shinoda and Joseph Trapanese.

The name of the film was changed to The Raid: Redemption in the United States as distributor Sony Pictures Classics could not secure the rights to the title it also allowed Evans to plan out future titles in the series.

In the film, an elite squad is tasked to infiltrate a high-rise building run by a ruthless drug lord in the slums of Jakarta among them is Rama (played by Uwais), a veteran member of the team.Īfter its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), The Raid received positive reviews from critics. The film stars Iko Uwais, who previously worked with Evans in another action film, Merantau, released in 2009. The Raid is a 2011 Indonesian action thriller film written, directed and edited by the Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans.