A young man wakes up early in the morning. He gets up, works out, gets dressed, and then walks over to his bed where his pregnant wife is laying peacefully. The man leans over and kisses her before he walks out of the door. This is all the introduction we need before Gareth Evans’s Indonesian film, The Raid: Redemption (2011), explodes in an all-out action assault on our senses. I knew exactly what I was in for when I walked into the theater to watch this film: relentless gunplay and martial arts, with barely any time for us as the audience to stop and take a breath. But little did I know just how turned up the intensity would be. The sheer kineticism and physicality shown on screen rises and rises, and when we think the end is near, pushes beyond that line in brutal and violent fashion. In terms of choreography and stunt work alone, this is one of the more creative and well-made action films I’ve seen in a long time.