But as soon as the action starts, the mix unleashes all kinds of hell on your speakers. The Indonesian DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack doesn't really announce its presence until the action gets underway, sounding a little underwhelming when people aren't killing each other. Technically, the Blu-ray is sound, delivering exactly what the Gareth Evans captured – even if, in purely visual terms, it isn't all that exciting.Īudio: What The Raid lacks in visual panache, it makes up for with its acoustic elan. The Blu-ray's AVC-encoded 1.78:1 encode highlights many of the pitfalls common to shooting digitally, including waxy skintones, wavering contrast levels and flat shadows.īut all of these flaws are inherent in the source material and were seen by anybody who caught the film at the cinema. Picture: It may outpace its Hollywood rivals with its fight scenes, but when it comes to picture quality there's no mistaking The Raid for anything other than the low-budget film it is.

That pretext leads into a feature-length orgy of violence, showcasing some of the best-choreographed, most imaginative action scenes committed to film in years. And that's all the plot there is to Gareth Evans' turbo-charged movie, The Raid. Welsh director Gareth Evans annihilates the competition with his modern martial arts classicĪ group of heavily-armed cops find themselves trapped inside a 15-storey apartment block and facing overwhelming odds when a raid on a local crime lord goes horribly wrong.

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