Day 4 - Saturday May 19 Today was much more relaxed. I slept in until 7:10am for a change and spent the first two hours writing. Rebecca and I ate some of the fine, bagged 2€ madelines from the supermarket and set off to catch all the booths we may have missed. What we found [...]
Indonesia
The Raid – Review
onUS poster In the midst of current MA action films - dominated by Donnie Yen, Tony Jaa, and Scott Adkins - a new action film industry and action star are rising from the ranks: Indonesia and its' local representer Iwo Uwais. Uwais debuted in Merantau which came out in 2009 and has since met with [...]
The Raid action scenes surface – Indonesians do it better
onJust when you thought Thailand had the monopoly on Asian people beating the hell out of other Asian people, Gareth Evans and Iko Uwais show up and do it Silat-style with The Raid, only better. Check out the clips and notice that the camera angles have one purpose: to get that shot of choreography. Compared [...]