![]() If action films have become one dimensional, dumb, and reliant on CGI rather than stuntsmanship and moxie, then Evans’ two films will do no less than to restore faith in the relevance of the moving image. ![]() It made for an exhausting four hours (with a quick pint in between features), but a stretch that bedazzled, invigorated, amazed and floundered. In a typical cheeky programme, Chapter Arts Centre presented, back to back, Glamorgan-graduate and Hirwaun-born director Gareth Huw Evans’ hit Indonesian action films, The Raid: Redemption(2012) and the newly released sequel The Raid 2. That is why we applaud at the theatre, after all because we want to say thank you in person. For a film-maker, absent most of the time, it must be the ultimate accolade, to have convinced an audience to such a degree that immersion is total, and the experience of the film has been one as daring and kinetic as great theatre. It is a rare thing to be moved to applause in a cinema. Gary Raymond reviews the Chapter Arts Centre’s double-billing of Gareth Huw Evan’sThe Raid: Redemption, and The Raid 2: Berandal.
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