The Raid exclusive screening at SM

MANILA, Philippines - SM Cinema gets the exclusive rights to screen The Raid, now showing.

SM Cinema offers 50 percent discount on The Raid ticket for e-PLUS card holders. SM Advantage Card, Prestige Card, BDO Rewards Card and Global Pinoy Card holders can enjoy 20 percent off on tickets for the film.

The Raid is under the direction of G.H. Evans and stars the rising Indonesian actor, Iko Uwais. It is the second film of Evans and Uwais together. Their first film is Merantau, released in 2009, and is considered one of the best martial art films. Like Merantau, The Raid also features the pencak silat, an indigenous fighting style created in Indonesia. Aside from pencak silat, The Raid incorporates different fighting styles. The cast is composed of professional martial artists from different disciplines.

The film is presented by Metantau Films and XTZ Films in association with Celluloid Nightmare. The Raid is about an elite team of cops tasked to raid a rundown 30-storey apartment and remove its owner, a notorious drug lord called Tama. The apartment has never been touched by the police before and is now a sanctuary of infamous gangsters. The team infiltrates the apartment but a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover. Tama orders the lockdown on the building. While the team has been stranded on one of the building’s floors, Tama solicits the aid of notorious criminals to defeat the special unit.

Uwais stars as Rama, one of the members of a special team lead by Jaka, played by Joe Taslim, a professional Judo athlete. Ray Sahetapy, winner of The Best Actor award in the Film Festival Indonesia in 1989 and was nominated several times for the same award, plays the infamous drug lord. The cast includes Yayan Ruhian and Donny Alamsyah. The former plays Mad Dog, the right hand man of the criminal boss. The latter plays Andi, Tama’s second right hand man.

The Raid is locally distributed by Viva Films. It gets an R-16 rating from the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB).