Sony Classics Gives 'The Raid' A New Trailer... And A New Subtitle

It is great that Sony Pictures Classics is releasing festival action fave The Raid, and doing so without making us wait a couple years. (You know The Weinstein Company would hold this one until 2015 or something similarly ridiculous.) So I can't even give too much thought to the fact that the company has slightly retitled the movie.

When you get a chance to see The Raid in the US on March 23, it will be called The Raid: Redemption. And...OK, sure. Why not? I can conceive of a few different reasons to add the extra word to the film's title, but as this trailer shows, that should be the only thing different about the Stateside release.

Yahoo has the trailer. I'm amused by the fact that this edit has a few sensitive moments. But even then this makes the picture look like it is a total orgy of ass-kicking. You don't need that red-band footage of a guy getting shot in the face to get the idea that this movie is interested only in bone-shattering violence.

Rama, a member of a special forces team, arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord. The building has become a sanctuary to killers, gangs, rapists and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they cannot be touched by the police. When a spotter blows their cover, Rama and his team must fight their way through every floor and every room not just to complete their mission but to survive their bloody ordeal.