Knives seem to be becoming the extinction weapon of choice in cult clobber flicks. Apparently, bone breaking lacks permanence; gunfire much too anonymous. If you really want your movie ruin to compete, you've got to arm your hero with something sharp. Notable examples in the last few years include Van Damme stabbing up derelict Soviet blocs in Universal Soldier: Regeneration, and Won Bin never meeting an artery he didn't like to slash in The Man from Nowhere. The Raid: Redemption makes a play for similar notoriety with this sequence. The re-branded Raid is out now in the US, and will arrive in May in the UK.
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