Film: Action pure, simple and brilliant

Reviewed this week

**The Raid**

**Directed by Gareth Evans**

**Nationwide, cert 18**

**Rating:** 5/5

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**The Dictator**

**Directed by Larry Charles**

**Nationwide, cert 16**

**Rating:** 2/5.

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Every now and then, an action movie comes along that gives the oft-maligned genre a shot in the arm and is a game-changer for all that follow.

Writer and director Gareth Evans's Indonesian martial arts epic **The Raid** is such a film: a breathless, heart-racing series ...