No, your finger is no longer firmly on the pulse of the zeitgeist. Likewise no, there really aren't that many talked-about action films these days. Except this one, which has been generating buzz since it debuted at TIFF. You just gotta finger some pulses outside of the A.V. Club (oooh, that sounds so DIRTY).

By the way, I saw this at the TIFF Midnight Madness world premiere last September (shot this video there: http://www.youtube.com/watc… ) and where MOST Midnight Madness movies receive boisterous praise from the over-refreshed legions in attendance yet nine times out of ten go straight to video, THE RAID (sans…

Evans pines for the Hong Kong movie heyday, back when REAL martial artists did REAL martial arts instead of the pop stars on wires that came later. If he REALLY knew Hong Kong cinema from the 80's and early 90's, he'd know that there were FAR more pop stars on wires (or pretending to do martial arts), even then, than…