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A hard-nosed hit man Raid returns to Finland and is unofficially asked to investigate the arson case involving his old flame Tarja.

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Tapio Piirainen
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Cast overview, first billed only:
Kai Lehtinen ... Raid
Oiva Lohtander ... Police Lieutenant Eero Jansson
Mari Rantasila ... Tarja Piirainen
Pekka Huotari Pekka Huotari ... Police Sergeant Hannu 'Hopo' Huusko
Kirsti Valve Kirsti Valve ... Sergeant Susanna 'Sanna' Susisaari (as Kirsti Väänänen)
Juha Muje Juha Muje ... Sundman
Markku Maalismaa Markku Maalismaa ... Horseman
Harry Baer ... Mark Hollander
Lia Boysen ... Venla Saarenmaa
Jorma Tommila ... Legionary
Seppo Kulmala Seppo Kulmala ... Ponytail
Erik Kiviniemi Erik Kiviniemi ... Scarface
Jari Hietanen Jari Hietanen ... Russian Criminal
Tommi Korpela ... Russian Criminal
Jari Pehkonen Jari Pehkonen ... Russian Criminal
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A hard-nosed hit man Raid returns to Finland and is unofficially asked to investigate the arson case involving his old flame Tarja.

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Action | Crime | Thriller

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Trivia

Editor of this film, Kauko Lindfors, tells how they lightened up the atmosphere in the editing room: In the film there is one scene where Ratsumies-character farts, and that's why there was a fart-sound effect among gun-effects on their computer. Every now and then they amused themselves by adding a fart into all kind of scenes, for instance a tender love scene or action. See more »

Quotes

Horseman: Lada kardan?
Russian Criminal: Njet. Volga.
Horseman: Kalashnikov?
Russian Criminal: Da.
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Connections

Referenced in Paha parempi Raid (2003) See more »

Soundtracks

Näkemiin rakkaani
Music by Pekka Marjanen
Lyrics by Tapio Piirainen
Arranged by Pekka Marjanen and Tapio Piirainen
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Todays Helsinki with strong cyberpunk feeling.
3 February 2003 | by MunterSee all my reviews

Raid was very popular tv-serie in Finland couple of years ago. It was a good story of dirty political deals including many human casualties. There were two kind of main characters. Polices and villains. Police leading characters investigate a case that was too hot to handle. Even they own superiors constantly try to brake the investigations and many finish leading politics were involved. At the same time professional hitman called Raid try to investigate the same thing for his own reasons. These both sides had very different working ways, but they had a mutual goal, so policemen try to look in a different way as much as they can when Raid handle a situation his way.

Movie Raid is a sequel to this tv-serie. Like tv-serie it is very comical and it has superior dialogs and absolutely not any boring characters.

Film is very good and surely worth of watching. There was a certain feeling that too many original tv-serie characters was put in the movie just because they are fun comical sidekicks, but that is the most common problem of all sequels.


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Country:

Finland | Sweden | Germany

Language:

Finnish

Release Date:

31 January 2003 (Finland) See more »

Also Known As:

Рейд See more »

Filming Locations:

Helsinki, Finland See more »

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Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$790,941
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1.85 : 1
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