The raid 2 trailers6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Two things are painfully obvious from The Raid 2 and the first is that Evans is not a director who is interested in staying in one place as he goes the Ridley Scott/James Cameron route, making his hard-hitting sequel as different to The Raid as Aliens was from Alien – thankfully, he also manages to keep the quality intact even though he’s essentially making an entirely different kind of movie from the pulse (and face) pounding original. But how long can he possibly last when such gaudily named lunatics such as the Assassin, Hammer Girl and Baseball Bat Boy are queuing up to cave his face in? Wedged in the middle of this is poor old Rama, who’s somewhat unreliable link to the police is reluctant to pull him out and is forced to use his ability to whup serious ass to try and desperately survive as multiple crime empires clash and collapse all around him. You see, Uco is tired of waiting in the wings and believes his father has gone soft, so he’s gone and cooked up a plan with fellow plotter Bejo and his cadre of comic book psychos in order to fabricate a gang war to help both men ascend in their respective organisations. However, after helpfully bonding during a hellish prison riot, Rama finds himself still in Uco’s employ after being released two years after first accepting the alias of Yuda and is suddenly thrown into a tangled web of deceit and murder when all he wants to do is go home and be with his wife and child. As a result, Rama is convinced to go undercover in a God forsaken, Indonesian prison in order to snuggle up to Uco, the egotistical son of crime boss Bangun in a hope to one day nail epically crooked police chief Reza who has indirectly caused all this carnage. Loose ends are gathered up fast and Rama’s criminal brother is the first to get unceremoniously swept under the rug as he’s shot gunned into a shallow grave under the orders of rival ladder climber Bejo. The shockwaves that radiated out the second hapless officer, Rama, stepped out of a crime-run slum in Jakarta have started to hit hard with the survivors immediately painting massive bullseye’s on themselves merely from the fact that they arent dead. Less Die Hard and more a version of The Godfather where Sonny Corleone has the ability to roundhouse kick an assassin through a plate glass window, The Raid 2 had a lot to live up to – and guess what? It succeeded. Gone was the claustrophobic action thriller vibes that gave the original its edgy energy and instead was a sprawling crime epic that demanded you follow numerous threads as the plot unfurled over a period of years, not hours. Well, in 2014, he aimed to do it again with the long awaited follow up, but rather going down the path of simply trapping his characters in yet another grimy, crime-ridden hell hole, Evans seemed to mix things up, not only changing the rules of the game, but switching the entire genre while he was at it to bring us The Raid 2. The choreographed fights are all intense and realistic with the climatic showdown towards the last half hour of the film being the best sequences filmed on camera.In 2011, Gareth Evans hauled off and smashed us in the face with The Raid, a stupendously brutal, high-energy action masterpiece that quickly crawled it’s way to be a contender for best action movie ever made thanks to it’s high levels of intensity and truly jaw-dropping acts of flesh shredding violence. All I can say that follows is a orgy of brutal, bloody and intense arm-breaking, leg-snapping, hammer stomping, bat swinging, blade slashing, head blowing, bullet-loaded and arse kicking violence in a dash of Tarantino and Scorsese story-telling in its plot. ![]() I can honestly say that myself, my friend who tagged along and the audience were very very entertained! The plot continues 2 hours after the events of the first film, it places our hero into another intense mission to stop the baddies by going undercover for a special unit and blending in with the mob who's on the verge of war with their rivals. I was lucky enough to attend a special screening of 'The Raid 2' in Sydney last night, it was a big crowd for a small event with everyone excited for the film to begin.
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