The car chase is unlike anything we’ve ever seen as Evans puts fights inside of vehicles and then uses the vehicles and the road as weapons. The fight in the mud is impressive for the technical skill involved since mud isn’t going to agree with complex fight choreography, and I was wondering how many takes it took for Evans to get some of the longer shots. They’re all masterful and it all comes down to preference. Maybe it was the prison riot in the mud, or maybe it was the car chase/fight scene hybrid, or maybe it was the slaughter on a subway car featuring a character whose name is (I kid you not), “Hammer Girl” (guess what she uses). It’s a movie where afterwards you’ll argue with your friends about which set piece was the best. Like the first movie, the story is serviceable enough to get to the action scenes, and taken solely on the basis of the individual set pieces, The Raid 2 is one of the greatest action movies ever made. That canvas not only applies to the action, but to the narrative. It’s a nice, subtle way of informing the audience that death will still be prevalent, but this time we’ll be working from a much larger canvas. The sequel opens with a wide shot of a green field with storm clouds hanging overhead, and in the foreground we see an open grave waiting for an unknown victim. The first movie was in the close quarters of a rundown tower. Also, there’s a lot of fighting and even a car chase.įrom its opening shot, Evans signals The Raid 2 will be bigger. However, Uco’s reckless ambition sets up a series of double-crosses that threaten to engulf the underworld in an all-out war. Rama goes into prison, befriends Bangun’s son Uco ( Arifin Putra), and once they’re released, he gets into the organization. He’s reluctant to join the cause, but when the increasingly powerful gangster Bejo ( Alex Abbad) kills Rama’s brother, the super cop agrees to go undercover and bring down crime boss Bangun ( Tio Pakusodewo). Picking up where the first film left off, Rama ( Iko Uwais) has brought in corrupt cop Wahyu ( Pierre Gruno), and is now being offered the chance to go after the big fish that are ruining the city.
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