2014 ‘The Raid 2: Berandal’ Directed by Gareth Evans
After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.
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Rama is back and ready to kick some fuckin' ass and take some fuckin' names. Shotgun mother fucker. The Bad Lieutenant. The man that was never there. The only fuckin' choice. If you're a fuckin' badass, you will look even more badass in a mother fuckin' hoodie. Deep fuckin' Cover. Shit fight. Wall boxing. The Mop of Death. Curb fuckin' stomp. Mud wrestling. Rama's Magic Mike moment. A flat screen tv. Yummy SIM card. A strap-on king-kong dong. An oriental rug. Sauve Uco. Fuckin' karaoke. You can't make a sequel to The Raid without Mad fuckin' Dog. Red, Red, Wine. Mad Dog's baby mama drama. A beeper. How the fuck-fuckin'-fuck do you kill a Mad fuckin' Dog? Sign language. Stop,…
in most movies, a guy gets shot in the face once and you barely see it, so it's really terrific to find one where you get to see him get shot 17 times through his motorcycle helmet with an Italian machine pistol and then run over by a truck.
IN-FUCKING-CREDIBLE!!!
The Raid 2 is single handedly the best action movie I ever seen! The action choreography was absolutely mind blowing. The Raid 2 is a mixture of Die Hard and Kill Bill on steroids. I'm sorry young Bruce Willis, Iko Uwais has taken your place as my favorite action star of all time. The hand to hand combat is insane. I witnessed the great car chase sequence of my life. If you ever see a chick wielding hammers, RUN! Baseball Bat Guy was a beast too. The film is also shot with amazing precision.
After I left the theater, I needed a huge drink of water to cool myself down because I was totally amped. Just WOW! I seriously can't put the last 30 minutes into words.
This film is nothing short of a game changer for action films.
Having seen countless reviews I got the distinct impression it was top heavy in boring drama and the real kick ass action only happens in the last 20 to 30 minutes! It couldn't have been further from the truth! You couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a phenomenal action sequence from beginning to end for it was riddled with it!
Yes there was an attempt at developing a more complex storyline and fleshing out its characters! Evans was stuck between a rock and a hard place! He was damned if he did and damned if he didn't! And the very same people who demanded exposition and developed characters were the very first to complain when he acquiesced to their…
Ein „knochenbrechendes Vergnügen“. Ein „monumentales Erlebnis“. Der „Dark Knight des Action-Kinos“: Die weltweite Kritiker-Euphorie zu „The Raid 2“ kennt keine Grenzen – und ich kann es bis in die letzte Faser meiner Gestalt nachvollziehen. Deswegen sollen die folgenden Zeilen weder wie die x-te 17-Semester-Filmethik-Abhandlung klingen, noch beim Eloquenz-Schwanzvergleich der globalen Filmpresse mitwirken. Sie sollen einfach eine kleine Geschichte erzählen. Darüber wie „The Raid 2“ meinen Körper in Besitz nahm.
Wie es der Job und das Schicksal so wollten, war ich vor einiger Zeit in London, um ein Interview mit Sir Ian McKellen zu führen. Das Unschöne daran: Ich kam mit einem frühen Flug und hatte zuvor nur wenig gepennt. Das Dilemma: Mein Rückflug ging erst am Abend. Mein Plan: Ich…
ok so maybe the Oscars *won't* be the most interminable precisely choreographed hell garbage I force myself to watch this week.
why is the sequel to a film about people climbing a staircase about as clear as LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD?
listen, the athleticism and camera operating (which is also a display of athleticism) at work here is impressive beyond measure. the go-for-broke ambition is laudable, despite being completely unsupported by narrative purpose and ultimately leading to the film's undoing. but this is AGONY. i can count on 4 imminently severed fingers the number of times in this movie i knew who was fighting who, on 3 fingers the times i knew where, and on the bloody stump where my…
Things I've learned from The Raid 2:
- Indonesian people snap like twigs.
- I didn't like the first film because of its lack of plot and its repetitive nature. The Raid 2 proves that actually having a plot does not necessarily make a film better.
- If I ever were to take over Indonesian organized crime I'd do two things. First close all the hardware stores and second bring guns. They'd have no weapons and the guns they have are useless as they are all crap at shooting them.
- Indonesian Bruce Campbell exists!!! His name is Arifin Putra. Once you have dubbed him Indonesian Bruce Campbell you simply cannot see him any other way.
- Gareth Evans is…
The Raid 1 = Knives Out
The Raid 2 = Glass Onion
It’s familiar in design but larger in scale. The action pieces upheld the stellar choreography and brutality, and the stakes feel more important.
However, the tight and simple nature of The Raid 1 will always stand out to me.
This movie was great but I still liked the first one a bit more.
This sequel had more story, while still having all the cool action scenes. The story was an interesting undercover story but it just made the movie a bit long and it had a couple of pacing issues.
The movie added a lot of characters and I struggled to keep track of them all, which made the movie a bit confusing at some points. Some characters were also too cartoonish, for example the hammer girl and baseball guy, which just felt a bit silly.
The action scenes were still fast and violent and some scenes like the prison fights and the kitchen fight were better than any fight…
▶ Part of jvince's Top 200 Films of All Time
The Good: I tried jotting down notes in my mind while watching the film, but there was just too much awesomeness going on, I lost track. Just go see the damn movie. Everyone, just go.
The Bad: No mere mortal could've possibly made this film because it's fucking perfect. The Raid 2 is a perfect action flick.
The Bottom Line: The Raid possessed a simple yet ingenious concept, but it lacked variation. Leaving the confines of a single building has done wonders for Gareth Evans' breakout franchise. The flaws of Redemption have been addressed in Berandal. The characterization, the cinematography, and most notably the story have all been shored up.…
Taking place 2 hours after the events of The Raid, The Raid 2 (also known as The Raid 2: Berandal) continues the quest of Rama as he goes undercover to weed out more corrupt cops & politicians. The story then jumps 2 years ahead where we see him making a steady rise through the hierarchy of Jakarta's most powerful crime syndicate. But when the peace between the underworlds of Indonesia & Japan is disturbed by a new player in town, it sets in motion a chain of events that forces Rama to take them all out once & for all.
Gareth Evans could've easily chosen the same concept that worked so well in the original but he has greater ambitions here as The…
