The raid 2 movie#

The raid 2 movie#

He is able to add more to the movie than just the stoic acting from Iko Uwais. Arifin Putra is given a juicy part and he squeezes every drip out of it. The acting goes from amateurish stuntman acting to full-on Shakespearian acting. The action scenes are even better in this one. It was better than most movies from anywhere in the world. The original was an eye-opening to Indonesian action movies. Bejo (Alex Abbad) comes to Uco with a proposal to force a gang war. Uco is itching to go to war with rival Japanese gang Goto except his father Bangun won't allow it. Two years later, he's released as the right hand man of Uco. Inside the prison, he saves the life of Uco (Arifin Putra), the volatile violent son of gangster Bangun (Tio Pakusodewo). Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 8 / 10 even better than the firstĪfter The Raid, Rama (Iko Uwais) is pushed to work for Bunawar and his small group of cops to root out corruption in the police. Go buy this now, you won't be disappointed! Iko Uwais and Gareth Evans both go from strength to strength and everything just gels together perfectly. Everything is perfect: the choreography, the music, the violence. There's a stupendous car chase, a great three-way between top fighters, and the final kitchen one on one, which I think might well be the best fight ever put on film (and I've seen most of the Bruce Lee/Donnie Yen/Jackie Chan/Tony Jaa fights). Stuff continues in this vein up until the last forty five minutes, at which point you realise that everything preceding this point was just the build up to the denouement, which is an action spectacular unlike anything ever put on film. This stuff is great in itself, enlivened with larger than life characters and more depth than you'd expect from a typical thriller. Instead, it's a sprawling gangster movie, an Indonesian variant of the ones popular in Hong Kong and South Korea, enlivened with some incredibly violent and extremely well choreographed action sequences which usually take the 'one vs. This sequel doesn't slavishly copy the original, which is a good thing. I needn't have been THE RAID 2 is an absolutely brilliant movie and one of the best films I've ever seen. THE RAID was a great movie which I really enjoyed, and I heard the hype about the sequel but was afraid to believe it. But very few of them blow me away, and the ones that do so tend to be the really intense thrillers that are packed with suspense and absolutely great action scenes. Many of them have been good, some bad, a lot of them middling.

Okay, I'm 50 films off having reviewed 4,000, so I've seen a fair few flicks in my time.

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 10 / 10 Instant classic and one of the best films I've ever seen And so Rama begins a new odyssey of violence, a journey that will force him to set aside his own life and history and take on a new identity as the violent offender 'Yuda.' In prison he must gain the confidence of Uco - the son of a prominent gang kingpin - to join the gang himself, laying his own life on the line in a desperate all-or-nothing gambit to bring the whole rotten enterprise to an end. His family at risk, Rama has only one choice to protect his infant son and wife: He must go undercover to enter the criminal underworld himself and climb through the hierarchy of competing forces until it leads him to the corrupt politicians and police pulling the strings at the top of the heap. And his triumph over the small fry has attracted the attention of the predators farther up the food chain. Formidable though they may have been, Rama's opponents in that fateful building were nothing more than small fish swimming in a pond much larger than he ever dreamed possible.

After fighting his way out of a building filled with gangsters and madmen - a fight that left the bodies of police and gangsters alike piled in the halls - rookie Jakarta cop Rama thought it was done and he could resume a normal life. His family at risk, Rama has only one choice to protect his infant son and wife: He must go undercover to enter the criminal underworld himself and climb through the hierarchy of competing forces until it leads him to the corrupt politicians and police pulling the strings at the top of the heap.He thought it was over. Formidable though they may have been, Rama’s opponents in that fateful building were nothing more than small fish swimming in a pond much larger than he ever dreamed possible. After fighting his way out of a building filled with gangsters and madmen – a fight that left the bodies of police and gangsters alike piled in the halls – rookie Jakarta cop Rama thought it was done and he could resume a normal life.