The girl with two hammers is slick enough to wipe out a subway car of martial artists, a not-so-rare-anymore instance of women in this genre kicking serious butt. Ingenious but not high art is a man’s face cooked on a kitchen steamer, a shenanigan I hadn’t seen before. The set pieces are imaginative enough to make you forget the derivative nature of martial arts films, Jackie Chan’s humor notwithstanding.įor instance, the requisite car chase is imaginative for martial arts performed inside a speeding car with a grace and ingenuity that almost qualifies it as art. The calling card of this epic is the martial arts in glorious variation from the standard chop-socky fare.
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It’s hard not to think of the Godfather series in the states and not difficult to discern the difference in the US’s emphasis on dialogue and character interaction. Rama ( IkoUwais, from the original The Raid: Redemption) joins the hoodlums of Jakarta as an undercover cop with the goal of exposing the syndicate and police corruption. Yes, Raid 2 is hardcore gang-war stuff set in Jakarta with the omerta (code of silence) well in place and families combating enemy families as well as their own. “You apologize! In their language, in our land! Where is your honor?” Ucock (Arifin Putra) theaters on March 28, 2014.The martial arts approach ballet, and the drama is not half bad, too.ĭirector: Gareth Evans (The Raid: Redemption)Ĭast: Iko Uwais (Merantau), Yayan Ruhian (Merantau) Will you be seeing The Raid 2 when it arrives in domestic theaters in March? What do you think Rama will be up against next? Here's hoping The Raid 2 can match (or even exceed) the thrill of its predecessor. While the American remake of The Raid: Redemption remains in development and Evans himself is slowly making the move to English-language action films, fans of the original film will no doubt be counting the days until its much-anticipated sequel makes its way into theaters this coming spring. Take, for example, the addition of "Hammer Girl." Plus, fans can expect more memorable and imposing characters like the first film's Mad Dog (Yayan Ruhian). Now that The Raid: Redemption has proven successful, the filmmaker will be able to expand on the intense and bloody fight scenes and intriguing criminal underworld he has created, presumably with a much larger budget at his disposal. As previously reported, The Raid 2 will pick up right where the first film ended, sending Rama undercover to investigate the corruption within his own police force and broadly expanding the film's scope in the process.Įvans has indicated that Berandal - now the middle chapter in a proposed Raid trilogy - was the film he first intended to make, before deciding that the budget was too steep at the time. Evans will return to write and direct the film, with Iko Uwais back starring as Rama. Sony Pictures Classics has announced that The Raid 2 will storm its way into theaters in the United States on March 28, following its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in January. fans know exactly when they can catch the next chapter of The Raid saga at their local theater. We've already gotten a glimpse of the film, via its first trailer, but now U.S. Given its success (and Evans' ambitious approach to capturing its many action set pieces), it came as little surprise when the filmmaker announced that a sequel, subtitled Berandal, was in the works. The film currently stands at an impressive 85% Fresh rating on ( read our own Kofi Outlaw's glowing review) and earned nearly four times its $1.1 million production budget in domestic theaters. However, according to many film fans, writer/director Gareth Evans Indonesian-language release The Raid: Redemption accomplished just that. In today's world of overblown action sequences and overdone visual effects, it's rare for an action film to bring something truly fresh and different to the table.