![]() ![]() The expanded scope allows for more focus on character and plot, but the film has a great sense of momentum, with one violent confrontation leading to another and another and another. He reunites with Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhian, but they’ve moved from the claustrophobic confines of that high-rise building in the first picture to the entire city of Jakarta. Writer-director Gareth Evans is painting on a wider canvas. In this well-paced sequel, however, there is plot, characters, intrigue, and an opportunity to get involved in figuring out what the allegiances are and who could be trusted and who is going to overturn what crime lord. Also, to this day, no one can explain to me why it’s subtitled ‘Redemption’. That is a standard video-game setup, and the movie played out like one. The premise was this – policeman must kill all the criminal underlings in an apartment building to get to the kingpin in the penthouse. The Raid: Redemption’ was non-stop mayhem with almost no plot or characterization to accompany the ultra-violence. This could be the most spectacular upgrade in movie franchise history (though ‘The Fast & Furious’ series comes close). He does that very thing but, of course, it gets way more complicated, and things become way more violent. The cop who miraculously but somewhat ridiculously survived the very violent events of ‘The Raid’ gets a new assignment – he has to go undercover in prison to cosy up to the son of a crime kingpin so he can eventually get into the organization. Thankfully, you don’t need to see the original to see the sequel this one brings you up to speed within the first twelve minutes. ![]() Indonesian ‘Game of Thrones’) is awesome! And this is coming from the guy who gave ‘The Raid: Redemption’ 1 out of 4 stars in 2012. After Hammer Girl, I met Baseball Boy, and then realized that the train scene was only one of a dozen equally impressive action sequences. For a moment, I thought a lot of moviegoers are going to be turned off by the film’s ultra-violence but that didn’t upset me. This scene gave me an indescribable rush it was pure sensation. A woman pulls two claw hammers out of her trench coat on a packed subway car she and those hammers work their way through a brigade of bodyguards. Let me start by describing a scene in ‘The Raid 2’. ![]()
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