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Vertigo_High Touch The Sky Since: May, 2010
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#1: Apr 19th 2014 at 7:57:26 PM

The Raid 2 has just come out in select theaters yet I see no thread on it. This is a capital sin, as it's easily one of the best martial arts action films in the past decade. Guys, seriously, you need to see this, it is killer. Saw it today and my god, hype hype hype. Like the first movie the first 20 minutes or so is just set-up and okay, but once you get familiar with the characters and things heat up it just gets better and better. The climax fight is just incredible, really raw and brutal.

BUT first you should probably check out the prequel, as to know what's going on. The Raid has its own wiki page and is a good place for details(beware of spoilers).

But yes please see this movie if you can, it's really not getting enough publicity/love and that's a complete shame for such a badass movie.

SPREAD THE WORD.

CaissasDeathAngel House Lewis: Sanity is Relative from Dumfries, SW Scotland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#2: Apr 20th 2014 at 11:56:14 AM

This is an absolutely stunning film, really truly amazing, one of the best films I've seen in years.

The first film is effectively two hours of Indonesian guys battering the ever-loving fuck out of each other with hands, feet and machetes. Also some guns but all the ammo gets expended in the first 20 minutes or so which says a lot about the kind of film it is. The plot is all but non-existent and you don't really need the subtitles for anything other than detail.

What plot there is revolves around the police attempting to bring down a major crimelord by assaulting his own HQ, a heavily-guarded building the police normally are too scared to approach. Minutes into the raid, an alarm gets pulled, the police are trapped inside, and suddenly find that merely escaping with their lives, let alone bothering the crime lord, will be a huge success.

The second film has all the good bits of the first, and so much more. In order to deal with corruption within the Jakarta police force, rookie cop Rama goes undercover in the underworld to try and get close to the firebrand son of one of Jakarta's biggest crime kingpins. Said father is in the pay of the head of the corrupt cops, and with the son in prison, an opportunity prevents itself. But the undercover rookie finds himself drawn into an imminent war between rival gangs; maintaining his cover, protecting his life, protecting his family, and actually doing anything to either the corrupt cops or the criminals all start to look like mutually exclusive goals. In a world in which nothing and nobody is safe or sacred, and in which the bodies are rapidly starting to pile up, who, if anyone, will survive?

You absolutely have to see the first film first, as the ending is blown apart within the first five minutes of the second film (literally, to a degree). I really recommend seeing both though.

The first is pure action, but the second adds much needed characterisation and plot - while somehow increasing the brutality and epicness of the fights which are amazingly choreographed. World-class practitioners of Indonesian martial arts play the key roles, and it really shows. I had no idea how they could top the first with the second, but they succeeded. Gory, intense, brilliant.

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Prowler I'm here for our date, Rose! Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
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#3: Apr 22nd 2014 at 4:24:55 PM

Thought this was interesting...

The movie is a more-than-worthy sequel to the original. I loved it. Doubtless that it's the most badass thing I've seen at the arthouse theater. Well, maybe next to Dead Alive.

God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#4: Aug 31st 2014 at 7:11:07 PM

If I get the DVD of Redbox, will it be dubbed?

SgtRicko Since: Jul, 2009
#5: Sep 1st 2014 at 11:19:20 AM

...I totally need to see the both of these two movies one day. sad

nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#6: Sep 2nd 2014 at 11:53:07 PM

Yeah. I loved how the 2nd film seamlessly picked up where the first one left off. And I was almost shocked that we were given a rich crime drama with a level of action from the first film near perfectly integrated into it. It felt (to a degree) like one of John Woo's old school "heroic bloodshed" films, but with fisticuffs instead of guns.

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#7: Sep 3rd 2014 at 3:54:28 AM

The Raid is on uk free-to-air television this weekend, I believe. One of the Channel Four-owned stations has it.

CaissasDeathAngel House Lewis: Sanity is Relative from Dumfries, SW Scotland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#8: Sep 3rd 2014 at 5:55:31 AM

Film Four probably, they would show something like this.

[up][up] One of the main villains in the first film is called Mad Dog - a clear homage to Hard Boiled. So they've noticed the similarities too.

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