Through doing this his ultimate goal is to bring down corruption in the city by unearthing the identities of corrupt officials. The Raid 2 moves Rama out of the tower block and into the city- he is tasked with going undercover in a prison to befriend the son of one of Jakarta’s leading mob bosses.
So when The Raid 2 was announced the logical assumption from many people was ‘well surely he can’t top the first one.’ By all means go into the movie with that assumption, by doing so the movie may manage to blow you away even more. The great thing about The Raid was a fight scene would come along and blow you away, and you’d sit thinking, well you can’t top that- but then it would and it would continue doing so for 100 breathtaking minutes of madness. He transformed brutality into an art form as his lead character Rama, played by Iko Uwais expertly dispatched his victims with the martial art Pencak Silat. The Indonesian funded martial arts/action movie about a group of cops in Jakarta who are given the task of taking down a gang leader who sits on the highest level of a 30 story block of flats became a word of mouth hit and reminded us all just how beautiful and brilliant bloodshed and fighting could actually be. When Gareth Evans directed The Raid a few years ago it would have been difficult for him to imagine the impact it was going to have.
The use of superlatives is something I try my utmost to avoid when I sit down to review a film they should be saved for the crème of the crop, the movies that really blow you away and redefine your expectations- movies like The Raid 2.
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