The Raid 2 (A.K.A The Raid 2: Berandal in Indonesia) is a Indonesian action film released in 2014, which directed by Welsh director Gareth Evans, a same director did the first movie called The Raid was released in 2012. This movie is a sequel to the original 2012 movie, which I've already enjoyed the movie overall because it's has tons of ultra violence with blood splatted all over the place, crazy martial arts techniques, and it has action packed madness with insane weapons that makes the whole movie so epic to watch, so if you haven't seen the first movie yet, then go check it out because it is the most recommended movie to watch it on DVD or Blu Ray.
If you haven't seen my movie review of the first ones, then here is my link down below to go check it out first before you're ready to read my review on this movie.
The Raid Blu Ray Review:
Okay, here are my thoughts about this movie. I've enjoyed watching this movie because it's a fantastic sequel that offers more variety of having more story development giving more important plot of this movie, new casting choices with interesting characters, more graphical effects with even more gruesome gore and blood than was before, and well made action work with better stuntwork and extreme fight scenes makes the movie overall much intense and fun to watch.
It may be not just good as the first movie, but it is still frigging awesome film that the fans of the first movie would love this action packed film.
Presentation
The movie follows the event after the first movie, the SWAT member Rama (Played by Iko Uwais) meets with the police officer Bunawar (Played by Cok Simbara), giving him the mission to investigating on Bangun and Goto gangs after he learning of his brother's death and imminent threat to his family.
I say this movie are more heavily focused on story development to expand the character's interesting plot and giving the most important dialogue of the movie in which allowing to put more details on the storyplot to know what the characters are actually talked about during the scenes, which seems the director is doing very well for having the well written plot development, superb dialogue, and having the fantastic presentation overall.
I say the casting of the characters are doing awesome job in the movies, such as Iko Uwais has done a great job playing as the main character, while others like Cecep Arif Rahman, Julie Estelle, and Very Tri Yulisman are surprisingly played the best villains in movie history is due to badass looking concept of the group of villains are actually done really awesome job in the fight scenes. I'm glad that Yayan Ruhian, who previously played Mad Dog from the first movie, makes the appearance on this movie playing as Prakoso, which sounds like a great choice of the character in the movie.
Overall, I love the presentation overall with outstanding story and fantastic characters with awesome casting choices makes this film another masterpiece.
Atmosphere
I love the action sequences because it brings even more hardcore than was before, so I like seeing the bad guys get showered by the bullets and getting head blowned up by the weapons with blood splatted all over the place, gets hit by the dangerous objects such as cars and truck, and beaten and sliced with the bats, hammer, stick, and knife makes the whole fight scenes look gruesomely brilliant, which I believe that the director wanted to make the special effects techniques and stuntwork look more realistic to make the movie atmosphere so entertaining.
The martial arts techniques on the fight scenes are actually much fast paced and has very intense performance seems done very good job and the stunt work for chase scenes is just awesome to watch.
I say this movie has the best atmosphere overall ever made in film history.
Music and Sounds
I say the Joseph Trapanese and others artist did a good job using the darker industrial music and adding orchestrated soundtrack sounds pretty decent in the movie, but it wasn't sound exciting as the first movie, which I liked the soundtrack better from the first movie, but I say the music on this movie sounds pretty good so far.
I like the sound work in the movie, which are perfect for higher quality speakers because it really has the ambient sound, more sound atmosphere, background noises, and the sound effects are cooler for gun shooting sequences, which they did a great job with sound development for this movie.
Special Features
This Blu Ray version comes with deleted scenes, commentary, behind the choreography, and exclusive Q&A with actors and directors, which is nice features on the blu ray version.
Advantages
Intense fight scenes
Well made presentation
Great stuntwork
Excellent graphical violence
Decent soundtrack
Perfect sound effects
Disadvantages
None at all
Final Verdict
Presentation 9.8/10 - Well written plot development, superb dialogue, amazing casting choices for characters, and having the fantastic presentation overall.
Atmosphere 10/10 - Fantastic fight scenes, superb graphical violence, and well made special effects.
Music and Sounds 9.5/10 - Excellent soundtrack, ambient sound, more sound atmosphere, background noises, and higher quality sound effects.
Special Features 9/10 - Deleted scenes, commentary, behind the choreography, and exclusive Q&A with actors and directors.
Overall 9.8/10 - The Raid 2 is definitely another best sequel to the best original 2012. This movie deserves higher praise for having superb story and characters, ultra violence madness, intense action scenes, awesome special effects, and the whole atmosphere of this movie is just amazing to watch, which the fans of the first movie should able to pick this film up is worth buying it.
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