In the 1973 movie "Sleeper," the hapless, frazzled character played by Woody Allen makes a hyperbolic but ineffectual threat khổng lồ a screaming Diane Keaton: "If you don"t shut up I"m gonna take this rock & bring it down on your head so hard that a substance resembling guacamole is gonna come out of your ears." I thought of that line rather often while watching "The Raid 2," in which the cops & criminals doing incessant battle have to go to similar lengths to vanquish, or even just temporarily incapacitate, their foes. With disquieting frequency, a fractured limb, a baseball bat to the cranium, a bisecting slash to lớn the external carotid artery, that sort of thing, simply aren"t enough. No, in the world of "The Raid 2," you"ve got to lớn get your foe on the ground, and bang his (or her!) head against the floor or the pavement until…you know. Only the substance is red so it doesn"t really resemble guacamole. In addition, you wanna go for severely dislocated jaws, third degree burns where you least want to lớn see them (I understand this raises the question of where you most want lớn see them, and that IS deliberate), potential/partial disembowelings, & more.
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This movie, as its title implies, is a sequel to "The Raid: Redemption," the 2012 Indonesian kích hoạt film directed by the Welsh-born Gareth Evans, whose cinematic mission in life was, some reports have it, handed down to him when he was first exposed to lớn the Indonesian martial arts. The nearly non-stop action of "The Raid," which is an epic depiction of a drug raid on an apartment block in which hordes of cops and criminals have at each other, is largely martial-arts driven, but with plenty of shooting and slashing, all of it shot in excruciatingly you-are-there close range & edited khổng lồ both make your head spin & give you whiplash. Kích hoạt aficionados hailed the movie as some kind of ne plus ultra, và Evans has clearly been eager to lớn answer the fan hâm mộ question "How is he gonna đứng top THAT?"
Evans does get around to lớn topping it, with a climactic sequence that"s about 45 minutes worth of mayhem that includes a very crunchy car-chase/shootout and a one-on-one battle that destroys a climate-controlled wine room in high style. The plot is both simplicity itself & impossible lớn follow: Rama, the anh hùng of the first film, is compelled to go undercover lớn rout both corrupt cops và crime lords & the lethal henchmen of both camps. It"s impossible khổng lồ follow because there are just so damn many crime lords etcetera to lớn keep up with, not that they"re all that distinctive. The Fredo-esque son of one crime lord, Uco (Arifin Putra) distinguishes himself with sleek features và a jaded air, both of which genuinely suggest that he"d rather be fronting a Suede tribute band than doing mobster stuff. That"s probably not a good thing. I also found that Oka Antara, who plays a stalwart enforcer who"s not quite what he seems, gave better kích hoạt leading man than Iko Uwais, who plays Rama.
None of this much matters of course. What matters is a machete-wielding contract killer, a pair of baddies who kill with baseball equipment and hammers, respectively (the latter character is named "Hammer Girl," say what), và all the sound and fury that is delivered with such a relentlessly straight face và gritted teeth that Tarantino"s "Kill Bill" pictures look like "The Gang"s All Here" by comparison. The intensity really falls flat during the scenes in which the kích hoạt stops và various characters ponder the vicissitudes of loyalty & betrayal and all that. These sequences suggest that the lack of anything BUT kích hoạt in the first movie was an indication of Evans realizing his limitations.
In any event, nobody"s going lớn mistake these passages for Shakespeare. But the kích hoạt stuff in "The Raid 2," while likely khổng lồ alienate the squeamish and summon dark thoughts of cinematic nihilism amongst overthinking highbrows, really IS lượt thích nothing else out there. All those looking for a new kick are advised to seek it out, but don"t blame me for the headache with which you might leave the theater.
After surviving a bloody fight with powerful gangsters, rookie Jakarta cop Rama (Iko Uwais) thinks he can resume a normal life. However, his exploits during that fateful incident have attracted the attention of criminals even more deadly than the last. His family at risk, Rama has no choice but lớn go under cover. He gets himself thrown in prison, where he befriends the son of a prominent crime kingpin. Rama must lay his own life on the line lớn finally destroy the criminal empire.
Iko Uwais
Yayan Ruhian
Arifin Putra
Oka Antara
Tio Pakusadewo
Alex Abbad
Julie Estelle
Cok Simbara
Cecep Rahman
Very Yulisman
Ryuhei Matsuda
Kenichi Endo
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