- #THE RAID 2 BERANDAL MOVIE REVIEW MOVIE#
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The Raid: Redemption isn't a bloodless picture by any stretch of the means - throats get cut, arteries get stabbed, heads get shot, and bodies get bludgeoned from top to bottom. In one specific case, it's not the plot that's too much: it's the level of violence. The fight scenes are so good, in fact, that you really feel the film slow down when it tries to inch its way through a somewhat convoluted plot.
#THE RAID 2 BERANDAL MOVIE REVIEW FULL#
From beautifully shot fights in a prison yard full of mud to one of the craziest car-chase sequences in recent memory, this film delivers the sort of action that no one else is doing right now.
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Naturally this almost three-hour action movie is stacked with fight sequences, each growing more extreme. Yes, “The Raid 2” brings the noise, but length, repetition and too much space also make it a slightly reduced echo of its predecessor. And yet, again, better fights can’t make up for a too-familiar and over-long script that lacks the snap, pop and purpose of the first film and skimps on character relationships and plotting so that it might better present a death-and-dismemberment toll comprised of hundreds of faceless minions. With its long takes, clear camera work, sublime set design and how-did-the-stuntmen-live? action-scene insanity, “The Raid 2” makes most American action films look like the over-edited stunt-doubled CGI-laden child’s play that they are. (For those unaware, it's about two and a half hours long.) A couple of reviews in particular suggest that all of the additional plot elements that Evans introduces to his crime saga end up sending the film overboard, holding it back and rendering its narrative sluggish and slow: So if the most glowing reviews of The Raid 2 make it sounds like the best action flick of 2014, they're tempered by a range of pointed critiques over Evans' ability to juggle The Raid 2: Berandal's towering running time.
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Promos have thus far made the film look like an eye-popping upgrade to the great The Raid: Redemption, an impressive feat to say the least no one wants to be let down for building up the next installment of Rama's (Iko Uwais) one-man war against Jakarta's criminal element too much in their minds. There's something to be said, of course, for managing expectations in the face of hyperbole or otherwise effusive praise. If The Raid 2: Berandal's international trailer and teaser haven't both ratcheted up fan excitement enough, then advance reactions to it should do the trick. Put simply, the early word on The Raid 2 : Berandal is good - very, very good, in fact, to the point where even the reviews that fall short of hailing Evan's new action opus as an instant genre masterpiece still can't avoid praising the incredibly talented filmmaker's prowess behind the camera. Two and a half hours and a couple of days later, those lucky enough to be in attendance for the hotly anticipated sequel to 2012's The Raid: Redemption have begun rolling out their reviews for the rest of us to peruse in envy and longing.Īs if expectations for the film weren't already high enough. One, the propulsive, kinetic US trailer for Gareth Evans' The Raid 2: Berandalwas posted online for general viewing two, the film itself enjoyed its world premiere in Park City during day six of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
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