He gets iced in the opening minutes in a sugarcane field by Bejo ( Alex Abbad), a half-Arab gangster looking to grow his territory. Uwais returns as police officer Rama, but his bad-seed brother, Andi ( Donny Alamsyah), isn’t so lucky. VIDEO: ‘The Raid 2’ International Trailer Packs a Punch Still, few are likely to complain given the adrenaline rush of Evans’ set pieces and the inventiveness of the bloodletting. It contains echoes of Quentin Tarantino, Nicholas Winding Refn and Takeshi Kitano, with similarities to the latter’s work enhanced by a contingent of Japanese mobsters. There’s also a sensational extended car chase sequence that withstands comparison to anything in the Fast and the Furious franchise.īut though the sheer muscularity of Evans’ direction remains dazzling, The Raid 2 seems less unique. Those include a baseball and bat, a pickaxe, some cool claw daggers and a pair of hammers wielded by a deadly female ( Julie Estelle). But Evans expands the hardware beyond the usual guns and knives, giving some of his assassins their own special tools. Visceral in the extreme, the bravura martial arts mayhem still takes pride of place, choreographed again by lead actor Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhian, who also appears, though as a different character from last time. That means it sacrifices some of the purity of the first movie, which had its share of weaponry but was rendered exciting and distinctive primarily by its virtuoso assaults of lethal fists and feet on flesh. I don’t know about redemption, but there’s more of pretty much everything in this sequel. Tokyo Film Festival to Open With Takahisa Zeze's 'Fragments of the Last Will,' Close With Oliver Bill Hermanus' 'Living'
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