Visually, the movies look nothing alike and the stories couldn't be farther apart, but the feel of the film is still the same. With a runtime of two-and-a-half hours and no confining story restrictions (such as being stuck in the middle of a 15-story building), the scope of 'The Raid 2' is huge and has a much grander feel.ĭespite the bigger scale, 'The Raid 2' carries the exact same tone and style as 'The Raid,' and the action is still fantastic. This time, he's not only looking to bring down criminals, but to reveal further police corruption tied to what caused everything to go wrong in the first movie. Our heroic Officer Rama is recruited into a covert division of the police force and tasked with getting close to another of the city's various crime lords. The movie opens shortly after the end of the first film. So, he adapted 'Berandal' to fit the story and characters of 'The Raid' and – voila! – it works seamlessly.
While shooting 'The Raid,' he noticed what was missing from his unsellable screenplay – characters and motivation. In the post-premiere Q&A, Evans explained that he wrote a movie called 'Berandal' prior to 'The Raid.' He'd shopped it around for a while, but because of its expensive scale and a then-missing ingredient, he couldn't get funding for it, so he moved on. With a complex plot, a fully loaded group of important characters and a story containing dichotomies very similar to those in 'The Departed,' 'The Raid 2' is quite a different film from 'Redemption.' 'The Raid 2' is more like ' The Departed' (which is a little funny because that's a remake of a Chinese movie) and doesn't resemble 'Dredd' in the slightest. If you're expecting more of the same, think again. Personally, I enjoyed both films, so the argument over which one allegedly ripped off the other doesn't matter to me. Both involve being stuck in a kingpin-owned skyscraper while trying to arrest the crime lord. Do you think he and Sony Pictures Classics regret adding 'Redemption' to the first movie?īack in 2012, many comparisons were made between the first 'Raid' and the ' Dredd' reboot. While introducing the sequel at Sundance, director Gareth Evans joked that 'The Raid 2' (which then carried the Indonesian sub-title "Berandal") would carry the English sub-title 'More Redemption' because "there wasn't much redemption in the first film." It seems that he never came up with a good English sub-title for 'The Raid 2' because it doesn't carry a sub-title at all. If you enjoyed any part of the first hyper-violent Indonesian action flick, you're going to love 'The Raid 2.'īefore the American release of ' The Raid,' the sub-title 'Redemption' was tacked onto the name. The treacherous drive was totally worth it. I gladly paid the $20 ticket price and caught the late night world premiere in the frozen mountains above Salt Lake City. Although I didn't attend the Sundance Film Festival this year as a credentialed member of the press, when the chance came up to see the world premiere of 'The Raid 2' (then titled 'The Raid: Berandal'), as any sane person would do, I took it.
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