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The Raid 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGareth Evans
Written byGareth Evans
Produced by
  • Ario Sagantoro
  • Nate Bolotin
  • Aram Tertzakian
Starring
Cinematography
  • Matt Flannery
  • Dimas Imam Subhono
Edited byGareth Evans
Music by
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 21 January 2014 (2014-01-21) (Sundance)
  • 28 March 2014 (2014-03-28) (Indonesia)
Running time
150 minutes[1]
CountryIndonesia
LanguagesIndonesian
Japanese (some dialogue)
Budget$4.5 million[2]
Box office$6.6 million[3]

The Raid 2 (Template:Lang-id — English: "Thug")[4][5] is a 2014 Indonesian martial arts crime film written and directed by Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans; it is the sequel to the 2011 film The Raid.

The film was released on 28 March 2014.[6][7][8] It follows SWAT member Rama, the protagonist of the first film, as he is sent undercover to take down both corrupt police officials and the gangs of the criminal underworld. Like Evans' previous films, Merantau and The Raid, the film's fight scenes once again showcase the Indonesian fighting style of Pencak Silat.

Iko Uwais reprises his role as Rama. The film also stars Arifin Putra, Julie Estelle, Alex Abbad, Tio Pakusadewo, Oka Antara, and Cecep A. Rahman. The film also features Japanese actors such as Ryuhei Matsuda, Kenichi Endo, and Kazuki Kitamura. The film is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics worldwide, Stage 6 Films in the United States, and Entertainment One in the United Kingdom.

Plot

Following The Raid,[4] the film opens with Bejo, a self-made Jakarta gang lord, executing Rama's brother Andi for siding with a figure named Bangun.

After the disastrous raid on crime boss Tama's apartment building, Rama meets with Bunawar, a police officer deemed honest by Andi. After executing Wahyu and sending Rama's fellow survivor Bowo to receive medical attention, Bunawar invites Rama to join a clandestine anti-corruption task force. This undercover unit seeks to expose the backroom dealings of Reza, a corrupt police commissioner, and other police leaders who are affiliated with the Bangun and Goto crime families. Rama initially declines, but later agrees to join after learning of his brother's murder and the threat Bejo poses to his family. Bunawar fakes Rama's death to protect his family from Reza and the corrupt cops, assigning Rama to infiltrate the crime world by befriending Uco, son of Bangun and heir to his criminal empire.

Uco is currently incarcerated; to reach him, Rama takes on the alias Yuda, assaults the son of the politician who imprisoned Uco, and goes to prison. Soon after, several assailants led by a thug named Beni start a prison riot and attempt to kill Uco in the chaos. Rama saves Uco from Beni during the riot; when Yuda leaves prison two years later, Bangun hires him as thanks. As Yuda, Rama proves his value to the crime family, earning their trust through his work under Bangun's consigliere Eka.

Despite their power, Bangun's organization suffers from hidden faults: Uco is hotheaded and resentful of his father, elite assassin Prakoso is estranged from his wife and son, and Bangun lives a solitary life with only Eka for counsel. In the meantime, Rama begins to distrust and resent Bunawar, who endangers him by withholding information and micromanaging. While Rama succeeds in growing close to Bangun and planting a bug in Uco's wallet, he grows exhausted with the anxiety of undercover work and his longing for his wife Isa and son Angga.

Capitalizing on Uco's angst, Bejo invites him to dinner at his restaurant. Sharing rumours of a Japanese plot to turn Reza against Bangun and overthrow him, Bejo also lets Uco personally kill his assailants from the riot; in the process, Uco notices a distinctive gang tattoo on Beni's wrist. The duo hatch a plot to start a gang war, which would let Uco prove himself to Bangun and help Bejo profit from the chaos.

Uco lures Prakoso into an ambush by Bejo's gang, then lies to his father that the Japanese were responsible for Prakoso's death. Bejo's elite killers — deaf-mute Hammer Girl, her brother Baseball Bat Man, and the Assassin — kill many of Goto's subordinates the next day, creating the false appearance of reprisal by Bangun. In the course of the escalating conflict, Rama is attacked. He defeats a horde of assailants only to discover police IDs on their bodies after the fact. When the families meet to reconcile, Uco lashes out in anger, embarrassing Bangun into an important territory concession. Shaken after killing other policemen, Rama calls Bunawar and learns that the attackers were Reza's corrupt cops, sent after Rama as part of the gang war.

Bangun beats Uco harshly on their return to the office. Eka calls for Yuda to rescue Uco. While Yuda is on the way, Bejo and the Assassin fight their way in with a mob of henchmen. After revealing his betrayal, Uco kills his father and shoots Eka in the leg. Before Bejo can finish him off, Yuda arrives, stalling while Eka flees. After the Assassin subdues Yuda, Bejo commands his men to kill him offsite. Eka follows, rescues Rama in a highway chase, and drives them to an abandoned scrapyard. Eka reveals that he knew Rama's identity and was also undercover. Voicing disillusionment with his work and his inability to change the harsh realities of crime in Jakarta, Eka counsels Rama that the only solution is to "burn it all down" - telling him to exterminate the gangs - before leaving the car and bleeding to death in the scrapyard.

Goto hears that Bangun is dead and Reza has betrayed him to Bejo. Goto is outraged to learn of Bejo's coup, especially when Ryuichi, his lieutenant, explains that Uco was an accomplice. Goto declares war against both Bejo and Reza, deciding to "start over". Elsewhere, Rama calls Bunawar, relaying news of Bejo's coup and learning that the gang war has dramatically escalated, with the police commissioner shot at dinner. Bunawar claims that Eka had been turned by Bangun and had foiled their previous attempts to infiltrate the gang. He then tells Rama that Reza, the true objective, is meeting with Bejo and Uco at the restaurant. Rama breaches the restaurant warehouse and fights his way through Bejo's men.

Uco and Bejo meet with Reza to discuss terms. Still in shock from his patricidal act, Uco discovers the bug in his wallet. Uncertain who planted the bug, he later notices that Bejo has the same wrist tattoo as Beni, suggesting that the prison attack had been another attempt to spark the gang war. Uco silently realizes that Bejo played him all along and suspects Bejo of planting the bug. Meanwhile, Rama fights and defeats Bejo's personal retinue of killers, takes the Assassin's pair of kerambit, and disrupts the meeting. In the chaos, Uco betrays Bejo, killing him and Reza before turning his attention to Rama.

However, Rama surprises Uco before mortally stabbing him with the karambit. Uco dies in his arms. Rama, wounded and exhausted, limps away. In the warehouse garage, he encounters Keiichi (Goto's son) and a mob of Goto's men, including Ryuichi, sent to eliminate both Bejo's gang and Reza's corrupt cops. While Bunawar learns of the night's events over his radio, Keiichi learns the same from Rama. In a silent dialogue, Keiichi says something to Rama, though whether it is a threat or an offer of employment is uncertain. The film ends with Rama saying "No... I'm done".

Cast

  • Iko Uwais as Rama/Yuda, a decorated SWAT unit member turned undercover police agent.
  • Tio Pakusadewo as Bangun, one of two crime lords in control of Jakarta.
  • Arifin Putra as Uco, Bangun's prideful, impatient son and heir.
  • Oka Antara as Eka, adviser and consigliere to Bangun's group.
  • Yayan Ruhian as Prakoso, Bangun's most loyal and dedicated assassin.
  • Alex Abbad as Bejo, a masterminding self-made gang lord.
  • Cecep Arif Rahman as "The Assassin", Bejo's top enforcer.
  • Julie Estelle as Alicia a.k.a. "Hammer Girl", a merciless assassin who is especially gifted with claw hammers and is working for Bejo.
  • Very Tri Yulisman as "Baseball Bat Man", Hammer Girl's brother and one of Bejo's top three assassins.
  • Kenichi Endo as Hideaki Goto, head of the Goto crime family, which shares control of Jakarta with Bangun's group.
  • Kazuki Kitamura as Ryuichi, Goto's lieutenant and translator.
  • Ryuhei Matsuda as Keiichi, Goto's son and heir.
  • Cok Simbara [id] as Bunawar, the chief of Jakarta's anti-corruption task force.
  • Roy Marten as Reza, leader of the corrupt cops controlling the police force and Jakarta's criminal balance of power.
  • Epy Kusnandar [id] as Topan, operator of an illegal "porn den" in Bangun's territory.
  • Donny Alamsyah as Andi, Rama's brother.
  • Zack Lee as Beni, a convict who serves Uco in prison.
  • Tegar Satrya as Bowo, Rama's fellow SWAT member and survivor of the first film's eponymous raid.
  • Marsha Timothy [id] as Dwi, Prakoso's estranged wife.

Production

Development

Following Merantau, director Gareth Evans and his producers began to work on a project called Berandal (which is Indonesian for "thugs"), a large-scale prison gang film intended to star not only Merantau actors Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, and Donny Alamsyah, but also an additional pair of international fight stars. A teaser trailer was shot, but the project proved to be more complex and time consuming than they had anticipated.[9] After a year and a half, Evans and the producers found themselves with insufficient funds to produce Berandal, so they changed to a simpler, but different story with a smaller budget. They called the project Serbuan Maut (The Raid), which led to the creation of the first film.[10]

While developing The Raid in script form, Evans considered the idea of creating a link between it and the initial project, Berandal. Following the release of The Raid, it was later confirmed that Berandal would serve as a sequel to The Raid.[11][12] Evans also said that he wanted to include car chases in the sequel, as well as a third Raid film being "a lot further down the line".[13]

With the title for the North American market announced as The Raid 2, the sequel has a "significantly larger" budget than its predecessor, and its production schedule took approximately 100 days.[14] Pre-production began in September 2012 with filming in January 2013.[15][16]

Casting

In December 2012, Twitch confirmed that Julie Estelle was cast as "Hammer Girl"; Evans also tweeted that internationally renowned silat practitioner Cecep Arif Rahman was also given a major part in the film.[17] Marsha Timothy, Mathias Muchus, Tio Pakusadewo, and Alex Abbad, who worked with Evans in Merantau, were also cast in the film.[17] Japanese actors Matsuda Ryuhei, Endo Kenichi, and Kitamura Kazuki also joined the cast.[18]

Evans also revealed on his Twitter that Yayan Ruhian, who played Mad Dog in The Raid, will return for the sequel as a new character called Prakoso,[19] who is the machete-wielding chief assassin of Bangun. He claimed that he would not do a martial arts film without Ruhian being involved.[20] Ruhian, who is a choreographer of the film, also trained Estelle in pencak silat.[21]

Filming

In January 2013, PT Merantau Films and XYZ Films announced the start of production.[22][23][24] The filming process took about seven months and ended in July 2013.[25]

The film's lead cinematographer Matt Flannery tweeted that at least three RED cameras were used in a test shoot of a chase scene.[26][27] Gareth Evans mentioned on his Twitter that they were using RED Scarlet for 95% of the shoot, Epic for slow mo, and Go Pro 3 for quick cuts during the car chase.[28]

Distribution

Sony Pictures Classics purchased the film for North American, Latin American, and Spanish markets;[4] Alliance/Momentum for the United Kingdom and Canada; Koch Media for German-speaking territories; Korea Screen for the Korean market; and HGC for China.[29][30][31]

Marketing

A teaser trailer was released at Twitchfilm on 6 November 2013.[32] The Hollywood Reporter stated that the trailer "unleashes more action than most Hollywood blockbusters."[33] A longer Indonesian trailer was released on 31 December 2013.[34]

The American trailer was released on 21 January 2014.[35][36][37][38]

Release

The film had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on 21 January 2014.[39] It also screened at South by Southwest on 10 March 2014[40] and ARTE Indonesia Arts Festival on 14 March 2014.[41]

After a wide release on 11 April 2014, due to low returns the majority of theaters closed the film one week later. This was similar to what happened during the theatrical run of the first film.[42]

Censorship

The Raid 2 was banned in Malaysia.[43] The film was scheduled to hit Malaysian screens on 28 March, but as of 1 April, it had not been shown anywhere in the country due to its excessive violence.[44]

The US release was given an R rating by the MPAA for "sequences of strong bloody violence throughout, sexuality and language",[45] cutting a few frames of graphic violence. Director Evans stated the cuts are very minimal and similar to his original cut.[46][47]

Critical reception

The Raid 2 has received positive reviews. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 79% approval rating, with an average score of 7.4/10, based on reviews from 160 critics. The site's consensus states: "Although its high-energy plot and over-the-top violence may play better with genre aficionados, The Raid 2 definitely delivers more of everything audiences loved about its predecessor".[48] The film has a score of 71/100 on Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews", based on 33 critics.[49]

During its world premiere at Sundance, The Raid 2 received an overwhelming reaction. Mark Olsen of the Los Angeles Times reported that "The screening caused an explosion of excitement and enthusiasm for the film on social media."[50]

On a 3-out-of-5 mixed review, Joey Magidson of the website Awards Circuit wrote that he "appreciate(s) the directing skills on display in The Raid 2, but at a certain point, all of the fighting and killing nearly got to be too much for me. I’m recommending the film, but not in the same way as the last one."[51] He added that while it is "creative enough to be worth a recommendation, it lacks the originality of the first flick" and concluded that "The Raid 2 will delight genre fans, but might not impress to many others."[51]

Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly said, "The Raid 2 will make you feel like Christmas came nine months early. Some action sequels don't know when to say when. But here's one where too much is just the right amount."[52]

Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com praised the film for its "involving plot"; calling the cast, especially Uwais, "charming" and dialogue "winningly precise" while noting that the sequel is "a great step up after the already-impressive The Raid."[53]

David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, remarking, "Evans gives the audience a knowing wink by having Rama endure repeated batterings that would leave mere mortals in traction, not to mention some nasty blade wounds. Yet he keeps coming back, finding the stamina to snap more limbs and crush more skulls. Taking place inside moving vehicles, a subway car, a noodle bar, warehouses, a porn factory, tight corridors and in the most electrifying mano-a-mano clash, a gleaming nightclub kitchen and wine cellar, the fights are dynamite."[54]

Rolling Stone chief critic Peter Travers wrote, "The Raid 2 lets its warriors rip for two and a half thrilling hours. With the precision of dance and the punch of a K.O. champion, Evans keeps the action coming like nobody's business."[55]

Many have praised the film for matching the action sequences that made the first film so great, as well as improving upon the plot and the dialogue, which its predecessor was criticized for.

Amber Wilkinson of The Daily Telegraph commented, "Hyper-violent it may be but there is beauty in its brutality," and wrote, "To say a martial arts movie brings something fresh in terms of choreography may sound like fighting talk, but Gareth Evans's sequel to his 2011 film is endlessly inventive."[56]

Matt Risley of Total Film gave the film 5 stars and wrote: "Sumptuously shot, perfectly paced and flat-out exhilarating, The Raid 2 cements Evans as the best action director working today and may not be the best action, gangster, or even martial-arts movie ever made. But as a combination of all three, it's unparalleled in recent memory and offers a tantalising glimpse into a post-Bayhem action-movie world. Brutal, beautiful and brilliant" and also wrote, "The sheer imagination on show, both in the cinematography and choreography, guarantees each brawl is instantly iconic. Immaculately edited, each traumatic, tensely tactile fight would blur into chaos if not for Evans's pinpoint pacing something that refreshes all the more in the face of modern blockbusting's tendency to start big and just keep getting bigger, until burnout."[57]

Year-End Lists

The film appeared on several critics' year-end lists.

Accolades

The Raid 2 has garnered a number of nominations and wins from both domestic and international awards.

On 19 December 2014, it won the award for Best Foreign Language Film from the Florida Film Critics Circle over Sweden's Force Majeure and Poland's Ida;[64] a first for an Indonesian film. It also received two nominations at the 2014 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards for Best Stunts and Best Foreign Language Film;[65] losing the former to Edge of Tomorrow and the latter to Polish film, Ida. Another nomination came from the 2014 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards on the Best Foreign Language Film category, which it lost to Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure from Sweden. For the 8th Houston Film Critics Society Awards, it also received a nomination in the foreign film category, along with Force Majeure (Sweden), Ida (Poland), Leviathan (Russia), and Two Days, One Night (Belgium).

The film received 10 nominations at the local 2014 Maya Awards, organized by online film community (Piala Maya; maya means online in Indonesian). On 20 December 2014, it won four of its ten nominations: Best Cinematography for Matt Flanery and Dimas Subono, Best Editing for Evans and Andi Novianto, Best Special Effects, and Best Supporting Actor for Arifin Putra. It was also nominated for Best Film, Best Original Score, Most Memorable Featured Appearance for Julie Estelle as 'The Hammer Girl' (all three lost to Cahaya dari Timur); Best Hair & Make-Up and Best Sound Mixing (both lost to Killers), as well as another nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category for Oka Antara (who lost to co-star Arifin Putra).[66]

Year Award Category Nominee Result
2014 Golden Trailer Awards Best Foreign Action Trailer The Raid 2 Nominated
2014 Florida Film Critics Circle Best Foreign Language Film The Raid 2 Won
2014 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Foreign Language Film The Raid 2 Nominated
2014 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards Best Stunts The Raid 2 Stunts Team Nominated
2014 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Foreign Language Film The Raid 2 Nominated
2014 Maya Awards Best Film The Raid 2 Nominated
2014 Maya Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role Arifin Putra Won
2014 Maya Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oka Antara Nominated
2014 Maya Awards Most Memorable Featured Appearance Julie Estelle Nominated
2014 Maya Awards Best Cinematography Dimas Subono

Matt Flanery

Won
2014 Maya Awards Best Editing Andi Novianto

Gareth Evans

Won
2014 Maya Awards Best Sound Mixing Nominated
2014 Maya Awards Best Original Score Aria Prayogi
Fajar Yuskemal
Joseph Trapanese
Nominated
2014 Maya Awards Best Special Effects Andi Noviandi Won
2014 Maya Awards Best Makeup & Hairstyling Nominated
2015 Houston Film Critics Society Awards Best Foreign Language Film The Raid 2 Nominated

Deleted scenes

There were a number of scenes deleted from the final cut that made it to wide release. Some of these deleted scenes were published by Merantau Films on their YouTube page.[67] These following scenes, however, are not equipped with proper sound editing and special effects.

  • Gang War was released prior to the film's release and "served to escalate the gang war out onto the streets involving people outside of the closed off inter-gang politics." Evans commented of this particular deleted scene as "the hardest for [him] to cut"[68] and explained that the reasons to cut the scene were "entirely down to pacing issues."[68] No characters that appeared in the final cut were seen in this scene.[68]
  • Investigation contains "an extended version of the scene with Bunawar helping to clear Rama's name and remove him from the equation of what went down in The Raid."[69] Andi (Donny Alamsyah) is seen in this scene leading his men to hand-deliver the SWAT Team truck to Bunawar's office to "reinforce the relationship hinted at in The Raid."[69]
  • A Funeral and Bowo was intended as "an extension of the funeral scene with an added explanation of what happened to Bowo; one of the surviving members of the SWAT Team in The Raid."[70]
  • The Politician's Son depicts Rama (as Yuda) beating a politician's son at a night club which, in the final cut, was only mentioned as the reason for his imprisonment at the beginning of the film. Former MTV VJ Daniel Mananta was seen in this scene as someone introducing Yuda to a 'boss'.[71]
  • The Marketplace was deleted due to "pacing reasons";[72] containing a scene set at a local market in which Rama (still undercover) checked up on his wife and son from afar before leaving them unseen.
  • Prakoso Getting Ready was a "small scene to show Prakoso's home and a different side to his character away from his role as executioner." On the reason for the deletion, it is said that "The concept was to show a fragility and a vulnerability in him, but [the filmmakers] felt this was already achieved by Yayan [Ruhian]'s performance in the scene with his ex-wife."[73]

Sequel

On 6 January 2014, Total Film reported that The Raid 3 will take place two hours before the end of The Raid 2.[74] Also on 19 April 2014, during an interview with Metro, director Evans said that he is planning to take a break from martial arts movies for two or three years before filming it.[75][76][77] The Raid 3 is planned for 2018 or 2019.[78]

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