TheBigHarsh I didn't write review for a movie more than four years before, but after I watched yesterday this movie I couldn't just hold myself anymore. This movie is even better than the first one and I was thinking it's impossible for that to happens! The gtreatest Martial Arts action's movie in the history of cinema. Unbelievable!! Gareth Evans you're a God of kicking-butt, you blowed my mind away.

jamdoodle Well , yes is a good film not a great film, yes it's non-stop and entertaining but I can't state it's the best ever or brilliant fight scenes. There is better out there. When fights are on a one to one basis this movie improves (especially the kitchen fight action near the end of the film). It's the group fights that let it down badly, okay so there loads of people they need to defeat or get past. It seems like the bad guys are all waiting in line for there turn to fight! Numerous times we see them running towards the hero in the background, 3,4,5 at a time only to have one attack and then another with the rest still running in from the background. It just takes the edge off the whole thing. Especially when some (*Sorry spoiler alert*) get hit by empty water cooler bottles which results in them being thrown to the fall in total agony unable to get up and fight anymore!? I'd prefer to have these stupid aspects taken out of the film, as it totally takes away from the rest of the action that unfolds. That and the rubber toilet at the start of the film just takes the shine off a clever and at times well made film.

Charles Herold (cherold) The Raid 2 is a long movie, but not a very interesting one. Starting up shortly after the last one ended, the hero goes undercover with the mob in search of police corruption, but the movie ignores that in favor of a perpetually uninteresting and occasionally confusing story centered on the son of the head mobster.It's interesting reading the reviews here because they are mainly favorable and focus on how much action there was even though I felt like the action was pretty thin for most of the movie. There are some big solid fights here and there, such as a muddy one in a prison yard, but there are also long stretches of action-less, tedious storytelling. I felt like I spent a tremendous amount of time waiting for anything interesting to happen, and it wasn't until very near the end that the pace picked up, notably with a big car battle and an exciting fight involving curved blades. User reviews describe this film as more action-packed than the original, but while there may be more action in total, I suspect there's less per minute; it doesn't feel packed by any means.I watched this movie because I really enjoyed the original, but before I compare the two I have to add the caveat that I don't remember the first one that well and am going from a general impression (I seem to have forgot to review it after I saw it).The first movie had a brilliant premise in that the whole movie was a cops vs. criminals battle in a single apartment building. Movies that close the participants in, like Die Hard or Alien, offer filmmakers a sort of built-in discipline, and The Raid was tightly focused because of its structure. The sequel, on the other hand, can go anywhere and does, resulting in something rambling and fuzzy.While I don't remember the details, I do remember it was one of those movies where I would say "WOAH!" out loud from time to time as something amazing happened. I did not say "woah" once during The Raid 2, although I did say "ick" a number of times. The violence is gory and sadistic, so even when it's clever and well-choreographed, as in some subway carnage involving hammers, I found it a bit much.With characters I didn't care about, a clichéd story that didn't make much sense, and action sequences spaced too far apart, this movie never pulled me in. I don't think I'll even bother with the inevitable Raid 3.

adonis98-743-186503 Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force. The Raid 2 is an over the top bloodbath and cheesy movie that somehow got an 8.0/10 and it should have gotten a 3.0/10 because it's really that bad the acting is over the top, the action sequences are over the top and basically the whole movie is a joke that was made because of the studio to win some more money cause the first film was amazing and truly something new for the time. If you loved the first one do not bother into watching the 2nd film as well it ain't worth it really