I have decided that THE RAID 2: BERENDAL will be the best film of the year. I haven’t seen the thing, but I’m assured by colleagues and peers that this is the case, and I can’t wait to discover the madness for myself. To tide us over until the Gareth Evans directed sequel arrives in cinemas later this year, here are a bunch of ass-kicking new images.
Long synopsis alert!
He thought it was over. After fighting his way out of a building filled with gangsters and madmen – a fight that left the bodies of police and gangsters alike piled in the halls – rookie Jakarta cop Rama thought it was done and he could resume a normal life. He couldn’t have been more wrong.
Formidable though they may have been, Rama’s opponents in that fateful building were nothing more than small fish swimming in a pond much larger than he ever dreamed possible. And his triumph over the small fry has attracted the attention of the predators farther up the food chain. His family at risk, Rama has only one choice to protect his infant son and wife: He must go undercover to enter the criminal underworld himself and climb through the hierarchy of competing forces until it leads him to the corrupt politicians and police pulling the strings at the top of the heap.
And so Rama begins a new odyssey of violence, a journey that will force him to set aside his own life and history and take on a new identity as the violent offender “Yuda.” In prison he must gain the confidence of Uco – the son of a prominent gang kingpin – to join the gang himself, laying his own life on the line in a desperate all-or-nothing gambit to bring the whole rotten enterprise to an end.
Check out the brand new images below. THE RAID 2: BERENDAL enters US cinemas on the 28th March, and UK cinemas a little later on the 11th April. It currently holds an 8.5 rating on the IMDB. Impressive as that makes the film the joint 33rd best movie of all time.
Source: Sony Pictures Classics
