I’m hearing the words ‘best action film ever,’ and ‘best film of the year’ being bundled around for the sequel to Gareth Evans’ THE RAID. We’ve got until the beginning of April until we get to see THE RAID 2: BERANDAL, but getting us worked up right now is this superb ‘critics’ TV spot for the flick. This looks belting.
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.
Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Julie Estelle, Kenichi Endo, Ryuhei Matsuda and Kazuki Kitamura star. Check out the awesome trailer below.
THE RAID 2: BERANDAL will be released on March 28th, 2014 in the US and April 11th in the UK.
Source: eOne
