This is how a sequel is done, by turning everything up to 11. My god that was glorious

BEST ACTION MOVIE THIS DECADE

This is how you do an action movie, superb!

This is not martial arts. This is not entertainment. This is a disgrace to human dignity.

Serbuan Maut
Serbuan Maut (2011) (The Raid; The Raid Redemption) https://trakt.tv/movies/the-raid-2012
Serbuan Maut 2 (2014) (The Raid 2; The Raid 2 Berandal) https://trakt.tv/movies/the-raid-2-2014

One cool action packed,watch out hollywood.

This just might be the best action movie I've seen.

OK, so you wanna kill some ninja dude.
Sending one guy with a gun is the obvious. Let's send a hundred guys with machetes!!!

very disappointing, not a patch on the firest, weak plot, hammy dialogue. don't bother.

Fantastic sequel that I finally got around to watching. It is long, so you have to be prepared for that, but it's a high octane Gareth Evans ballet of violence. There are some moments that drag about halfway through and some of the action scenes feature far too much shaky cam for my taste, but that final fight was a masterpiece. The ones prior were also top drawer. 8.4 movie for me.
If you want to check out some more recent work that Evans has done I highly recommend seeking out the series "Gangs of London". Only one season in with more to come.

***The Raid 2*** learned from it's predecessor. Where the first was lacking (no story and one-dimensional characters) it now fixes these mistakes. We now have an actual story, lots of world-building and Rama is more fleshed out as a character. The action sequences are still mind-blowing top quality but they couldn't beat the first's masterpiece final fight with Mad Dog. I love the new operatives (hammer woman and baseball bat guy) and there's so many unexpected alliances and treasons throughout. The car chases were amazing. There's more blood and gore than most horror movies and they show all of it, camera never strays away. So many cool fights it's hard to pick a favorite but the one in the kitchen was awesome.

While ***The Raid 2*** has a more polished story and some bigger stakes I slightly prefer the first, it felt more claustrophobic and the final fight remains unmatched. Such a badass saga that feels like a slice of heaven for action lovers. Makes John Wick look like an amateur. I want so much more!

The kitchen fight is still the best fight scene of all time imo

Today learned that if I ever what to take over Indonesia, all I need is a gun and a gang that attacks all at once rather than dancing around in a circle attacking one at time.

Long without being epic, The Raid 2 treads on the same ground as its predecessor, so is an excellent martial arts film but not much else.

The movie with the best fighting scences in martial arts genre.

Probably the greatest martial arts movie ever. And also extremely well directed. Gareth Evans should do some western movies to see if the western cinema awakens once and for all...