They’re standing over a recently dug grave that’s waiting to be used. Set on a grand stage, the operatic ambition of the film is evident from the film’s opening shot: a wide shot gazing over a vast, lush field that minimizes humans into small specks in the frame. ![]() By comparison, its sequel, cleanly titled The Raid 2: Berandal, echoes William Shakespeare. Its genre was the claustrophobic action thriller, which began with Die Hard (although the trope seems so classic surely it predates the action classic), and continued more recently with 2012‘s criminally underrated Dredd. In other words, great impact is caused through simplicity and blunt force. That’s not to say the characterizations were thick or complex, but The Raid: Redemption was the Hemingway of martial arts mayhem. Each major character, whether on the side of the police or the side of the mobsters, had a distinct fighting style, an identity, and the longer they fought, the clearer it was. ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, instead of developing characters through dialogue, the story is told almost entirely through brilliantly executed martial arts. The Raid: Redemption was a mean, lean, ass-kicking machine, with a barebones plot that allowed for its jaw-dropping action choreography to do most of the talking.
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