The sound design – particularly later in the film when a baseball-bat swinging assassin boings his way through an army of human pinatas – is viciously good too. He's drawn to block colour and sets that are simple, but distinctive, like Kubrick if he'd abandoned story for putting heads through walls. His locations are pulled from the parts of Jakarta that linger in the middle ground between opulence and depravity. There's a fluidity in the athleticism of the actors (and the camera operators) that appears superhuman.Īnd there's a lot going on around the punching and parrying. The camera circles the confrontations, cutting in on the best moves, occasionally diving to the floor with a bested opponent. Uwais is the same methodical blur of bone-snapping brutality, but his director has become more comfortable in his choreography and much more confident in his editing. The fight scenes are reprehensible – a man has his face fried on a hot plate, a woman uses a pair of household hammers to gouge chunks out of her adversaries – but you'll thrill at the spectacle, despite yourself. Be prepared to idle through a flabby 45 minutes of rote political drama, before Evans sets Uwais off to punch the film back into shape. All you need know is that once war kicks off, Rama is pure and everyone else is expendable. Unlike The Raid, the sequel has a plot, but it's a big fat frippery, barely worth your time. Hero cop Officer Rama (Iko Uwais) has just dispatched a tower block of goons with the Indonesian martial art pencak silat, but already his boss wants him back on the streets, following in the shadow of Ucok (Arifin Putra), a primped prince of the underworld planning war between his father's gang and the rival Japanese Goto family.
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Steel yourself MPAA – it's only going to get grislier from here. For the first 45 seconds, it's hard to see what would stir the rating body. "You guys get to see this before the Motion Picture Association of America have a heart attack," he says.
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G areth Evans takes to the stage ahead of the screening of his disgusting new film.