CraveOnline called the original The Raid “the rawest and most intense action spectacle we’ve seen from any country in years.” That’s a tough act to follow, but The Raid 2 seems to have pulled it off. When The Raid 2 premiered at Sundance 2014, CraveOnline said, “Everyone who’s wanted to see The Raid 2 will be happy.”
For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, this CraveOnline Exclusive TV spot from The Raid 2 will probably make you happy already. There’s more violence in this one 30-second promo than some action movies can muster in 90 minutes. Fortunately you won’t have to wait very long to see it: The Raid 2 premieres in theaters on March 28, 2014.
From the Press Release:
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.
