The Raid 2
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Sep 24, 2026
Brett McGarryHOST
When I learned that they were Indonesian because I was hoping for some Indonesian fighting scenes.
Brett McGarryHOST
I've talked about those movies, The Raid and The Raid 2.
Brett McGarryHOST
Some of the most electrifying martial arts you'll ever see.
Brett McGarryHOST
And indeed, that beating Reacher took in that finale.
PaulHOST
I would like to see more in this direction with maybe some characters from the games and kind of fleshing out the world more and making more of a substantial story.
PaulHOST
I would view it as like The Raid, and then you've got The Raid 2, whereas The Raid's very action-heavy and kind of focused on just moving forward, more about momentum and stuff like that and going along for the ride.
PaulHOST
whereas the raid 2 is like quite fleshed out and has lots of character development and stuff like that so that's how i would like to see a sequel go but for a a fun ride i don't know if it's because it has the weight of an ip leaning over it that i'm more kind of my expectations are higher Whereas Barbarian ends sort of very similar as well, where she just kind of, she's hobbling off along the street.
PaulHOST
Weapons has, you know, some closure to it.
PaulHOST
But I think because it's an IP and one that I really, really like, just my expectations of what I wanted to see in it are a bit higher and how I wanted it to end.
speaker_3HOST
This looks like another throwaway revenge thriller.
speaker_3HOST
The Raid 2 hits earlier that spring, and even the people who loved the first one are thinking, okay, how do you possibly top that apartment building siege? Uh, here's what's wild.
speaker_3HOST
These films are happening on literally opposite sides of the planet.
speaker_3HOST
Chad Stahelski's team in New York and Los Angeles, Gareth Evans and his Indonesian crew in Jakarta.
speaker_3HOST
Quick cuts, handheld cameras flying around like caffeinated hummingbirds.
speaker_3HOST
You'd get 15 cuts in a five-second fight and have no idea who punched whom.
speaker_3HOST
John Wick and The Raid 2 both said, what if we just held the shot? What if we trusted the audience to follow along? What if, and this is the crazy part, what if we actually trained actors and stunt performers so well that the choreography itself became the spectacle? Now, The Raid films.
speaker_3HOST
Let me talk about those first, because they came from somewhere specific.
Mr. GreenHOST
Yeah
Peter KuplowskyGUEST
... for years, and I succeeded with Man Who Feels No Pain and then Kill, and now this year Half, which is a really cool neo-dark, uh, martial arts film that kind of combines Indian sensibilities with Indonesian martial arts sensibilities, 'cause it has literally Baseball Bat Man from The Raid 2 choreographing all the action.
Peter KuplowskyGUEST
So that's really cool.
Peter KuplowskyGUEST
A- a- and I also wanna flag Trees Are Watching by Bhamang Ghobadi, which is an amazing horror film that frankly Had I seen it earlier, had we been able to work things out, but it came in very last minute, it might've been in my main Midnight section, but we're still playing it on the last weekend, and it's a Turkish horror film where Eva Green plays a writer who returns to Turkey and starts getting terrorized by, of all things, you're gonna laugh, an inanimate chair.
Justin SandovalHOST
That one it's creating a, entire actor actress coming into the superhero realm with Indy Navarrete who's going to be rogue we've talked about that in length but it's her breakout role and so much so much incredible things came from that horror movie the next one is it's like a it's a it's a foreign martial arts film called the furious four and a half stars the furious and It stars Joe Taslim, who is known for playing Sub-Zero in Mortal Kombat 2.
Justin SandovalHOST
And it's the choreography of the people who did the movies The Raid and The Raid 2.
Justin SandovalHOST
And so you get a lot of...
Justin SandovalHOST
This has some of the most unique fight choreography that I have seen in a long time.
DJ NikHOST
I'm sure they're going to do it eventually.
DJ NikHOST
When it came to my other two recommendations, I would also say The Raid 2. because especially if you love the fighting in this one, because it's much more grounded and serious, but the choreography in The Raid 2 is phenomenal and incredibly physical.
DJ NikHOST
The action is far more sustained and intricate.
DJ NikHOST
So if the brutal hand-to-hand combat was your favorite part of Mortal Kombat, this is an easier recommendation, and that is The Raid 2.
DJ NikHOST
And last but not least, maybe a movie we'll eventually be covering on this podcast, and that is Warcraft.
DJ NikHOST
I chose this one for the fantasy world building side of this film because it has different races and magical abilities and ancient conflicts and warriors and a much larger mythology happening behind the immediate story.
AndrewHOST
The Furious.
AndrewHOST
It's made by the same people who did The Raid and The Raid 2.
AndrewHOST
It's set in Taiwan, Singapore, an Asian island country.
AndrewHOST
Okay.
Rebecca WaddenHOST
Yes
Tobias WaddenHOST
... like The Raid and The Raid 2-
Rebecca WaddenHOST
Mm-hmm
Tobias WaddenHOST
... and, uh, W- We Own the Night or whatever it's called.
Patrick BromleyHOST
I thought the characterization was like whatever.
Patrick BromleyHOST
I don't think it's like an action masterpiece the way that I think the Raid 2 is an action masterpiece.
Patrick BromleyHOST
But I thought the fight choreography and...
Patrick BromleyHOST
the amount of kind of onscreen mayhem was incredible.