It'll be a few months, yet, before we can feast our eyes on this new Gareth Evans creation. However, 'The Raid 2' is already more than ruffling a few feathers with its early showing at Sundance garnering rave reviews.
Devin Faraci of Badass Digest had this to say after its Sundance premiere on Tuesday;
'Gareth Evans is the greatest living action filmmaker. This isn’t even up for discussion; anyone who has seen Merentau and The Raid suspected as much, but a viewing of The Raid 2 puts the QED at the end of the whole argument. And with The Raid 2 Evans stakes an even larger claim, putting himself into the ranks of the great living filmmakers, full stop. There’s no need to qualify it with a genre at this point - he’s just simply a great filmmaker'
Unlike the first movie, The Raid 2 sees the action escape the one building setting of the first, and out onto the streets of Jakarta. This can only mean one thing for viewers; bigger, more extravagant and badass action. If the trailer is anything to go by, I'll be going to see this one twice.
