Not a terrible standalone movie, but definitely a terrible sequel. The gap between this one and the first is almost immeasurable in terms of pace, and I really hope the director goes back to the first one in terms of length, pace, basic story and style.
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Hey maybe you could shed some light on this as far as what Iko is shooting. A commercial maybe? People are convinced its 'The Raid 3' but I know that's not it. Thoughts?
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I thought that too but thought Gareth was still writing it. Oh well, maybe so. Can't wait!
shareI can understand (barely) if you didn't like it, but to say it's a terrible sequel is just plain bullcrap. It's an amazing sequel that's even better than the first.
shareIt's not the worst sequel ever by a long stretch but you are well within your rights to dislike it.
I was very disappointed with it after the pace and non-stop action of the first. I just found this one a bit cliched and too much style and not enough substance.
Parts of it reminded me of Hero (hated that), beautiful to look at but not to watch and parts reminded me of any David Lynch film, which was a bit odd. There even seemed to be a bit of Warriors in there.
I thought the scenes building up the loyal assassin guy were rushed and contrived. He can fight. He loves his family. He's loyal. Dead.
I was still with it at this point but when Hammer Girl and Baseball Bat Man were introduced I just thought it went over the line into ridiculous.
There's a girl character. She's emotionless. Wears shades indoors. Oh, she's deaf. She fights with hammers. Maybe they'll attack her in numbers to take away her strengths. No, they'll just fight her one by one. And die.
Okay, this guy fights with a baseball bat, fair enough. Oh, he has a baseball as well; he must be good at throwing. No, he is going to use the bat. Ouch, perfect accuracy. That was a flu...no, he just did it again. A career in baseball would have been far more fruitful than a life as a presumably fairly low paid assassin surely.
I never expected this film to be grounded in reality and can put up with the constant attacking one by one but Silat is gritty and real. The film needs to stay near to reality.
And does anyone own a gun???
Not "the worst ever", in any sense of the phrase, but it definitely has some major problems. The action is top notch, just like the first one, but it feels like trying to go more for story was the wrong thing to do. The pace slows down to an absolute crawl, and the story isn't strong enough to warrant that much attention.
Quidquid Latinae dictum sit, altum viditur.
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shareWorst sequel ever? Really? When there's sequels like Terminator Genisys, Jurassic Park 3 (Alan!), AvP Requiem, and so forth.
Ridiculous statement. Nevermind it's an amazing movie.
We all have our own likes and dislikes but this film is one of the most overrated for any movie with over 500 votes. The 8.0 is laughable at best and paid for people up the score of the film at worst.
I love almost any action flick but this a 5.x movie at best and I think the company is paying people to promote it.
Paying IMDB users to give the movie a good rating? What an absolutely foolish thing to say. They already had a fan base from the first movie, and critics had lots of legitimate praise for the movie. If they were going to bribe anyone it would be critics, and even that idea is far-fetched here; there are currently 127 positive critic reviews, and there's no way that more than a handful of those were paid for.
Maybe you just need to watch the movie again?
p.s. If you are going to INSIST that the critic reviews were paid for, consider Ghostbusters 2016. Even if the critics in that case were bribed or whatever, the IMDB score still reflects a more modest rating.
I love almost any action flick but this a 5.x movie at best and I think the company is paying people to promote it.
Yeah, agreed with flashf1... Can't compared this to The Raid 1.. The Raid 1 is so beautiful epic with the art of hand-bare fighting, bloody's style, and the atmosphere that gareth build all over the movie.. The epic endless tension that the raid 1 runs through out the film (I like "Taken 1" Liam's too) as sold cheap now in The Raid 2...
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