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The Raid 2 (Indonesian: The Raid 2: Berandal, lit. 'thug'; Japanese : ザ・レイド Gokudo , lit. 'gangster'), [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] also known as The Raid: Retaliation , is a 2014 Indonesian action thriller film written, directed and edited by the Welsh filmmaker Gareth Evans .
The Raid is a 2011 Indonesian action thriller film written and directed by Gareth Evans and produced by Ario Sagantoro. [6] The film stars Iko Uwais , Joe Taslim , Donny Alamsyah , Ray Sahetapy and Yayan Ruhian .
[18] Richard Kuipers of Variety wrote: "This cartoonish cavalcade of carnage potently reunites The Raid stars Joe Taslim and Iko Uwais as former friends on a corpse-strewn collision course." [19] Dan Jackson of Thrillist was more critical of the film. He wrote: "Instead of feeling like the action organically emerges from the situational demands ...
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Gareth Huw Evans (born 1979 or 1980) [1] is a Welsh film director, screenwriter, editor, and action choreographer. He is best known for the Indonesian action crime films Merantau (2009), The Raid (2011), and The Raid 2 (2014), and for bringing the Indonesian martial art of pencak silat into world cinema through these films. [2]
Yayan Ruhian (born 19 October 1968) is an Indonesian martial artist and actor. He is known for co-starring in Gareth Evans' films The Raid (2011) as Mad Dog, The Raid 2 (2014) as Prakoso, Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) as Tasu Leech, [2] and Beyond Skyline (2017) as the police chief. [3]
The Raid, a 1986 novel by Arthur Mather The Raid , a 1988 novel by Kevin D. Randle under the pen name Eric Helm; the first installment in the Super Vietnam Ground Zero series The Raid , a 1997 novel by Randy Lee Eickhoff; the first installment in a series based on the Ulster Cycle
[1] [2] It also features actors Donny Alamsyah and Alex Abbad who, along with Uwais and Ruhiyan, would later appear in Evans' subsequent films in The Raid (2011) and The Raid 2 (2014). Evans' first major feature film , Merantau premiered at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea on 23 July 2009, before being released ...