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Raid 2 is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film directed by Raj Kumar Gupta.It stars Ajay Devgn, Riteish Deshmukh and Vaani Kapoor. [1] [2] A sequel to Raid (2018), Raid 2 follows the return of IRS officer Amay Patnaik who tracks another white-collar crime.
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 movie has been hailed by critics and audiences in various festivals as one of the best martial art movies in years. [21] Uwais collaborated on a third movie with Evans, The Raid 2. Uwais also appeared briefly in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), alongside The Raid 2 co-star Yayan Ruhian. [5] [22]
Indonesian film star Arifin Putra (“The Raid 2”) and emerging actor Eloise Lovell Anderson (“Villain”) have wrapped principal photography on Sean Cronin’s vampire road movie ...
A sequel titled The Raid 2 was released in 2014. Both films showcase the traditional Indonesian martial art of pencak silat, with fight choreography led by Uwais and Yayan Ruhian. A third film was considered, but the project was cancelled. [13] [14]
Alongside the initial announcement, Hardy was cast in a lead role. [2] Forest Whitaker was added to the cast the following month. [ 3 ] In June 2021, Timothy Olyphant , Justin Cornwell , Jessie Mei Li , and Yeo Yann Yann joined the main cast, with Quelin Sepulveda, Luis Guzmán , Sunny Pang, and Michelle Waterson cast in supporting roles.
[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 ...
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]