Forget the script and its over-complicated plot, the action is awesome. It alone, as you could imagine, is easily worth the price of admission...

| Original Score: A- | Aug 19, 2024

Takes every element that works about the first movie and takes them to shocking and impactful new heights, pivoting from a condensed and gritty experience into a sprawling story with breakneck, relentless action.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 20, 2023

It remembers what made its predecessor successful and it builds upon it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

When every fight scene is heaped in gruesome dismemberments and gratuitous splatter, a general desensitization occurs that suppresses any particular moment from standing out.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Evans much-anticipated sequel packs a punch - not to mention bullets, lots of sharp items, a metal baseball bat and two hammers...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 24, 2020

[Gareth Evans] attempts to transcend the action genre, and despite not hitting every mark he's aiming for, the fact he's shooting for something grander shows a filmmaker not settling for the status quo.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 21, 2020

Dear Hollywood - if you've thought about making a film version of the popular Sega Mega Drive game, Streets of Rage, don't bother yourself. Gareth Evans beat you to it.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 16, 2020

"The Raid 2: Berandal" is brutal, bloody, and piled high with some of the most incredible action scenes ever filmed.

| Original Score: A | Jul 8, 2020

Currently, Gareth Evans is not only one of the best directors in the martial arts genre, but he has created a sequel that surpasses its predecessor by a large margin and leaves it as one of the most outstanding in years. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 25, 2020

'Raid assassin 2' has each and every ingredient necessary to be, and continue to be for a long time, the undisputed queen of its category. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 1, 2020

Way too long, but the fight scenes are absolutely unmatched.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2019

I am still in awe of that fight choreography...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2019

The Raid 2 successfully captures the exhilaration and unadulterated entertainment that comes from a truly great martial arts film.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 20, 2019

An unfocused opening is more than redeemed by a pulsating, unflinching final hour.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 11, 2019

It's strangely emotional and completely riveting. The Raid 2 is a gloriously savage affair that ups the ante more than any action movie in recent memory.

| Original Score: 8.9/10 | Apr 2, 2019

If you are a bloody action fan who relishes escalation and physical mastery, this is movie nirvana.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 16, 2019

The Raid 2 is an impressive feat of action cinema and one that is sure to go down in the annals of the genre as a defining moment.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 1, 2018

The action scenes in this movie are so goddamn beautiful. Yayan Ruhian did an incredible job with the choreography of each fight.

| Original Score: 9.5/10 | Jun 12, 2018

If you enjoy savage, on-screen action that is unabashedly over-the-top and even sometimes borders on pastiche with all the gangster film tropes, don't hesitate to go watch this.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 14, 2017

The Raid 2 has Uwais back on deadly form, picking up hours after the last film finished.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 6, 2017