The Raid 2: Berandal

Personally both the last fight and the prison riot stood out for me: the prison riot for me stood out due to me finding out all of the work that the director put into getting the best shots. I agree with the shotgun scene.

However I found that

Spoiler:
The hitman(Mad Dog) was a bit unnecessary. Why flesh him out if he was only going to be in the film for 15 minutes.

Originally posted by wakkawakkawakka

If only other Western directors could get this level of fighting in their flicks.

Same reason Jackie Chan's "western" movies have always been tame....insurance policies.

Funny that because Gareth Evans is a Welsh director.

We're really not on the same wave length, are we Kaz?

Yeah your wave length is in the gutter.

Sigh.
If you read my response to Wakka asking why western directors couldn't achieve that level of fighting in their flicks...it's becos Hollywood execs don't like to risk their stars getting injured or doing their own stunts.

Compare early Jackie Chan films that he did in Hong Kong. He did all the extreme stunts himself, constantly injuring himself.
Then the stuff he did in Hollywood became a lot tamer. "Western" directors didn't want to risk their main star hurting himself for insurance purposes.

So Gareth Evans being Welsh has nothing to do with what I was talking about.

It does make you wonder what the films would've turned out like if he got his funding in the UK or US to make them. Probably have Jason Statham and be absolute crap.

Speaking of which I've heard talk about a westernized remake of the first Raid 😖igh:

that already exists, it's called "Dredd".

Originally posted by wakkawakkawakka
Speaking of which I've heard talk about a westernized remake of the first Raid 😖igh:

yeah I read that somewhere too.

I think Walhberg was mentioned.

I saw this last night. Well, I missed the first 10 minutes or so because I had to wait for 15 or 20 minutes at the box office, apparently because some big kid's release just came out (I still am not sure which one, Rio 2 maybe??)

Anyway, yeah, the fight scenes were still pretty impressive here, but I really didn't like this one nearly as much as the first one. I missed the simple, brutal intimacy of the first film.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Yeah your wave length is in the gutter.