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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Hyper-violent it may be but there is beauty in its brutality.
- 84Film.comWilliam GossFilm.comWilliam GossGood luck finding a modern martial-arts epic that can even hold a candle to it.
- 83The PlaylistJames RocchiThe PlaylistJames RocchiThe Raid 2 brings the noise, but length, repetition and too much space also make it a slightly reduced echo of its predecessor.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThere are tradeoffs with the switch to a more epic, ambitious canvas, but Gareth Evans’ action sequel in most ways that count is an even more masterful jolt of high-energy genre filmmaking.
- 80Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfNo other filmmaker on the planet can touch Evans for long-take beatdowns and wildly inventive flourishes.
- 70VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangIt’s hard to shake a nagging feeling of more is less; with its convoluted plot mechanics clearly cribbed from past thriller templates, the film never quite generates or sustains its predecessor’s pure sense of menace.
- 63Slant MagazineJesse CataldoSlant MagazineJesse CataldoIt's all showy viscera, no ballet, and wan attempts at the gravity of something like Drug War, with implicit statements made about the deadening nature of violence or the moral equivalency of state-sanctioned and criminal force, don't come close to cohering.
- 60The GuardianHenry BarnesThe GuardianHenry BarnesThe Raid 2's faults are not in Evans's technique – he's unusually adept at capturing the art of violence. Instead, the film suffers from too much potential.
- 50McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger Moore“The Raid” was a great action film in which the violence, excessive though it was, served as obstacles in the hero’s simple quest. In Raid 2 the violence is the movie, its excess used to cover for an inept story, thinly-drawn characters and dead spots.