The Raid vs The Raid 2

Raid 2 is a better movie without a shadow of a doubt. The story is better allowing for some good dramatic moments tut let the film breathe. The characters more fleshed out & it has better set pieces & of course, the villains are way nastier.

Duh Raid 2 but both are fantastic.

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The Raid 2 is a better movie overall, but not the action/fighting scenes...i thought they were alot more intense in this one.

~If the realistic details fails, the movie fails~

it's impossible to decide which one is the best, they're both so unbelievably intense that it's impossible to choose

I actually thought the first Raid movie was clearly superior. The Raid 2, while not bad, is still pretty crumby when people aren't fighting each other. The hokey melodrama and whatnot in that film really drags it down. The first Raid, if I recall correctly, had no such problem. Overall, I'd give the first one an 8/10 and the second one a 6/10.

The Raid 2 is easier to admire than love for me personally. I like that the filmmakers decided to go in such a radically different direction from the first one when they could have easily- and if it were a Hollywood sequel they would have for sure- just made it a repeat of the original concept ala Die Hard 2. That said, I'm not sure the ambition necessarily pays off. There is more plot and character development sure but its the sort of plot we've seen plenty of before in other gangster films and action films before it. The story isn't a very focused one at all and for a good middle chunk of the film the main character is pretty inconsequential. That said, the action scenes in the film ARE on a grander scale and are largely better than what we get in the first film. I just which the second film were a little tighter and more focused and then it would truly trump the first. As it stands though, as an overall movie The Raid is simply the better movie.

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