As far as Sony Pictures Classics is concerned, all you need to know is that Rama's back, bulked up, and ready to bust more skulls, although he's not alone there: Evans has a huge rogue's gallery of highly stylized heavies out for blood, too, like Hammer Girl and the grizzly, bearded Prakoso (Yayan Ruhian, better known to fans as The Raid's Mad Dog). There's a bit more to it than that - he has a few objectives along the road, notably involving Uco (Arifin Putra), the son of Bangun (Tio Pakusadewo), one of the bosses in the city's criminal empire - but this preview isn't really interested in the details. It puts its characters to the sword, to the shotgun. It seems a fitting opening scene for a sequel that expands the scope of its lean and mean predecessor in ways that most fans could never have anticipated, but in which there's still plenty of death for everyone. Slowly, our eyes are drawn to a shallow grave in the middle of a lonely dirt road. If you're out of the loop, The Raid 2: Berandal (literally picking up where The Raid leaves off) puts the embattled police officer right back in the line of fire, taking him undercover to bring down Jakarta's massive crime syndicate from the inside out. The Raid 2: Berandal ups the ante to give us riots in the prison and battles in the bar a girl wielding hammers and a boy brandishing a bat. The first image we see in The Raid 2 is that of an open field. The US trailer, seen above, feels more streamlined than the international number from a few weeks back while also being more expansive than that initial teaser it provides us with the bare minimum set-up, explaining how our hero, Rama (Iko Uwais) ends up in the clink staring down a never-ending mob of bad guys to dispatch.
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