For the first twenty or so minutes of The Raid: Redemption it's gunplay all the way as a SWAT team attempts to infiltrate a high rise building to take out the gangster living at the top. Before long the bullets run out, so the hero Rama (Iko Uwais) has to call on more unconventional means. With The Raid 2: Berendal, Rama goes undercover to help smash the criminal syndicate, and since this is Indonesia, where guns aren't exactly easy to come by, the weapons of choice for villains is more imaginative than you might expect. Hammers, baseball bats and an assortment of knives are the preferred tools for combat, and aside from a few bullets fired during the incredible car chase no weapons of that nature are to be found, and none in the hands of Rama. The Raid 2: Berendal didn't perform anywhere near as well as it should have at the box office so a third installment might be off the cards. Let's hope that isn't the case - Gareth Evans achieved more with the $4 million budget than most Hollywood directors do with ten times that amount.
