Sequel to ‘THE RAID’ starts right after the original. Bone-breaking yes!

Last year’s brutal action flick The Raid was excellent for a variety of reasons. However, for my dollars-to-Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers, what was particularly excellent was the sparsity of its plot. There was no pretense about what the movie was. Thy just wound-up the macguffin and let people break each other’s skulls for two hours. Now we have news about the sequel to the movie, and it is taking place right after the conclusion of the original. Here is hoping that it continues the simple premise, “here are some enemies, punch them.”

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The director tipped off his Twitter followers to one facet of the sequel:

In addition to that little revelation Evans has talked about the sequel quite a bit over the past year, and he told MTV a few things about it before the original even hit the states. Calling it “a big departure in a way, in that we won’t just copy the same formula as the first film,” he went on to say,

It’s not going to be set within one building this time. Everything that was terrifying about the boss in that building in the first movie is small fry compared to the criminal organization we meet in the second film. We take it out into the streets, go much wider and much bigger in terms of the scope.