There’s little doubt that since his astonishing debut feature film, ‘The Raid’ Welsh director Gareth Evans has quickly established himself as the master of mayhem when it comes to action. But if the first film set a bench mark then the sequel raised the bar even further. The sequel picks up a short time after the first raid, Rama (Iko Uwais) goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force that culminates in The Raid 2 kitchen fight.
Behind the scenes of The Raid 2 kitchen fight ….. What followed was series of utterly extraordinary set pieces that began right from the opening scene – a huge prison brawl in a muddy yard and from thereon kept upping the ante. One of those later scenes was a knife fight in a pristine restaurant kitchen that saw Iko Uwais go man on man with no implement left unused s he battles to the death.
It’s a gruelling exhausting and in keeping with the rest of the film utterly brutal fight scene whose opening moments are inspired by Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon. The final epic kitchen fight scene took 8 days to film and contains 195 shots and is a favorite of the director Gareth Evans. He spent 6 weeks designing the final fight and Iko Uwais had trained together with the other fighters for 6 months, so that they would meet every day and build that mutual trust before shooting the fight scenes, so that when one of them missed, they wouldn’t want to punch back harder. In a audience Q&A Gareth talks about The Raid 2 kitchen fight and most intriguingly of all just what went into it behind the scenes….. related feature : Why The Raid 2 is actually The Raid 1 – director Gareth Evans explains why related feature : ‘The Raid 3’? – Gareth Evans answers the question every fan is asking… The Raid 2 kitchen fight – director Gareth Evans explains the mayhem!