Iko Uwais became a worldwide martial arts star in The Raid movies, but his first movie Merantau laid the foundation for it in four key ways.
Iko Uwais' debut movie Merantau poised The Raid films for success in several key ways. Released in Indonesia in 2009 and releasing internationally in 2010, Merantau follows a young man named Yuda , who ventures from his tiny village to Jakarta and encounters a human trafficking operation. Armed only with his skills as a Silat exponent, Yuda must fight to stop the ring's overlords Ratger and Luc and save the captive Astri and her brother Adit .
The Raid would benefit from that with Merantau having provided a kind of Silat appetizer ahead of its release. In doing so, this gave The Raid license to essentially jump straight into the action with only the most basic of set-ups needed for its plot. The Raid 2's fight scenes would subsequently also benefit with Silat-based fight choreography increasingly mainstream by the time of its 2014 release, which gave it the chance to tell an even grander crime-story with Silat action.
In The Raid, Yayan Ruhian is both chilling and captivating as the villainous Mad Dog. Alamsyah also returns in a more prominent role in The Raid as Rama's brother Andi, with the two facing Mad Dog in The Raid's heart-racing two-on-one showdown. The Raid 2 later not only saw the return of Evans, Uwais, and Alamsyah return, but also Ruhian as the blade-wielding henchman Prakoso, with Abbad graduating to the string-pulling gangster Bejo.
1 Merantau Positioned The Raid's Villain For A Breakout Role In Merantau, Yayan's Ruhian's aforementioned Eric is a man in a bad situation, in the employ of the movie's human trafficking villains and believing he cannot escape their iron grip After Yuda and Eric's elevator fight, Eric sacrifices himself to save Yuda from being shot, and while this is a redemptive death for the reluctant antagonist, Ruhian's performance and fight scenes also established his skill at...
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