'The Raid 2' Instant Commentary: Gareth Evans Makes a Kicking Car Chase

As seen in “The Raid,” writer-director-editor-action choreographer Gareth Evans makes some of the most vital, fist-pumping, heart-pounding fight sequences around.

Now imagine what he can do with a car chase.

Stop your imagining right there, because in “The Raid 2,” the Welshman (who tends to work in Indonesia) ups his already game-changing game by delivering one of the most riveting car chases in recent history.

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Yes, we saw “Fast & Furious 6.” And while those films offer their own brand of radical stunt driving, this car chase is completely different than anything we’ve seen before.

Part of what makes this scene unique is that Evans created his spectacle on a fraction of the budget.

"We’re on a much lower budget than your average ‘Fast & Furious’-type movie, where they can just smash cars left, right, and center, and go through six or seven cars in 10 seconds," Evans tells us in the Instant Commentary clip above, which details the climax of the car chase. "I had six or seven cars to last me for the entire sequence, which runs for about seven minutes."

So Evans had to get creative. Interestingly enough, he did so by employing the same philosophy Evans applies to his fight choreography.

"We wanted to play on the idea of these cars being part of their own choreography," says Evans. "So the way they interact with each other, the way they bump against each other, it’s the same way as a block or a kick in a martial arts sequence."

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If you’ve seen the martial arts sequences in “The Raid,” you know Evans set a high-flying standard, which soars ever higher in the sequel.

And if you haven’t seen Evans’s work, what are you waiting for?

”The Raid 2" expands nationwide this weekend.

See Gareth Evans’s “The Raid 2” theatrical trailer: