As he accompanies Uco on minor missions to shake down local pornographers and the like, Rama/Yuda keeps silent tabs on the fiery young don-in-waiting, who’s increasingly impatient with his father’s deferential, keep-the-peace attitude toward the rival Japanese Goto family.
Uco gets out a while later, but it’s a full two years before Rama (now calling himself Yuda) is released, at which point he’s cautiously welcomed into Bangun’s employ. His superior forces him undercover, where Rama is to infiltrate one of Jakarta’s major crime families, gather information about the crooked cops on their payroll, and possibly settle a personal score with a limping but lethal baddie named Bejo (Alex Abbad).Īnd so Rama gets himself thrown in prison, where, after distinguishing himself in the first major setpiece - a satisfyingly visceral knock-down, drag-out brawl that finds inmates and police clashing in a muddy courtyard - he succeeds in earning the trust and respect of fellow prisoner Uco (Arifin Putra), the handsome, hotheaded son of formidable crime boss Bangun (Tio Pakusadewo). Having somehow made it out of “Redemption’s” house of horrors alive, kick-ass cop Rama ( Iko Uwais) soon learns his defeated opponents were merely pawns in a much bigger game, and he’ll have to disappear in order to avoid further persecution, and protect his wife and infant son. To the likely chagrin of some viewers, this time you actually have to pay a modicum of attention to the plot, a testosterone-driven tale of undercover cops and gang turf wars that crosses the existential despair of the “Infernal Affairs” trilogy with the brooding nihilism of a Takeshi Kitano yakuza picture.
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