22/11/2025
🎬 The Raid 3: Final Ascent (2025)
Starring: Iko Uwais, Scott Adkins
🔪 “When there’s nowhere left to run… you fight your way up.”
📖 Overview
The Raid 3: Final Ascent (2025) brings the legendary Indonesian action franchise back with brutal intensity and a larger international scope. Set several years after the events of The Raid 2, Rama (Iko Uwais) has disappeared into hiding, hoping to leave the world of criminal empires behind. But when a new, hyper-violent syndicate rises and begins targeting his family, he is pulled back into the fight he never wanted.
Scott Adkins joins the franchise as Mason Drake, a deadly British enforcer brought in by the syndicate to eliminate anyone who stands in their way. Skilled, relentless, and with a code forged in blood, Mason becomes Rama’s most dangerous and evenly matched opponent yet.
The story centers on a colossal multi-level fortress controlled by the syndicate—an industrial tower turned into a labyrinth of killers, traps, and underground arenas. Rama, forced into an impossible mission, must climb level by level, facing elite fighters, corrupt soldiers, and Mason himself in a series of escalating confrontations.
With bone-shattering choreography, tight hallways, weapon-based combat, and punishing 1v1 duels, Final Ascent pushes the franchise to its darkest, most intense chapter.
🔥 Highlights
Iko Uwais returns with unmatched precision and emotional depth, delivering some of the most brutal martial arts choreography of his career.
Scott Adkins is a powerhouse antagonist—fast, vicious, and perfectly matched to Rama’s style. Their fights are franchise-defining.
Non-stop close-quarters combat: stairwells, boiler rooms, dark tunnels, collapsing floors, and a rooftop finale.
A grittier, more cinematic aesthetic while keeping the raw, grounded violence The Raid is known for.
A deeper emotional arc for Rama, exploring trauma, loyalty, and the cost of survival.
📝 Final Verdict
⭐ 9.1/10
The Raid 3: Final Ascent is a blistering, relentless return to the top tier of action cinema. With Iko Uwais at his peak and Scott Adkins delivering one of his best villain roles, the film stands as a triumphant, brutally satisfying conclusion to the trilogy.
💬 “To free himself… he must rise through hell.”
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