What Happened To This Dude's Heart Rate While Watching The Raid 2? — cinemablend.com

A Reddit user used their new heart rate monitor to see just how much their heart rate would change during a viewing of The Raid 2, and as you can see below, the film had quite an interesting effect on his heart rate: Luckily enough, someone shared that final fight from The Raid 2 on YouTube, and you can watch it in all of its glory, despite a couple of glitches, below. What is it about fight scenes like those in The Raid 2 that raise our heart rates? Well, for starters, the fight choreography that starts the final fight is full of a lot of close calls for the protagonist. In particular, that masterful sequence where Hammer Girl pounds her hammers towards Rama at 01:15 is a perfect example of thrilling close calls that inspire a racing pulse. This softens the audience up for when the actual physical blows and the gore start to come into play - moments that could be responsible for the spikes in heart rate activity. Think about that next time you watch a neck snap.

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