A hard-charging martial arts revenge thriller with standout choreography, inventive fight geography, and enough emotional drive to keep the violence from feeling empty. The plot is familiar, but the execution sounds unusually ferocious and crowd-pleasing.
The Furious
Where to watch: Buy
Movie · Action · Crime
Wed · 1h 54m
Director: Kenji Tanigaki
Starring: Xie Miao, Joe Taslim, Yang Enyou
Overview
After a criminal network kidnaps Wang Wei's daughter and the corrupt police refuse to assist him, Wei sets out on his own to locate her. Navin, a tenacious journalist whose wife has mysteriously vanished, is his only ally. In this explosive martial arts showdown, the unlikely duo fights the kidnappers ruthlessly driven by a furious vengeance.
Director
Kenji Tanigaki
Cast
Xie Miao, Joe Taslim, Yang Enyou
Curator Review
Verdict
A hard-charging martial arts revenge thriller with standout choreography, inventive fight geography, and enough emotional drive to keep the violence from feeling empty. The plot is familiar, but the execution sounds unusually ferocious and crowd-pleasing.
Best for
martial arts fans
viewers who want inventive hand-to-hand action
fans of revenge thrillers
audiences who like brutal but playful fight choreography
people seeking a big-screen adrenaline movie
Skip if
you want a subtle or dialogue-driven crime story
graphic violence and bone-crunching combat put you off
you prefer grounded realism over heightened action
you need a deeply original plot
Overview
The Furious looks built to do one thing exceptionally well: turn a familiar kidnapping-revenge setup into a showcase for ferocious martial arts craft. The response from viewers points to a film that keeps escalating its set pieces with real imagination, especially in the way bodies collide, tangle, and improvise through space. That kind of physical storytelling is the main attraction here, and it sounds like the movie knows it.
Worth noting
What makes it more than a simple bruiser is the sense of rhythm and personality in the action. The best reactions emphasize not just impact, but invention: clumsy desperation, humor, and precision all coexisting inside the fights. That suggests a film in the lineage of modern action classics that treat choreography as the drama itself.
Bottom line
The story may be familiar, and the corruption-and-kidnapping framework is mostly there to fuel the next confrontation, but that is hardly a drawback if the goal is pure kinetic cinema. For viewers who want a theatrical action movie that earns its hype through movement, escalation, and sheer physical audacity, this sounds like a strong recommendation.
Top Letterboxd reviews
Framesofnick (4★) · 6137 likes
Movie got me so hype I beat tf out of the first person I saw leaving the theater
⋆˚࿔ abigail 𝜗𝜚˚⋆ (4.5★) · 2837 likes
really impressed by everyone’s ability to live that long
Sean Fennessey (4★) · 2421 likes
Deliriously fun. If not a new fight classic, contains at least three sequences that go in the pantheon. Whole theater was howling on a Friday afternoon.
Thomas Flight · 1606 likes
You know exactly what kind of movie you're watching when bro gets absolutely clocked by a truck in the first set piece, walks it off, sticks his limbs in some ice water, and is ready to go harder than ever in the next scene.
zoë rose bryant (4★) · 1519 likes
my dad sold this to me as “sound of freedom if it starred john wick instead of jim caviezel” and i said say no more