The Furious

The best martial arts movie I’ve seen this decade.

ChrisStuckmann

When a mute man (Xie Miao) witnesses his daughter get kidnapped off the street, he teams up with a hard-boiled cop (Joe Taslim) to take on every baddie in the world to save her. THE FURIOUS is the thing you dream of when you imagine the ideal 80's Hong Kong Action Film:…

Justin Decloux

SPL: Kill Zone, The Raid and The Night Comes for Us (featuring stunt actors from one or more) all rolled into one relentless machine of pure fighting choreographer wet dream mayhem. Some of the most complex and creative multi-combatant, multi-platform, multi-weapon staging…

Josh Lewis

THE FURIOUS stumbles with questionable storytelling choices, an anticlimactic ending, and English dialogue so clunky it’s laughable…but let’s be real, that’s not why we’re here. We’re here for the action and GODDAMN!!! The fight choreography is out of this world, top-tier…

Matt Neglia

Hier wird sich gegenseitig so viel geschenkt wie bei uns daheim an Ostern, nämlich nix.  Extrem brachiale und übersichtlich inszenierte Action-Choreographie, die man in dieser Form, Fülle und Finesse bislang selten gesehen hat - und dazu noch Yayan Ruhian als Killer mit…

Tino Hahn

TIFF 2025 #21: Midnight Madness (World Premiere) With every new action scene The Furious throws at you, it seems to one-up the previous one every chance it gets. Given the fact that this movie is directed by none other than Kenji Tanigaki, it only seems like this is his…

Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸

All major action films have one thing in common: to make history, they must provoke and challenge the spectator’s disbelief; they must embrace a new aesthetic of astonishment. This was true of Buster Keaton’s films as well as Jackie Chan’s. This was true of the Thai…

HeadExposure

Several of Tanigaki’s films (his choreography on Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In and his stunts work on Raging Fire) have appears in my column, along with quite a few films from stunt coordinator Kensuke Sonomura (his stunts choreo on Baby Assassins trilogy and his…

Robert Daniels

This was a wild ride from start to finish. I’m so impressed with actors who can use their bodies like this to make compelling films with amazing, nonstop choreography. It’s gas pedal to the floor, unrelenting violence. The plot is very similar to taken and the dialogue is…

Daniel Film Therapy