The Furious (2025)

I was waiting to see this every since I saw the trailer back in March 2026. It was released in US theaters this weekend. The movie was so good . Reminded me of old Hong Kong action flicks. Shout out to Director Tanigaki Kenji and the stunt work team.

The actors were absolutley fantastic, especially Xie Miao (must see more with him) as the mute father searching for his abducted daughter. Joe Taslim, as the investigative reporter searching for the truth aboust missing children and his wife and Yang Enyou who played Rainy the daughter of Xie Miao. She was so good as the daughter fighting to survive the abductors. As far as villians go, Iwanaga Joey was excellent. He went from mild mannered office worker to psycho with believable ease!! I also liked Yayan Ruhian, as the knife wielding, arrow shooting henchman of Iwanaga Joey's character.

There are some great fight sequences and fight choreogrpahy but there were some scenes that I thought they moved thru way too fast and were not as crisps as I like.

6/14/26

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I've been looking forward to this movie, ever since I found out that Xie Miao had starred in this movie through mentions on Jet Li's social media.

If you had grown up with a lot of HK/Chinese action movies featuring Jet LI, you most certainly would come to know about Xie Miao... who played the role of Jet Li's son in two movies. And this time, Xie Miao would also take the role of a father for the first time in this movie.

The Furious tells the story of a father, Wang Wei, who suddenly had to take desperate action to save his daughter after she was suddenly kidnapped by a human trafficking gang. And while tracking the whereabouts of the kidnappers, Wang Wei came to meet with Navin (played by Joe Taslim), who was also going after the gang in order to find his missing wife, who happened to be investigating the human traffickers as a journalist. The story is simple enough to understand: two men had their loved ones taken away from them, and by the sheer will of their own desperation and anger... they strive to recover and save their loved ones from that danger.

The action scenes were quite intense from start to end, and if you're a fan of old HK action movies... you'll have your attention hooked on from start to finish. Some people would argue that a few of the action scenes don't make sense, like... how could someone get back up so fast after being hit by a truck or a huge boulder of a man, but you'd be surprised by what a human body could do under adrenaline. And something people may miss about this movie; because unlike usual action flicks, the fighting power of the characters in this movie was more or less equal, thus what gives one the extra boost is their rage and fury... which was the core theme of this movie. Some would say that they'd want to see more of the story behind the main characters, but... in the end, does it really matter for us to find out the true identity of this mute man who appeared to be very good at fighting? In the end, he was still just a father who would give everything he had to save his daughter from bad people.

For fans of HK actions movies, The Furious pays homage to quite a number of past titles... notably Fist of Legend, in which director Tanigaki Kenji once appeared as an extra, as well as some tribute to Xie Miao's earlier works like New Legend of Shaolin, My Father is a Hero... and even Eye to Eye 2, in which Yang Enyou also starred as a sort of daughter-like character to Xie Miao's character. For fans of those other works... as well as past works of the rest of the cast, it would also be a great experience to spot any references from those works inside The Furious. All in all, The Furious really paved the way to a new genre of HK action movie, or extreme kungfu genre.

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