The Furious (2025)

Si vous voulez rire, regardez.

Honnêtement, si je n’avais pas payé ma place de cinéma, je pense que je serais clairement partie au bout de 15 minutes de film.

L’histoire en elle-même avait un sens et, si on avait suivi le fil conducteur, ça aurait pu être assez cool et émouvant… Seulement, c’était ridicule.

Entre les personnages qui se prennent 20 coups de couteau sans jamais mourir, les enfants qui se font frapper et transpercer la jambe par une flèche sans montrer aucun signe de douleur, ou encore le gars qui se prend 10 coups de marteau dans le crâne sans mourir pour réapparaître à la fin du film, ce film était inutile.

Certains combats étaient assez cool et bien construits, mais pour la majorité, on aurait dit une danse répétée. Trop de sang là où il n’en faut pas, et pas assez quand, justement, il en faut.

Sans parler des scènes absurdes où les personnages deviennent subitement fous, à arracher le doigt de l’un ou à mordre un autre au cou… Et ne parlons même pas des musiques de fond qui n’ont rien à voir avec les scènes en question.

J’ai encore beaucoup de choses à dire, mais je vais m’arrêter là.

Le fin mot de cette critique, c’est que je ne recommande ce film si vous voulez rire de l’absurdité des scènes (certaines étaient hilarantes😌).

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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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