Movie · 2026 · Action, Crime · 1h 53m · R · English
Curator score: 8.4/10 (49.7K ratings)
To save their loved ones, they will fight everyone.
Overview
After Wang Wei's daughter is kidnapped by a criminal network and he receives no help from the corrupt police, Wei sets out to find her himself. His only ally is Navin, a relentless journalist whose wife has mysteriously disappeared. Fueled by a furious vengeance, the unlikely duo ruthlessly battle the kidnappers in this explosive martial arts showdown.
Ratings
Curator score: 8.4/10
IMDb: 7.9/10
Letterboxd: 3.86/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 98%
Metacritic: 87
TMDB: 8.0/10
Director
Kenji Tanigaki
Production
Edko Films, XYZ Films, Zhejiang Hengdian Film Production, Lionsgate
Cast
Xie Miao, Joe Taslim, Yang Enyou, Yayan Ruhian, JeeJa Yanin, Brian Le, Joey Iwanaga, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Manatsanun Panlertwongskul, Kittiphoom Wongpentak, Winai Wiangyangkung, Sahatchai Chumrum, Marut Charoensub, Sornchai Chatwiriyachai, Chayanith Riddhimat, Tanapol Chuksrida, Kittiphoom Wongpentak, Mimi Chu Mai-Mai, Guo Junqing, Shan Tam
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 (3.5★) · 1951 likes
Movie got me so hype I beat tf out of the first person I saw leaving the theater
Sean Fennessey · 1182 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.
⋆˚࿔ abigail 𝜗𝜚˚⋆ (4.5★) · 836 likes
really impressed by everyone’s ability to live that long
sixxthirty (4★) · 774 likes
this movie is just aggressive ASMR bone cracking
Edwin 🦦 (4★) · 642 likes
I’m not someone who watches a ton of action movies, so maybe that’s part of why The Furious hit me so hard, but I genuinely felt like I was watching something new. Most fight scenes I’ve watched in other movies eventually blur together after a while. This felt completely different though. The bodies here merge and collapse into each other, reshaping themselves mid-motion like watching gravity pull people together and throw them apart again. Fighters slide over shoulders, weave through… more I’m not someone who watches a ton of action movies, so maybe that’s part of why The Furious hit me so hard, but I genuinely felt like I was watching something new. Most fight scenes I’ve watched in other movies eventually blur together after a while. This felt completely different though. The bodies here merge and collapse into each other, reshaping themselves mid-motion like watching gravity pull people together and throw them apart again. Fighters slide over shoulders, weave through… more
2008 · Drama, Action, History · 1h 46m · R · Curator 7.3/10 (365.6K ratings) · Where to watch: Hulu, fuboTV, Peacock Premium, FlixFling, Hi-YAH, Peacock Premium Plus
A more classical martial arts drama, but with crisp choreography and righteous momentum.