The Furious Movie Review

The Furious may sound like a new Fast and Furious movie, but it's not. But at its core, it does have a theme. A family. So The Furious is a new Hong Kong produced martial arts film. The plot is proof that there's beauty in simplicity. And kick-ass martial arts. This little girl's kidnapped by child traffickers. Her father is on the quest to get her back. All the while, there's this other guy trying to find these child traffickers. So the two are like, hey, let's team up and get the job done. Have I said with kick-ass martial arts lately? Usually, I list the positives first. But I'm going to start out with the negatives because they are very brief. One, sometimes the ADR in this movie is off. ADR being when actors in a sound booth re-record their spoken lines of dialogue. And then those re-recorded lines get dubbed into the movie. And you might be thinking what I was thinking when I heard about the ADR in this movie before I saw the movie. Yeah, English dubbing over the spoken lines of dialogue from the country of origin for the film. But no, that's not the case here. This appeared to be English dubbed over spoken English. But it wasn't quite right. I would expect, I'm going to get her. I'm going with or without you. But this was more like, I'm going to get her. I'm going with or without you. Sometimes it looks fine. I was like, it looked like that actor said that thing. Other times, it did not. I don't know if they're trying to be tongue-in-cheek about it. Also, it didn't really bother me that much. You know, I'm kind of used to it. I'm just not used to it being English on English. And the blood. Sometimes the blood looked like blood to me. Other times I was like, that blood looks like CGI blood to me with capital C, G, and I. I've actually seen the comment in my comment section before. What does CGI stand for? That's computer generated imagery. That's it. Those are the things that stood out as negatives. The rest of the film, **** yeah. First of all, it's an easy quest to get behind the father trying to get his daughter back. Who's going to watch that setup and be like, meh, wasn't feeling it. But while you're rooting for this father on his quest to get his daughter back, you are treated with some kick-ass martial arts. Maybe that's why the off ADR didn't bother me. Because this film's true language is a physical one. That was perfectly executed. You even got a couple of raid alum in here. And I want to tell you actually who they are. I didn't expect one of them to be here. When I saw him, I was like, this dude's gonna do more than just shoot a bow and arrow. I mean, I think it's great that he's basically Hawkeye. But if he doesn't throw down, that'll be the biggest waste of this dude next to J.J. Abrams using him in Star Wars. Moving on. Yeah, point is, the fights in this movie are amazing. Thing is, though, this is what I like about it, is fights can be too clean. And sometimes, per the on-screen universe you're working with, it totally works. If you're a Jedi in Star Wars or you're in the Matrix, there's a story-based reason for the fights to look as clean as they do. The fights are framed up well. The choreography's great. Don't get me wrong there. But the fight choreography's scrappy enough to give it grit, to make it look like they're not actors who have practiced this choreography day in, day out. My favorite part of Breaking Bad is when Saul Goodman described the action in The Furious. Only the very best, with just the right amount of dirt. It made it feel real. It made the stakes feel higher. It felt like someone could die at any second. Granted, they don't necessarily die at any second, because they take some hits to a ridiculous degree. To a degree that could have come dangerously close to feeling slapstick. But it never did. People getting hit with hammers. Check. Cars. Check. The fights had video game energy in all the positive ways. Because when I say that, when people say that, like, oh, the movie felt like a video game, that definitely could be a negative, and it usually is. In this case, no. Good video game stuff. Couple of fights in here, I was like, this is the boss fight. It feels like the boss fight. Fight in particular at the end, I was like, and this is where he would not even have a life bar. How do you beat this guy? So many hits, man. I was like, they'd be in the hospital if they were a real person or in any other movie. But this is the video game in which every character has multiple life bars you gotta cook through before they're done. Every fight amazingly escalated, you know. At a point, you know that scene in Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man's Chest, where Will Turner, Jack Sparrow, and Norrington are fighting each other, but they are fighting each other. There were no teams. It was every man for himself. Every person was fighting two other people. Something like that happens in here, but a lot more intense. I'm not gonna lie. If I had seen this movie before I saw Disclosure Day, I'd probably be a little more scrutinous on Disclosure Day. This is the movie to absolutely see this weekend, no doubt. I mean, if you like kick-ass martial arts, that's action movie to an unbelievable yet fun degree. I have heard from different people, none of which know each other. It's just the common talking point, I guess. People are saying this is Taken meets The Raid. Yeah, I can get behind that. This is an epic martial arts action extravaganza bloodbath in all the fun ways. This is the kind of movie that makes me reflect on, I don't give enough of these out these days, and I should. Because The Furious is awesome-tacular. What can I say? This is the kind of kick-ass fun I go to movies for. All right, so The Furious. Have you seen it? What did you think about it? Or what's your favorite martial arts movie of the past five years? 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