The Furious
Directed by Kenji Tanigaki
After a criminal network kidnaps Wang Wei's daughter and the corrupt police refuse to assist him, Wei sets out on his own to locate her. Navin, a tenacious journalist whose wife has mysteriously vanished, is his only ally. In this explosive martial arts showdown, the unlikely duo fights the kidnappers ruthlessly driven by a furious vengeance. From TMDB
303 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 25, 2026 · last updated Oct 26, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
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| Bluesky * | 72 | 0 | 194 |
| Mastodon * | 4 | 1 | 24 |
| TMDB reviews * | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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Counted from the reviewers’ own 0–10 ratings on the 5 rated TMDB user reviews we collected (7–10 positive, 5–6 mixed, 0–4 negative), not by the AI.
Viewers praise the film's brutal, well-choreographed action sequences. [1][2][3] Some find the story thin and the acting poor. [4][5][6] A few reviewers call it a must-see for martial arts fans. [7][8][9]
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When action movies drop the deep philosophical stuff and just focus on raw human mechanics, the result is usually hit or miss, but The Furious definitely hits the mark. Directed by Kenji Tanigaki, the film is a brutal, primal survival trip that uses physical force and instinct to do all the talking. Instead of trying to reinvent the classic revenge story, the movie leans hard into the pure spectacle of movement. The …
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"The Furious" delivers a solid, adrenaline-fueled experience that focuses almost entirely on its high-stakes action sequences. The fight choreography is impressive, showcasing sharp, impactful movements that feel heavy and dangerous, largely thanks to the chemistry between Xie Miao and Joe Taslim. However, the film struggles when it tries to slow down, as the narrative is quite thin and the dialogue often feels like …
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This is a bad movie, btw. Do not fall for the reviews — I repeat, do not fall for them. If you’ve watched The Raid: Redemption, you’ll be even more disappointed by how scuffed this movie is. Not just the story, which is bad, but the acting from the entire cast is extremely poor (don’t even get me started). Even the main protagonist can barely act. It’s obvious he was only selected for his martial arts skills and …
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A few of my brain cells ended themselves The current 7+ rating is completely dishonest. The movie is beyond stupid. The whole movie has barely six and a half lines of dialogue, with the rest being brainless dancing (fighting). At one point, you start questioning why this is happening, why they are fighting, and what the objective is. The villains come and kill all the cops at the police station. Kidnapped children …
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finally watched The Furious last night (thanks to @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and everyone else who has been yelling about it) and holy hell the action in that movie is incredible, I was actually cackling during the final five man fight if you like martial arts movies you MUST see it immediately
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Critics, per Wikipedia
The Furious grossed $6.5 million in the United States and Canada. It also enjoyed solid success on the United States VOD market. Lionsgate Films stated that the film would be profitable for them. (Lionsgate subsequently hired Kenji Tanigaki to develop another film The Reckoner.) On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 98% of 153 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.4/10. The website's consensus reads: "The Furious detonates into a relentless, blood-soaked spectacle of breathtakingly inventive martial arts choreography, with director Kenji Tanigaki delivering a brutal, balletic action extravaganza." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film…
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Reactions
60 of 303 · most liked firstFinally saw "Wicked" and it's basically the same exact movie as "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift."
neutral · AI labelView post →Chronicles was produced in a time when The Matrix sequels and Lord of the Rings were the biggest things on the planet, Vin Diesel just came off Fast and the Furious and Universal wanted in on the sci-fi and fantasy boom, and they basically got cut a blank cheque to make this ridiculous movie!
neutral · AI labelView post →‘THE FURIOUS’ debuts with an A on CinemaScore. Incredibly rare score for an R-rated action film.
neutral · AI labelView post →In the next Fast and the Furious movie, they’re going to go back to stealing dvd players and TVs.
neutral · AI labelView post →THE FURIOUS is the greatest martial arts action movie I’ve ever seen
positive · AI labelView post →In today's Onion Film Standard, our film critic discusses Vin Diesel blowing off his hundreds of requests to hang out in his 'The Fast and the Furious' retrospective. youtu.be/mx0S88VnlUM
neutral · AI labelView post →They should do a Fast & The Furious movie where Dom is hitting the Nos on a submarine and it somehow ramps out of the ocean and over a sickass explosion
neutral · AI labelView post →This is something his character would say in The Fast and the Furious before Ludicrous makes fun of him for the rest of the movie
neutral · AI labelView post →The Fast and the Furious (Film: 2001, DVD: 2002)
neutral · AI labelView post →finally watched The Furious last night (thanks to @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and everyone else who has been yelling about it) and holy hell the action in that movie is incredible, I was actually cackling during the final five man fight if you like martial arts movies you MUST see it immediately
positive · AI labelView post →We have three ‘Pitch Perfect’ movies, seventy nine billion ‘Fast And The Furious’ films, 73 ‘SpiderMan’ remakes - and not one Robert Smalls movie. Hollywood (and the Streamers) - wake the fuck up.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just saw The Furious what a great kung fu film. It has domain expansion and yakuza style unconventional weapon fight scenes.
positive · AI labelView post →This movie is extremely bad, but bad in a way I forgive the Fast and the Furious franchise for being, so I wonder if the reason I can’t just let go and enjoy this shitty dinosaur movie is because we live in a world where the original Jurassic Park set the bar that Jurassic Park movies should be good
neutral · AI labelView post →letting myself be a little corny because this was the dopamine hit I needed today (i.e. Kenji Tanigaki sharing one of my letterboxd reviews of The Furious - plus about a thousand others, but STILL)
positive · AI labelView post →A few years ago, Kensuke Sonomura (action director of The Furious) and Ozawa made a hardboiled detective movie called Bad City. Ozawa bleached his hair and looks like an absolute monster.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sad that the bad air means I can’t stand outside and look wistfully at the skyline drinking a Corona like I’m Vin Diesel in a Fast and the Furious movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Furious is a bloody Hong Kong martial arts film that uses improvised weapons brilliantly. Chairs, tables, beer bottles, a decanter, barbed wire, bicycles. A huge guy uses an opponent's body as a pushbroom against other fighters. Hundreds of melons must've been stabbed & crushed in sound mixing.
positive · AI labelView post →Finally saw THE FURIOUS and that is some good stuff - anytime Yayan Ruhian is in a movie, you better watch it, pal
positive · AI labelView post →As you may have heard, THE FURIOUS (coming to American theaters this week) is a ten-star, 36-chamber, instant classic of imaginative violence. Maybe I should try not to overhype it, but I think if you like modern martial arts movies the artistry is undeniable.
positive · AI labelView post →We have three ‘Pitch Perfect’ movies, seventy nine billion ‘Fast And The Furious’ films, 73 ‘SpiderMan’ remakes - and not one Robert Smalls movie. Hollywood (and the Streamers) - wake the fuck up.
neutral · AI labelView post →damn, The Fast and The Furious is such a horny movie in such an early 2000s way
neutral · AI labelView post →THE FURIOUS is opening this week in North America and it's the best action film of the year, no contest, so you should absolutely 100% see it.
positive · AI labelView post →Good vibes protocols: Fatal Termination is a 1990 Hong Kong movie that features perhaps the single most shocking stunt sequence ever. Okay, maybe "good vibes" is the wrong term. Anyway, this sequence directly inspired a similar stunt in The 2026 action film The Furious.
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a review of THE FURIOUS in @sfchronicle.com that carries the writing credit "by Freelance." Who is this Freelance, I wonder? Could I talk to them? Is there a photo of them anywhere? What other pieces has Freelance written for you? www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
neutral · AI labelView post →I haven't seen The Furious, but I have seen a lot of other movies by the artists that made The Furious. Here's a quick guide that may also double as a history of 21st century East Asian action cinema. www.thechinesecinema.com/what-to-watc...
neutral · AI labelView post →it's too late for folks on the east coast but I just heard that The Furious is Regal's Monday Mystery Movie tonight
neutral · AI labelView post →DISCLOSURE DAY is good but it would be better if it was about people trying to disclose the existence of the movie THE FURIOUS. Will society be ready to handle it, etc.
neutral · AI labelView post →fun facts: 1) we are correct to hype The Furious, 2) the ice factory set piece is an homage to the Bruce Lee film The Big Boss (Lee's character works in one)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Furious is rolling along in theaters and blowing minds all over. A couple of weeks back, I met up with the great Joe Taslim and had a great conversation with him about the film, playing two Mortal Kombat icons, his life in Judo, and so much more www.menshealth.com/entertainmen...
neutral · AI labelView post →I really love how all my action movie friends are treating the release of THE FURIOUS like a monumental cultural event and a victory for our people.
positive · AI labelView post →Putting two different guns on the table in front of my friends being that I'm forcing them to watch Every Terminator Movie and Every Fast and The Furious Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Roger Corman owned the rights to the film title THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, and made a deal with Universal so he could use any of their stock footage for free after that. He kept the numbered sequel titles though, which is why none of TFATF movies are just TFATF2, 3, etc. and have odd names.
neutral · AI labelView post →I made a video about the lessons action films should take from THE FURIOUS. If you watch this, you will get 2% smarter or dumber: WATCH THE VIDEO: youtu.be/oSqsFDrJ-Ss?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Doing a guilty pleasure movie rewatch tonight. The Fast and the Furious. 🚗💨 Car go brrrr
neutral · AI labelView post →An incredible honor to sit down with the great Kenji Tanigaki to discuss his mind-melting new film, The Furious. You can read it below: inreviewonline.com/2026/06/11/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →There were things I enjoyed about THE FURIOUS, but in the final equation it was much less than the sum of its parts. A cold, sterile, off-putting film barely held together by its very strong action sequences and Yayan Ruhian's performance. www.patreon.com/scumbelievab...
neutral · AI labelView post →THE FURIOUS is the most 80s Hong Kong film since the 80s. Hilariously action-packed, goofy as heck, and gleefully violent. The climax, which is a jaw-dropping five-way fight, is beautifully exhausting.
positive · AI labelView post →JUST GOT OUT OF WATCHING THE FURIOUS AND BASICALLY? I BLEW CUM OUT MY WEEWEE ALL OVER THE FUCKIN PROJECTOR SCRREN BEAST FUXKING MEDIA. LEGENDARY SHIT FOR REAL MOVIE WATCHERS
positive · AI labelView post →"The Furious" sounds like the third greatest movie ever made www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t think we’ll see a better action movie this year than Kenji Tanigaki’s brutal yet beautiful fighting extravaganza: THE FURIOUS. My review [gift link]
positive · AI labelView post →‘The Furious’ Is The Most Inventive Action Film This Year joysauce.com/the-furious-...
neutral · AI labelView post →my review of The Furious letterboxd.com/peevish/film...
neutral · AI labelView post →receiving intel that Beyond Fest is also doing another LA screening of The Furious with "very special guests" 👀
neutral · AI labelView post →I've noticed after watching the fast & the furious movies over again that they aren't about cars anymore except The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift was. I still think they should have went on with the second movie as planned but still don't get why they decided not to make the second movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just a reminder in the first Fast and the Furious movie they were ripping off DVD players in Honda Civics, in the ninth movie they went to space in a Pontiac Fiero. If that isn't JRPG progression I don't know what is.
neutral · AI labelView post →lot of writing this week, so let me reiterate: The Furious (a wonderful movie) has two guys hitting each other with entire bicycles www.avclub.com/the-furious-...
positive · AI labelView post →This movie is sort of like if you made a clips reel of iconic, memetic scenes from previous Jurassic Park movies intercut with a Fast and the Furious movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →it occurs to me "superhero fatigue" was maybe a handy term for the homogenization of the blockbuster, like how even stuff like the Fast & the Furious or The Mummy felt basically indistinguishable from a superhero film
neutral · AI labelView post →Firstborn is due any day now. Accordingly, Clare and I are getting into the “family spirit” by watching every Fast and the Furious movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved this movie. When they drifted the battleship like Fast and the Furious - one of the all time great moments on film.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Furious? more like THE GLORIOUS I'm gonna be thinking about this movie for a long time
positive · AI labelView post →I might go without eating for 48 hours before watching this movie. That way I can think about the fast and The Furious at the same time.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie review: 'The Furious' pioneers inventive, brutal martial arts #UPI
neutral · AI labelView post →Eudora Welty was alive for the first "The Fast and the Furious" movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →THE FURIOUS (2025) Streaming: July 14, 2026 PVOD (Apple, Amazon, Fandango at Home, etc.) #TheFurious whentostream.com/action-epic-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Um, yep, THE FURIOUS is movie of the year.
positive · AI labelView post →THE FURIOUS! I wanted this for @offscreenff.bsky.social (though it's not strictly an Offscreen kind of film) but it wasn't to be. Kidnapped kid = that's the plot. Trailer makes it look brutal, but MVP is fight choreography which you don't see that much of here: INCREDIBLE. Best since THE RAID!
positive · AI labelView post →THE FURIOUS is the best action film of the year. No contest. letterboxd.com/justindeclou...
positive · AI labelView post →Our latest Action Desk feature is inspired by a thread over on Twitter about Joe Taslim’s judo in THE FURIOUS. So I asked him, Tanigaki, Le, Ruhian and Xie Miao about fighting styles in the movie. Tough to beat Brian Le saying an angry baby was his physical inspo news.rsclfilms.com/the-furious-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Kenji Tanigaki’s The Furious is astonishing. I’ve been desperate for a film that moves fight choreo forward and I can honestly say, I’ve never seen anything like the way bodies move, collide and stack atop one another in this. It’s like Kensuke Sonomura unearthed a new element.
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