The Furious movie review: Kenji Tanigaki delivers a taut actioner | Movie-review News
3 min readJun 19, 2026 05:55 PM IST The Furious movie review: Hell hath no fury like a father scorned in The Furious – certainly not fury as taut, economical and razor-sharp as this film. Presumably, hell also involves a lot more chit-chat. The Furious dispenses with dialogue too; why waste your breath when you will need every ounce for the next tackle? A much-celebrated action choreographer, director Kenji Tanigaki knows that all he needs is a skeletal story with an emotional tug (in this case, kidnapped children) to set his two action stars, Miao Xe as Wang, and Joe Taslim as Navin, on a mission. Once that machine starts, it barely takes a pause. Four people are credited as writers, and at the very least they ensure that we don’t raise too many questions about where exactly all the action is happening (“Somewhere in Southeast Asia”, says the film), and why are more people not noticing Wang racing down streets bleeding and barefeet behind a pick-up truck or his daughter (Rainy, played by Enyou …
