New action film wey dem call ‘The Furious’ don burst onto the scene with 99% Rotten Tomatoes score from 83 critics and 96% audience score. Di movie, wey be hardcore martial arts film, dey compared to classic ‘The Raid’ from 2011.
Di story follow one man wey dem kidnap im daughter. Corrupt police no gree help am, so im join with journalist wey im wife don disappear. Di two of them go on rampage against di kidnappers to find dia missing loved ones.
Di director na Kenji Tanigaki, wey don work as stuntman for over 50 films. Di stars include Joe Taslim, wey be former judo champion and actor for ‘Mortal Kombat‘ and ‘The Raid: Redemption’. Miao Xie, wey don appear for 28 movies since 2020, dey lead di film. Yayan Ruhian, wey we see for ‘John Wick: Chapter 3’ and ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, dey inside too.
Joe Taslim tok about im training for di movie. Im say im train for three months before shooting, focusing on endurance and stamina. ‘I run at elevation on treadmill, practicing to be strong so I can shoot twelve hours nonstop,’ im tok.
Im character dey smoke chain throughout di film, but Taslim say na acting. ‘I want my character in the fights to show he is not fit. He’s a chain smoker. He’s under a lot of stress,’ im explain.
Di action for di film dey raw and messy, no be clean like old-school Hong Kong. Taslim say, ‘That’s how I believe action should be. Every single fight in real life, there’s nothing composed about it.’
One of di hardest scenes na di five-way fight at di end. Taslim tok, ‘When you’re fighting one-on-one, it’s all about chemistry. But when you’re doing five-way fight, you need to understand four of them at the same time.’
Di film get budget of only $20 million and dey go against heavy hitters like ‘Obsession’, ‘Scary Movie’, ‘Masters of the Universe’, ‘Backrooms‘, and Steven Spielberg‘s ‘Disclosure Day‘. But critics dey call ‘The Furious’ an instant classic.
