Kenji Tanigaki already proved he knows action to me because of his stunt choreography work on “Blade II” back in 2002. More than 20 years later, he proves it again.
In the case of “The Furious,” Tanigaki sat in the director’s chair, helming a picture centered on two angry men on a mission. Xie Miao stars as Wang Wei, a mute tradesman who sets off on a mission to rescue his daughter who’s been kidnapped. Though he appears as just an ordinary blue-collar worker, he soon shows he is highly skilled in martial arts.
Navin (Joe Taslim), meanwhile, is a journalist whose wife, another reporter, went missing investigating reports of child trafficking. He’s now following up on what she found, and meets up with Wang. Together, they embark on a mission to stop the syndicate and rescue their loved ones.
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