Get knocked out by the innovative fighting style of 'The Furious,' the future of action cinema
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- The action scenes in Kenji Tanigaki’s “The Furious” are like nothing else in the multiplex.
- (Although after decades of popularizing advancements in fisticuffs, he’s earned the right to relax.)
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The action scenes in Kenji Tanigaki’s “The Furious” are like nothing else in the multiplex. Imagine combat choreographed by ants, swarms of elbows and legs scrabbling to emerge victorious. Churning piles of knees that hook and trip. A man swinging a ball-peen hammer at an incoming horde of baddies, knocking each unconscious as he scales their heaped bodies like a cheerleading pyramid.
Meet the next Asian film fighting style that will clobber Hollywood slap-happy just as Hong Kong wire-fu spawned “The Matrix” and Indonesia’s “The Raid” begot “John Wick.” In five years, Keanu Reaves will be brawling like this. (Although after decades of popularizing advancements in fisticuffs, he’s earned the right to relax.)