The Furious (2025)

Wang Wei barely says a word in The Furious, and he’s the lucky one, because everybody else’s dialogue is clunky, stiff and sometimes badly dubbed. The plotting is goofy too, with a crooked police captain and a gang of kidnappers who mostly exist to stand around waiting to get hit. None of that matters once the fists fly. Xie Miao plays the quiet handyman hunting for his kidnapped daughter, and he fights like a man with a past. Joe Taslim’s Navin teams up with him only after they brawl first and ask questions later, the most relatable friendship of the year. Kenji Tanigaki turns a fight club, an ice factory and a police station into playgrounds where anything can be a weapon, a hammer included. It’s brutal, so not for younger kids. It made $41.8 million worldwide on a reported $20M. An 8.1 because the fights are the best in ages and the talking is just filler between them. $403 says you grab a hammer this weekend to hang one picture and catch yourself checking the doorway first.

What works: The fight choreography is wildly inventive, turning a fight club, an ice factory and a police station into set pieces where anything can be a weapon, and Xie Miao and Joe Taslim are great together.

What doesn’t: The dialogue is clunky and sometimes poorly dubbed, and the crooked police captain plot is goofy filler between fights.

Who it’s for: Fans of The Raid who rate action movies by how many times they gasped out loud.