Over the last decade and change, international markets have asserted dominance over the action genre. The Raid: Redemption, RRR, and The Night Comes for Us blew away American audiences accustomed to ...
The new movie is packed with showstopping action, but one standout sequence has our hero rolling over a pyramid of henchmen. Here’s what it took. Credit...Lionsgate. Illustration by The New York Times ...
While the premise of “The Furious” is simple — a father named Wang Wei (Xie Miao) must find his daughter after she is kidnapped by a child trafficking ring — it’s the springboard for a nonstop flurry ...
Even obvious flaws will likely be treasured by fans of Kenji Tanigaki's slimly plotted but action-crammed kidnapping thriller, which looks on track to become a genre standard-bearer. If Chinese ...
The Furious tells a threadbare story that could have been sketched on a napkin. It lacks a single fully developed character. It is so emotionally hollow that you will feel little, even when children ...
In the earliest, earliest days of cinema, the camera wasn’t pointed at actors living imaginary lives; it was pointed at real human beings doing real human things. They walked home from work, they got ...
Xie Miao and Joe Taslim kick butt and take names in Kenji Tanigaki’s Asian action extravaganza. By Robert Daniels When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we ...
The multi-billion dollar Fast and Furious franchise started rather humbly 25 years ago with The Fast and the Furious, an action film about illegal street racing, an undercover cop with a crush, and a ...
Roller coasters are about to get a touch of family with this summer's opening of the much-anticipated Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift at Universal Studios Hollywood, and at IGN Live today, we debuted ...