FURIES (2022)

 

Directed By: Veronica Ngo  Written By: Veronica Ngo, Nha Uyen Ly Nguyen, Nguyen Truong Nhan, Ngu Yen Ngoc Thach and Aaron Toronto Cinematography: Phunam Editor: Nguyen Cong Dang

Cast: Dong Anh Quynh, Toc Tien, Thuan Nguyen, Rima Thanh, Song Luan, Gi A Nguyen, Thanh Nhien Phan 

A mysterious woman trains a trio of girls to take revenge on a criminal gang that abuses females. The three lady warriors risk everything to challenge this corrupt empire.

This film could have almost been nicknamed GET ‘EM GIRLS. 

Now this film doesn’t reinvent the wheel. As it pretty much is predictable and you have seen it before. It does offer excitement as you watch it and tries to provide some twists and turns of its own.

This is the first female action-oriented film that I have truly been impressed by since CHOCOLATE. This film offers female action heroes and feels like a mixture of a revenge tale with parts of  CHARLIE’S ANGELS & GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE. Though luckily without as much humor as those films and less gunplay. As there are guns involved but this is more hand-to-hand combat with machetes and steel pipes. Think DAREDEVIL, the series' action scenes.

So the film is a bit more vicious than expected. 

The third act of the film feels like a video game with a henchman who looks like he came out of one. This goes along with the cartoonish main villain whose real danger is the threat from those who follow him in force.

Other than actually being a dangerous fighter on his own. Where the audience questions why they follow him in the first place then.

It even offers some drama just to up the stakes and meaning In These fight scenes.

The film is well-directed and has a danger to it. Like the other films I compared it to, it has a little gloss and lots of filtered and neon lighting. That leaves the film with plenty of styles. 

Grade: B-