**The Furious — The Kidnapping That Won’t Save Hollywood (Or Anyone Else)**

"Asian action cinema has spent decades serving as the antidote to Hollywood’s visual anemia, but The Furious feels like a lab experiment where someone tried to distill the purest DNA of The Raid with the hyperbolic choreography of classic Hong Kong—only to forget to inject a soul into the script. Kenji Tanigaki, the Japanese veteran director and choreographer trained in the ruthless school of Donnie Yen, arrives with an enviable résumé as a fight designer in gems like Sakra or the Rurouni Kenshin saga. Yet here, he proves once again that knowing how to coordinate millimeter-perfect impacts on screen doesn’t automatically make you a master of dramatic pacing.