Tiger hunters don't touch the tiger cubs. They say they incite anger in the mother tiger making her so vicious. This is what happened here in Furie.
A Vietnamese film recently shown in Netflix. A doting and loving mother to her child, raising her on her own. The movie shows a great deal of character building especially on the mother with some focus on her daughter. Living in a province out of Saigon might lead you to a boring everyday life, but this mother has a colorful character on her own.
Who would have thought a pretty face hides a deadly martial arts skills that can rival Ong Bak? This skill is something interesting and make you wonder how could she have mastered this? Hold that thought and we will get back to it.
Now the boring or rather interesting life she comes in, then is shaken by the kidnapping of her daughter. At first you will see it as a revenge act upon her for something she did in that provincial setting, but surprisingly, it was far much larger.
Her daughter's kidnapping was a victim of an international child abduction scheme that takes her all the way to Saigon. Was it something of a coincidence or was precipitated by that revenge act thing, this we don't know as it was vague while we were watching.
A loving mother turns vicious as she goes after her daughter in Saigon. A life very much different from the province they were in earlier. Now the back stories come in. In Saigon she was a former gang leader thus the martial arts skills she got and her tenacity. She also had or have a family in Saigon. She was a prodigal daughter. Now the plot thickens with a lot of back stories plus the fact it moved forward as she goes after the kidnapping gangs minions all the way to the Big Boss.
It was like watching my kids play video games, where you fight a lot of bad guys with the Big Boss as your final battle. Picture that and replace that character with the lead Veronica Ngo. She was great in this film and I love watching her fight. With every punches she receives, she gives back twice.
This was a great film to watch and how slim the story is, it was endearing and entertaining at the same time. What we noticed was, with a lot of people trying to kill her, we noticed she only killed one person. Knives and guns were present but everyone survives except one. Funny fact but I got to write that one in here.
Currently showing in Netflix, and is trending as of the moment. Catch this one, as seldom do we find an Asian film worth watching.
