Once upon a time, we watched Chow Yun Fat Acted, John Woo Directed flicks, and those typical Cantonese Style Action Packed Movies! Remember The Killer (‘89)? One of my favourite! Before that, those Kung-Fu fights flicks’ watched in the School Days. From Jackie Chan to Jet Lee, and then, to Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo, to, Jean Claude Van Damme’s Hard Target (again one of my favourite). The anticipated Genre always delivered! Just like in those School Days when I watched Endless Love (‘81) of the Romantic Genre because of, and for, the character JADE in it.
Moving on, The Matrix came which altered the aesthetics of The Action Genre. Then, M.I. – 2 (one of my all-time favourite), which added cherry on top of the cake. And then, there was Tom Yum Goong!
Then I thought, this may the extent to which the action genre can be stretched.
But one day, they introduced Rama’s The RAID (‘11), and then, The RAID 2 (‘14). Excellent execution of No-Guns fights, that Refined the already defined Action Genre!
Time passed, and again I thought, that was the top, Action Genre can reach. But, in between John Wick & The Expendables Series came, which added new flavours to the action genre. You know, in Sci-Fi and Action, we’ve seen the exponential rise in the Quality, but ne’er in the Romantic flicks. I’m still stuck with the character JADE of Endless Love (‘81)!
So, after John Wick, I once again had a thought, as now what else is left in the Action Genre! But then came -> The Furious. I watched it couple of days back, and, I was stunned with the Action. Just look at the execution in the end! It is so difficult to manage when 5 individuals are fighting with each other, giving one of the most perfect executions.
The Furious passes the litmus test of a Novel kind of Action Genre. I went to watch novel kind of Action entertainment, and I found what I went for! The story we’ve already seen and heard, like in The Taken, BUT, the Actions, this is a new addition to the Genre! We might have to wait for some more years before more novel things are added to this.
The Furious is an Addition, NOT a Repetition!
All said and done, a good watch!😊
© Pranav Chaturvedi