Furies

This is an action movie that does very little to build the characters, outside of the main girl and her boss. But this action movie makes up for it by actually having a lot of really great action, and I'm a sucker for that shit. Characterization be damned so long as the action isn't uninspired and bland. But I do give credit to how this is shot. It's colourful but the colours are dingy, and I really like the opening scene. Plus, this movie frames smoking perfectly and makes it look cool.

C'est une origin story qui n'apporte pas grand chose, et qui vient ternir un peu l'image que l'on avait du personnage principal de Furie. La scène finale est implicite, mais apporte une excellente perspective. Du bon et du mauvais. Certaines chorégraphies sont très réussies, d'autres inutilement rallongées, avec trop de CGI.

The fights work just as well as in the first movie, but the story is convoluted and messy and drag the film into unnecessary prequel territory.

This is a weird film that has a seething hatred of men, portraying them as absolute monsters of human beings. The trauma the women faced is given a lot of weight, but the lofty dialog was hard to take seriously and the film could have made better use of levity. The action scenes are competently choreographed but they had zero psychology being too one-sided and the film could REALLY do more with its visual style. Every fight scene having so many close-up shots gets pretty tiring to watch.

The action is pretty impressive at times and there is certainly a ton of emotion tying these characters together, but the effects are pretty inconsistent and the characters are a little too over the top. Still, a solid action revenge piece with an admittedly effective twist.