‘The Furious:’ Navin Brings Back the Everyman with Hands and No Military Training

When watching an action movie, tv show, or anime, I am hoping for one thing and one thing only: that somebody is going to be throwing hands. The Black Nerd Problems members know, if you suggesting any piece of media, if they dukes ain’t up at any point, don’t suggest it to Omar. If there isn’t physical violence, don’t tell Omar about it. If they ain’t doing real rap graps (wrestling), then it’s a wrap as far as I’m concerned. I love seeing fights and analyzing fight choreography, so when I heard the team that made The Raid was back with a new movie called The Furious? I. Was. Front. Row. In. Theaters. *Spoilers ahead* Off the strength, The Furious took hand to hand combat to heights it ain’t ever seen before in movies. The fight choreography was both gritty and clean. Wasn’t nothing nice or polite about how they were getting down. Yet, among all these characters going crazy with throwing them thangs, for me, it was the character Navin that held the film together. We’re introduced to Navin (Joe Taslim) as a journalist getting into the seedy underworld through disguises to bring down the children being forced into human trafficking and, hopefully, find his wife who was investigating the matter first. My favorite thing about Navin’s story was that his wife, Matia, was the one uncovering the story of the kids’ disappearance first.

Matia wasn’t a helpless wife. She kicks the movie off by taking it to these human traffickers something nasty. She was a great fighter that knew she …