1 of 5 | Top to bottom, Joey Iwanaga, Joe Taslim and Yayan Ruhian pile up in "The Furious," in theaters Friday. Photo courtesy of Lionsgate
LOS ANGELES, June 8 (UPI) -- The Furious, in theaters Friday, brings a new vision to martial arts movies. Established martial artists converge to bring something unique to the screen, while still satisfying in the kicking department.
Matia (JeeJa Yanin) investigates a child kidnapping ring after calling her husband, Navin (Joe Taslim) on the phone. She is unable to rescue the children, so when Wang Wei's (Xie Miao) daughter, Rainy (Yang Enyou) is kidnapped, he comes looking.
Wang interrupts Navin's investigation of Matia's disappearance, so they team up to find Matia and Rainy.
Taslim is an Indonesian martial artist from The Raid and The Night Comes For Us, who parlayed that into roles in Mortal Kombat and The Fast and the Furious 6. Xie is a Hong Kong martial artist who began his career as a child actor playing Jet Li's son.
