Hai Phuong

This Vietnamese action thriller is centred on young mother, and former gangster, Hai Phuong, she uses her martial arts skills to work as a debt collector in a rural area. Her job and single status leads to her daughter, Mai, being picked on. One day Mai is snatched by gangsters and although Hai gives chase she can't keep up. She learns that they were heading to Saigon so heads there herself. Once there she sets about trying to find Mai; her sense of urgency is increased when she learns that the police are investigating gangsters who are kidnapping children for their organs. Her journey through the Saigon underworld will lead her into several dangerous situations before she can finally confront the kidnappers.

When I started watching this I didn't really know what to expect; I had never seen a Vietnamese film before. If this is anything to go by I might need to seek out some more. The story is nice and simple. The opening scenes serve to introduce Hai and her daughter and after the kidnap the action rarely lets up for long. There are numerous fight scenes where Hai uses local martial art Vovinam to take on various ne'er-do-wells. These fight scenes are exciting and well-choreographed; they are also fairly bone-crunching as our heroine gets battered and bruised. Surprisingly she doesn't always win and is lucky to survive occasionally. The cast is solid; Veronica Ngo really impresses as Hai, I imagine we'll be seeing more of her in future films; Cát Vy is likeable and not overly precocious as Mai and Phan Thanh Nhiên is good as Captain Luong, the officer leading the hunt for the traffickers. The settings are impressive with the early rural scenes contrasting nicely with the bustle of Saigon. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to fans of martial arts looking for something from somewhere new.

These comments are based on watching the film in Vietnamese with English subtitles.

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Country: Vietnam Genre: Action/Martial My Score: 6.9

Cast=4 Acting=6 Plot=5 Ending=9 Story=5 Violent=9 Pace=6 F/X=7 Martial=10 Stunts=8

A mother with a checkered past is trying to start again. But when her daughter is kidnapped, she must turn back to that life in order to save her.

"I might be in the wrong place...but you took the wrong kid." This Vietnamese film has a lot going for it. I only recognized a couple of actors...plus the plot and story were meh at best. What I loved was he reason I bought the film...the fight scenes! Veronica Ngo shines as a mama bear you should not have messed with. It was basically "Taken" with better stunts. I am looking forward to seeing more Ngo action films very soon!

You sometimes do wonder: Why me? Is it Karma? Could the lead character here be having issues because of what she once was? Also does that not also help her solving those problems? Maybe, but having a kid taken away from you is quite harrowing to say the least.

The drama unfolds and everything is quite crazy, but nicely edited and told. Not a masterpiece but more than decent

This is "Taken" - Vietnamese version with lots of awesome action packs played by one lead attress NGo Thanh Van. It made me could not take my eyes off any seconds. Together with other great cast and easy plot but yet touching, Furie is indeed one hell of a Hollywood quality action movie that can't be missed

It's been a while since we got another raid/taken type movie so I guess my jubilation at watching this film trailer was no surprise however after watching the movie I have to say the reason I couldn't come around to giving this movie an 8 rating is the fact the pacing was a bit off none the less great acting super action and another hit for all action martial arts movie fans