Kenji Tanigaki, stuntman and fight choreographer turned director, delivers his eighth film with The Furious, a fast-paced ode to legendary Asian martial arts cinema. While the film navigates familiar genre paths, Tanigaki finds his own voice, crafting a work with impeccable mise-en-scène, precise technical execution, and a meticulous attention to artistic detail.
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Don’t be fooled—there’s nothing final about this ending. I can assure you that Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning (2025) is not the end of this successful franchise. Perhaps it marks the closing of a particular timeline within the Mission: Impossible universe, but the studios will surely find ways to bring Ethan Hunt and his team back. Almost 30 years have passed since the first film in the franchise hit theaters under the direction of Brian De Palma, and now, with the eighth installment, the path is being paved for a generational handover.
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Long before superheroes took over the screens. There were flesh-and-blood action heroes before Marvel and DC sought the niche of action cinema with their characters. Nostalgia always gets the better of me and I can’t resist returning to those action movies and characters from the 80s and 90s that paved my way to the movies. Stallone, Van Damme, Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Steven Seagal, Bruce Lee… these legends and many others dominated the big screen with their epic adventures from which they always emerged victorious.
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The Last Movie Guy 