By John Serba Published July 7, 2026, 3:00 p.m. ET PSA: The Furious (now on VOD platforms like Prime Video) is not an accurate representation of the human body’s capacity for enduring violence. This film’s various degrees/combinations of punching, chopping, kicking, kneeing, elbowing, head-butting, hammering, SLEDGEhammering, whaling on each other with bicycle pedals and bicycle chains and bicycles themselves, etc., is purely for entertainment purposes only, and imitating it is not advised because one such blow would put you in a hospital for weeks (if not the morgue!) in spite of how the characters in these movies endure enough blunt-force brutality to render their bodies wholly liquified. The movie stands as Kenji Tanigaki’s directorial breakthrough — his lengthy resume as an action and