Jason Statham He is one of the last great action heroes of recent cinema, but that does not mean that he often leaves the feeling of giving life to the same character over and over again. However, within his filmography there are a handful of titles that shine with their own light and today I have to talk to you about one of them because you have ‘Awaken the Fury’, surely the best action movie starring Statham -because yes, I like it better than the much more adrenaline-pumping ‘Crank: Veneno en la sangre’-, to watch completely free of charge on RTVE Play for a limited time.
It is striking that ‘Despierta la furia’ has taken so little time to premiere on television, since it reached Spanish cinemas last year and its brief stint on RTVE Play, where It will be available until this Sunday 27 June, coincides with its broadcast on La 1 just a few days ago. In addition, it was not even published on blu-ray in Spain and the only other platform on which it is available is on the very minority fuboTv.
‘Wake up the fury’ also marked Statham’s reunion with Guy Ritchie, who at the time gave him his first great opportunity to ‘Lock & Stock’ and with whom he would later collaborate again on ‘Snatch’ and ‘Revolver’ -curiously the first two are the only two films in Statham’s filmography that he would put above the one at hand. His meeting here served to shape a brilliant action thriller in which a revenge story is successfully mixed with another of robberies.
Tense and entertaining at all times, ‘Awaken the Fury’ benefits from a precise staging work by Ritchie, who here leaves aside certain boasts typical of his cinema -which were present in the remarkable ‘The Gentlemen: The lords of the mafia’-, which does not mean that put all the meat on the spit during the wild final stretch of the film. To this we add a Statham in the fullness of him giving life to a man who is characterized much more by what he does than by the little he says.
To this we add a script that makes great use of non-linear narrative, first to arouse the viewer’s curiosity and later to hopelessly hook them. It all adds up to a thriller that may seem somewhat routine at first glance, but then in ‘Awaken the Fury’ you will find an infallible entertainment who knows very well how to make the most of its virtues and nuance its limitations to the maximum.
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