The Furious (2026)
Action, Crime, Thriller
The Kernel take
An 85 Metascore ("Universal Acclaim," 100% positive across 21 reviews) is the strongest critical reception in this batch by a wide margin — Box Office Mojo separately lists the worldwide gross closer to $39.7M, a small discrepancy between trackers. Either figure puts the film at only around 2× its reported $20M budget worldwide, a modest commercial result for a nearly universally acclaimed release, with just $6.5M of that coming domestically.
Lead track record: Xie Miao
The Furious (85) is by far Xie Miao's best-reviewed credit in this sample, well above his 63.3-point average and ahead of his next-best, 大梦西游2：铁扇公主 (67).
Box office
Budget $20M · Box office $41.5M
A -59.9% second-weekend drop and a 2.3× domestic multiplier are unremarkable for a genre title, though the film's real story is likely playing out overseas given the modest $6.5M domestic total against a $41.5M worldwide gross.