[star rating=”4″] FURY. Written, directed, and edited by Tim Greene. With Thishiwe Ziqubu, Pierre Malherbe, and Rea Rangaka. Prime Video.
MEGAN CHORITZ reviews
I remember Tim Greene putting this movie together during lockdown. He took the opportunity to make a film in a single location, with an incredibly small cast, and it is so successful. It’s an action movie with a strong psychological thriller thread, and it’s totally contemporary with the use of social media that is pivotal to the story, and it really works.
Things go off the rails …
The plot, without giving too much away; a young woman invites a man to her apartment for dinner, but she has a hidden agenda. She wants him to confess to raping her sister, who committed suicide because of it, nine years previously. He arrives and the apartment is rigged with cameras to film and broadcast his every move. The viewers watching it live are to be his judge and jury. It escalates very fast. Things go off the rails and don’t ever come back on.
Zola (Thishiwe Ziqubu) is amazing. She is taut, emotional, strong, fast, vulnerable, and incredibly magnetic. I couldn’t take my eyes off her. Pierre Malherbe (Ryan) pulls off creepy white man so deftly and cleverly, we almost, but not quite, feel sorry for him. We back and forth between them and what happened on the night, with interjections from viewers, including Zola’s mother, increasing the tension and making it all very personal.
Crazy good
This film is crazy good. The set and styling are fantastic. The energy between performers and the performances themselves are riveting. The editing and sound are fantastic. I was tense and involved throughout. A tiny niggle is that in the last ten minutes there is a lot of story, maybe a teeny bit too much story, that gets in the way of a more believable resolution. But that does not take away from its overall power and success. Yay for excellent, exciting, original, top class local flieks!
What: Fury
Where: Prime Video
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