House of Fury (2005) poster
2005 · action · comedy · family · spy

House of Fury

Directed by Stephen Fung1h 42m2005
ElsewhereIMDb6.12k
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • redemptive
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Cosy, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Teddy Yu is a former secret agent turned chiropractor who thought he left his past behind. He teaches martial arts to his two kids. However, his past catches up to him as a rogue agent demands to know the whereabouts of an agent known as Dragon. Now, father and children must team up to stop the rogue agent and his goons.

Our read · House of Fury (2005) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded action · comedy · family entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want Hong Kong family martial arts comedy with dad and kids vs past.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want serious kung fu or adult only action.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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