Director Kevin A. McCarthy
Special Guest Director Edward Payson
Staring Michael McCarthy, Jordan Elizabeth, Kane Hodder
Rated R
Score 1.5/6

One vigilante cop, Ronan Pierce, rises to avenge his. He is fuelled by a tragic past, and the recent abduction of his wife. Relentlessly searching for clues, along the way he unleashes a storm of retribution against a viper’s nest of corrupt politicians, human traffickers, drug cartels, organ harvesters, and a twisted assortment of psychos, thugs, and perverts in the dark city. Responsible for both his daughter’s death and his wife’s abduction, the Luna Cartel.

This movie was inspired by comics/graphic novels but even though it hasn’t been adapted from an established title by its very style this movie falls squarely into the ‘comic book movie’ genre. I’m only saying this because to my knowledge no comic book rated over a US PG-13 has not achieved any degree of financial success, make a profit (yes I am aware this will probably change with the release of Deadpool and possibly has considering the independent nature of this movie).
I really was not that impressed much of this movie; the quality of this could have been improved if it was watched at the tail end of a 5 movie movie marathon. That was not the case here. Fury: The Tales of Ronan Pierce is very much a take it or leave it kind of movie especially considering the story is very clichéd (perhaps watching the 2004 release of the Punisher would have been a better idea. Hell even the ’89 version would have been better). On any other day I’d like to think that I would have left this one on the shelf. At least I had the common sense not to pay retail price for the ‘privilege’ to watch Fury.

By the look of it this was the first project that a lot of the filmmakers involved with Fury had worked on and there were a couple of good things about this movie. It was very clear that the filmmakers loved comics/graphic novels and there was a couple of moments scattered throughout the movie where I thought they wanted their movie to be a motion comic. None of the performances where anything to write home about the only interesting thing that I saw from any of the actors was from Michael McCarthy who had this thing of giving Ronan Pierce what could only be described as a more intense ‘Christian Bale Batman voice’ during the action sequences. The comparisons to Batman can be extended to a character adopting what I saw to be Harley Quin inspired makeup.