Ngô Thanh Vân, known in the U.S. and abroad as Veronica Ngô, is hot on the John Wick franchise’s trail for the “most headshots per movie” race. In Furies, her second go-round as director, bullets fly at noggins like honey bees to coneflowers, dispatching thugs left and right with casual impunity. Guns and martials arts aren’t new bedfellows, exactly, but the recent popularity of gun-fu, where punches and kicks unite with 9mm muzzle blasts, is relatively modern. Coming from Ngô, it’s even a bit of a surprise.
