The Wildest Action Movie of 2026 Gets Official Digital Release Date with Jaw-Dropping Trailer

Anticipation is already mounting among action fans for The Furious, a martial arts thriller that’s due out in theaters on June 12, armed with a rare 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The film features The Raid alum Joe Taslim, and will be released domestically by Lionsgate following a premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2025. As it turns out, The Furious isn’t the only critically acclaimed Hong Kong action movie slated for release this month. On Thursday, Well Go USA Entertainment unveiled a jaw-dropping trailer for its upcoming action epic film, directed by the legendary Yuen Woo-ping. The trailer proudly brandishes the filmmaker’s credentials, which include designing action choreography for masterpieces such as The Matrix, Kill Bill: Vol. 2, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Woo-ping’s new movie is a period epic about a bounty hunter and his nephew, who make enemies with the wrong sort and go on the run. Along the way, they join forces with skilled martial artists and band together to take the enemy down. The movie is headlined by Wu Jing, best known for the Wandering Earth films and The Battle at Lake Changjin — some of the highest-grossing Chinese movies ever made. Jing is joined in the cast by Nicholas Tse, who starred alongside Jackie Chan in New Police Story. The film’s villain is played by the great Jet Li, a major draw considering he’s semi-retired at this stage in his career.































































Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz
Which Action Hero Would Be
Your Perfect Partner?

Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt

Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.

Rambo

James Bond

Indiana Jones

John McClane

Ethan Hunt

01

You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner?
The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.





02

You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel?
How you get there is half the mission.





03

You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do?
This is when you find out what someone is really made of.





04

The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest?
Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.





05

How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission?
Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.





06

Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them?
The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.





07

Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do?
Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.





08

What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace?
A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.





09

Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with?
No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.





10

It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now?
The last question is the most honest one.





Your Partner Has Been Assigned
Your Perfect Partner Is…

Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.

Rambo

Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.

James Bond

Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

Indiana Jones

Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

John McClane

Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

Ethan Hunt

Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

Watch the ‘Blades of the Guardians’ Trailer Here

We’re talking, of course, about Blades of the Guardians. The movie opened theatrically earlier this year in China, during the lucrative Chinese New Year period. It grossed more than $210 million at the box office against a reported budget of $120 million. The movie now holds a stellar 97% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Blades of the Guardians masterfully showcases director Yuen Woo-Ping’s feel for fluid action, delivering a fiercely entertaining spectacle surging with pulpy melodrama and grand battles.” Critics have hailed it as an “exhilarating action film” and one that “balances badassery and ambition.” The trailer, which revealed that the movie will debut digitally in the United States on June 30, offers a glimpse of the Mad Max: Fury Road-meets-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-style narrative scope. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.


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Release Date

February 26, 2026

Runtime

126 minutes

Director

Yuen Wo-Ping


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