After watching Noyce's thriller masterpiece Dead Calm, this film is a welcome addition in the action thriller genre. The film is written by Charles Robert Carner(of Gymkata fame) and is a loosely based, modernized version of Zatoichi Challenged, the 17th film in the Japanese Zatoichi film series.Actor Rutger Hauer plays Nick Parker, an American soldier serving in the Vietnam War, is blinded by a mortar explosion, and soon after rescued by local villagers, who help him recover his health. Although he remains blind, as a part of his recovery, he is taught by the local master to be an expert swordsman, and to train his other senses. Years later, having returned to the United States, he visits old army-buddy Frank Deveraux (Terry O'Quinn), only to find that Deveraux is missing... I've been a fan of Rutger Hauer ever since his Blade Runner days. Later He played an iconic role as the psychopathic killer in The Hitcher. In this film, since he plays a blind man, there are some scenes in the film which are very humorous. For example, in one scene he apparently tries to drive a van down a busy road. He hits a car and the driver of the car says, "Are you blind or what?". Hauer replies after staring at him through the window,"Yeah. Whats your excuse?" The acting, action scenes, background sound effects and solid script make this film very watchable.Notable actors in the film: Terry O'Quinn(The Stepfather 1 and 2) and Meg Foster(Ticket To Heaven, The Emerald Forest).Verdict: A must buy film.Other Hauer films to watch/buy: Ladyhawke(1985), Escape from Sobibor (1987), Salute of the Jugger(1989), Wedlock(1991), Split Second(1992), Surviving the Game (1994 - Excellent and must see.), Fatherland (1994). I have seen the above films and recommend them highly. Add them to your shopping list.

Blind Fury is too funny to be serious, which you would of expected to be. Instead, what you get is a film that doesn't take itself so seriously, a slapstick, of action film of continuity, as in action I mean. Our Rutger, great as always, loses his vision while fighting the wars in the humid jungles of Vietnam. Taken in by some villages, he's trained as a samurai swordsman, which is rewarding in the end, where he graduates as the ultimate sword master. Remember, he's blind, and when we see all the instruments of injury he dodges, and bad guys he takes out, we ask ourselves, how could of he become this good. Answer: It's only a movie. No blind guy could be capable of this, except Rutger, in this heavy action pic of continuity with shades of humor too. Rutgers's vet friend (The Stepfather's Terry O'Quinn) is in deep trouble in Vegas, as having to owe all this money, to these mob swindlers. Saving Quinn's son, from death, where the mother's taken out, Rutger and kid head to Vegas. He's aided by Quinn's girlfriend (Lisa Blount) and they set to take these guy's down. Far fetched as it (one scene has Rutger behind the wheel, speeding towards a wall, missing it by sheer centimeters, when braking), the action, and fighting which would of taken hours of training are well choreographed. This film is just a reason to kill 83 minutes of time at the movies, where we know by now as in almost every of his B grade, straight to video CRAP, the name Rutger means action. Even Sho Kosugi, turns up near the end, as a bad guy, would you believe. Blind Fury, which had a humble cinema running, followed by Salute Of The Jugger, sadly, was the start of an endless of chain of duds for our poor Rutger. The same went for the career of another 'Hitcher' star, C. Thomas Howell. How the hell Rutger caught that teensy toy alligator at the end, when thrown by the kid, on the bridge above, takes the cake of implausible moments in the film. This film too was fresh off the heals of Phillp Noyce's prior hit, Dead Calm.

Awesome! What a movie! I never knew that Rutger Hauer(RH) does have martial arts experience involving sword fighting! as far as i concern this movie does really beat most of martial arts movies especially movies that stars Steven Seagle and Van Damme. None of their movies can beat Blind Fury. This movie is really awesome! I suppose this one should be rated more than 6. Allthe actors in this movie are surprisingly convincing. Sho Kosugi small part did really steal the show. I guess this is one of the best fighting scene i've ever watch. But i was wondering why this movie is not a success movie...huhu, never mind that..at least all the comments for this movie sounds positive, no one dares to say this is really a bad movie. I'll give this movie 10 stars. So far, this is one of the best RH movie...i mean the second best.. the best RH movie goes to The Hitcher. Go ahead and watch this two movies.. but don't watch Blade Runner, it really sucks...avoid it!I'll buy a DVD copy for Blind Fury in a few days.. :D 10/10 stars (EXCELLENT)

After being initiated into the Way of the Sword by his Viet Cong Captors and taught how to quarter mangoes in mid-air, Marine veteran Rutger Hauer returns home to rescue an old buddy and his son from a syndicate of gambling, drug-running scum. Hauer is, by the way, totally blind, but who needs eyesight when you have superhuman hearing and a three-foot long razor blade? Believe it or not the film was written as an action comedy, and like any martial arts adventure was meant to be at least partially ridiculous. But the choice of hero is ambiguous: the villains may be dumb, ugly, and/or sadistic, but it's the blind, benevolent Hauer who travels from Miami to Reno leaving assorted body parts scattered in his wake, while dropping pearls of Oriental wisdom such as, "whatever happened before…is in the past." Hauer eviscerates, dismembers, slices, dices, and impales every criminal he meets, at one point cutting a slobbering maniac neatly in two at the waist. And this is a role model? Kids, don't try this at home.