Fistful of Vengeance

Right now you can watch Fistful of Vengeance in Australia on Netflix, and in the US on Netflix — and it goes further with its ideas than most genre entertainment bothers to. The length is exactly right for the story it is telling — nothing rushed, nothing dragged out. 337 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Watch it for Iko Uwais — the performance elevates material that could easily tip into self-seriousness. Start it on Netflix whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Fistful of Vengeance arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Fistful of Vengeance uses its genre premise as cover for asking bigger questions. A revenge mission becomes a fight to save the world from an ancient threat when superpowered assassin Kai tracks a killer to Bangkok. Iko Uwais and Lewis Tan lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was released in 2022. The world-building is meticulous enough to sustain multiple rewatches, with details early on that only make sense later. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Sci-fi fans who want ideas alongside the spectacle will find Fistful of Vengeance genuinely rewarding. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. A contained runtime means every scene is doing real work. Iko Uwais anchors it with a performance that makes the more abstract moments feel personal. If you have been burned by ambitious sci-fi before, this is the exception.