Hulu’s 90-minute thriller Hell Hath No Fury has great action and an unusual origin story

polygon.com:

The 90-minute thriller is an all-too-rare species in the modern movie ecosystem, but the excellent Hell Hath No Fury, a 2021 release new to Hulu this week, is an antidote in this era of three-hour superhero epics.

Set at the end of World War II, Hell Hath No Fury follows Marie DuJardin (Nina Bergman), a French woman who has had her head shaved to mark her as an accused Nazi collaborator. She’s rescued (or captured, depending on your point of view) by a group of American soldiers, who demand she reveal the location of a secret stash of Nazi gold. They aren’t the only ones seeking the gold: Members of the French resistance and a battalion of Nazi soldiers on their way out of France are also on the hunt.

What follows is a gripping, tense thriller set almost entirely in a cemetery, with a palpable air of uncertainty throwing everything you think you know about the characters and the situation into question. Director Jesse V. Johnson, a former stuntman best known for his collaborations with DTV action legend Scott Adkins (Avengement, although my favorite is The Debt Collector), delivers one of his very finest films, keeping viewers on the edge of their seat for the entirety of its 94-minute runtime.

According to this excellent interview with JVJ by Matthew Essary, the film was financed after Johnson got in contact with a financier who had an unconventional request.

“He really, really wanted a World War II Jeep and wanted to be able to write it off as part of the production cost,” Johnson told Essary. “And so I said, ‘I think I have the perfect film.’” And we snuck in sideways that way.”

Another fun tidbit from that interview: JVJ did one of the stunts from the climactic sequence of the film himself.

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