(Film Review) The Fate of the Furious [F8]

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Why are they shooting at me?

I don't know. Maybe because you're in a orange Lamborghini.

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Review

While on his honeymoon in Havana with Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), Dom (Vin Diesel) is coerced by cyberterrorist Cipher (Charlize Theron) into working for her and betraying his crew and family.

The creators of Fast & Furious probably understood that the plot will never be its selling point of these films; F8 gives up any pretense of logic in its plot and focuses solely on the action sequences. There are some pretty cool sequences, such as hundreds of autonomous cars piling up in NYC and a huge chase sequence in Russia on a frozen lake. Despite this, there are no marquee sequences like the huge vault chase in Fast Five or the plane takeoff scene in Fast & Furious 6. This film introduces the bromance between Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) and Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson), as well as the protégé of Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell), Little Nobody (Scott Eastwood), but overall, the numerous plotholes (Dom just accepts Deckard after Deckard killed Han?) were too much even for the action sequences to make up for. The witty banter is still solid, though.

Conclusion

The really bad story ruined the film.

Overall rating: 6.8

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