Fast and Furious has reached its eighth installment of the franchise which has no perfectly devolved into silly over the top action movies. The fate of the Furious contains dump writing, improbable physics, and some weak acting but it's one hell of a fun time at the movies. The cast is all great, Jason Statham and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson in particular who have brilliant on-screen chemistry. Tyrese Gibson also provides the biggest laughs of the film and the comic relief. The directing from F. Gary Gray is good but this isn't the best directed of the series. However, the action here is absolute, ridiculously awesome. The set pieces continue to increase in scale and ridicule with the Jason Statham centered scene the undoubted highlight. The film is funny and incredibly entertaining. However, if you begin to think about the plot the film falls apart. The fate of the Furious is definitely not great but it's incredibly entertaining and some of the most fun I've had at the cinema all year.
Out of the gates, I want to acknowledge that F. Gary Gray is a very talented filmmaker. He has brought us the likes of Friday, The Negotiator, A Man Apart, The Italian Job, Straight Outta Compton, and even Law Abiding Citizen was passable. This movie felt like an overproduced, underwritten, group project more than anything else. Okay, I feel better now. This movie was awful. The story. The dialog. The characters. Every element of this movie was either telegraphed from a mile away or cheap or the low hanging fruit option or the most unrealistic possible way to go about a scene. So many people died in this movie. Cops, people guarding a Russian base, innocent citizens, but it was all okay because of fast cars and muscles and pretty girls.
The action was not fun. Oh, and the gratuitous product placement. My lord Coca-Cola and most of the world's fancy cars have commercial fodder for years now after this movie. I think Mark Wahlberg just blushed. This was definitely the best one yet. I was either on the edge of my seat or in an intense position during the movie. There aren't any end credit scenes so don't worry and out staying. The third act featuring the submarine was really intense. I can't see how they're going to top this one if they continue on with the series.
Furious 7 left a big remembrance. Not only with the actors that we're so familiar with since the very beginning but to see Paul Walker's last big performance. Continuing a legacy that's been left behind and to remember, it's to wonder if it really should continue. Well, they did with this franchise. Like other franchises, you have to admit that you can never capture the essence of what it once was. Whether it's making a new movie, a new song, or even a new book. Sometimes it doesn't really work. Somehow in this movie, it works but it was weird at the same time. Returning characters from past films were surprising but unnecessary. The characters you like a lot before then, have the little spotlight. While it may not be necessary for that kind of characters, I thought they deserved more. Like the two guys that always argue or that other character that I won't spoil.
In this case, you need to see it to believe it. Charlize Theron did nothing but acting in this movie. Literally just acting but she did a really good job at it. Kurt Russell, of course, he did a great job as well. As for Scott Eastwood, I get to see more of his acting performance and suffice to say, I'd like to see him in a Marvel movie. Halfway through the movie, I gotta say that there were a lot of computer scenes going on. It made the movie kinda boring. I've already seen this stuff last time but it got more used in this movie. I understand it plays a big part into the story but it just fails it and does not bode well with everything. I got kinda bored with that. I'm here to see some fast and furious stuff. Not furiously hacking fast at things but I guess the title means a lot of different ways. Not just with cars.
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