The Fast and the Furious a Musical Parody Review
The Fate of the Furious – movie review
Even though I've been an avid fan of The Fast and the Furious since earlier the release of its start pun-tastically titled sequel in 2003, I really wasn't all that excited almost seeing the saga'southward much discussed eight instalment. To my mind, Furious vii served as the perfect stopping point for the series and non just considering of Paul Walker'south tragic death. Manager James Wan did such a good job of bringing the franchise full circle while wrapping up all of its unresolved storylines that the idea of doing another sequel seemed extremely superfluous.
My scepticism was only heightened when the trailers divulged that the narrative would revolve effectually Dom's betrayal of the team and credible turn to the nighttime side. However, I've been invested in this franchise long enough that I was willing to requite this latest contribution to the continuity the benefit of the doubtfulness and now that I've seen it for myself, I'm genuinely dismayed that, despite doting all seven of its predecessors, I don't have anything particularly positive to say about The Fate of the Furious.
To be off-white, I did relish that information technology opened with Dom and Letty vacationing in Cuba as well as The Rock's ridiculously dramatic approach to coaching his kid'south soccer team. The insight into the characters' personal lives that these scenes provided was a nice bear upon and showed that everyone's lives had reverted to some sense of normalcy after the events of the terminal few films. But then Dom goes rogue and things quickly take a turn for the worse.
While I won't reveal the reason for Toretto's treachery, I will say that it involves some fairly major retconning that I'm not sure even makes sense when y'all consider the timeline of the movies from Fast Five onwards and this is really at the root of what's wrong with this movie. The action scenes may quite literally be unbelievable and the fix-piece with the submarine is basically simply a carbon copy of the cargo aeroplane sequence from Fast and Furious vi, but it's all completely in line with what nosotros've come to expect from these films. What really bothered me about The Fate of the Furious is that series scribe Chris Morgan seems to leave of his way to contradict the established canon at every bachelor opportunity.
Thanks to the trailers, it's no secret that Statham teams up with the protagonists this time around and Morgan makes no effort to nowadays a plausible reason equally to why the dastardly Deckard Shaw would want to help our heroes. Likewise, Dom and his team don't seem besides reluctant to welcome a man who murdered ane of their own into their midst. On pinnacle of killing Han in cold blood, Shaw most concluded Dom, Brian, Mia and Jack by blowing up their business firm in LA, but bafflingly, none of that seems to be an outcome any more.
Hobbs actually has more than of a trouble with Shaw than any of Han's so-chosen family unit and even though The Rock and Statham brandish good chemistry together, it'south difficult to bask their banter considering it completely undercuts the terrific tension that was built up between them in the previous film.
Shaw's awesomely intense demeanour coupled with his power to agree his own against Toretto and Hobbs in hand to hand to combat made him feel like a genuine threat to the protagonists in Furious 7 and I was hoping he'd render with a vengeance here. But instead of capitalising upon his potential as an adversary, Fate transforms him into a cheesy action hero. At one point he even refers to his brother as existence a "lost cause", despite the fact that he spent the entirety of the concluding movie attempting to punish Dom for defeating said sibling in Fast and Furious 6.
Don't go me wrong, I love Jason Statham and The Stone, and in a different film their interactions here would accept been pure gilded. Unfortunately though, most of what they do during The Fate of the Furious contradicts their previous character arcs to the point that information technology'south difficult to believe that this story was conceived by the aforementioned person who penned the final five instalments of the franchise. And they're not the just ones who act out of character either.
Diesel does his all-time to channel Toretto's inner turmoil, merely, setting bated the bad-mannered retconning that results from what makes him turn on his team, Dom'due south expose feels very unnecessary. Without giving anything away, there is a window early in which he could have sought out less extreme solutions to his problem and while I do understand why he was conflicted, I don't purchase that Dom would take such aggressive activeness against those closest to him.
On the other manus, Rome'south wit is dialled upward so much that he ends up coming across as a painful parody of himself. I loved the sense of playfulness that Tyrese brought to the tabular array during all four of his previous appearances as Roman Pearce, but The Fate of the Furious turns the once street-smart smooth talker into a total-blown buffoon whose immature remarks and total lack of decorum make him trying to watch whenever he's onscreen.
At to the lowest degree Ludacris is still likable as tech specialist, Tej Parker. It's just a shame that his skills are often rendered redundant by the presence of Nathalie Emmanuel's fissure figurer hacker, Ramsay.
The just actor who succeeds in shining throughout is franchise veteran Michelle Rodriguez, who very effectively conveys the pain and perplexity that Letty experiences in the wake of Dom's betrayal without compromising the character'due south typically tenacious demeanour. This is arguably Rodriguez's best performance in the franchise to date and I commend her for being the only major actor who manages to inject some genuine emotion into the proceedings.
As far as the rest of the cast goes, Charlize Theron isn't especially bad as cyberterrorist Zip, even though her character feels similar an incredibly clichéd Bond villain; Kurt Russell's enigmatic Mr. Nobody is basically just a plot device who shows upwardly to spout exposition when the occasion calls for it; and Scott Eastwood is and so inconsequential equally Eric Reisner that you'd exist forgiven for forgetting he was in the film at all.
For me, a lot of the fun of the first seven films arose from the sense of esprit that existed among the cadre characters. But with Brian, Mia, Han and Gisele gone, Dom working against what's left of the team and so many plot contrivances, contradictions and retcons at play, The Fate of the Furious is a disappointingly pale reflection of what came before it. If you're a fan of the franchise, I'm not going to say you lot shouldn't become come across it. I sincerely hope you enjoy information technology more than I did if you do. But if this is indicative of what we can look from the side by side two movies in the serial, then I'm content to pretend that the story concluded when Dom and Brian's roads diverged at the stop of Furious 7.
Rating v/10.
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