The Fate of the Furious: Movie Review

The Fate of the Furious. Who can top that? Car chases and action, rare gun shots and mostly hand combat battles, low budget and a lot of unknown actors. This is how this franchise started back in 2001. Now, looking back, Fast and Furious looks so different in style and everything else. Budget is 250 million dollars just for production. I bet the marketing was another hundred million. Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his crew made this far from a Point Break remake to the one of the biggest movies of all time. It will do extremely good at the box office. After this one, there will be another 8 coming out in the near future with space battles and races on The Moon. I mean they won't do that in the next 5 or 6 movies, but who knows, maybe the crew will change, and already Dom's and other's children will do all that crazy stuff. 

Firstly this movie started with something very familiar for Fast and Furious fans. Cuba, an atmosphere of a holiday, great cars, beautiful women. Classical race of two on some crazy cars with absolutely insane action for each one's car. Dom raced some local tough guy. 

Him and Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) got married and everything goes good, the family is happy and save. His honeymoon is going well. Exactly at that point Dom meets a lady, Cipher (Charlize Theron), who shows him something, that makes him go against his family. His motivation is unclear, but we all know Dom. He would never turn his back on family, if there wasn't a good reason. Because of Dom's betrayal, Hobbs got into prison, where he meets Deckard (Jason Statham) - his enemy form Fast 7. They face each other, swearing and scolding. After their escape they must work together to find Dom and Cipher.  

Humor is everywhere in this movie. Whether it's Hobbs and Deckard or Roman with his stupid comic relief with horrible jokes in JarJar style. This film is full simple one-liners and gesture jokes. Epic and over-the-top phrases don't ruin anything. The movie has that happy atmosphere. But drama doesn't lack in it either. Some moments are tragic. On a scale of superaction this film beats every other F&F combined, it is laughable, how zombie cars drive in New York or a nuclear submarine drugraces a Lamborghini. I laughed a lot. Some moments didn't match with my perception of life. And there are very unnatural moments, that really mess up with the physics. 

However, F8's party-holiday atmosphere and comic relief jokes from Roman create a feeling of this movie being a big pop-film with every directorial move based on following mass audience desire to turn their brains off. It is not bad, but knowing how to do that, F. Gary Grey makes this movie work. Power of onscreen chemistry between "The Rock" and Jason Statham is one of the best parts of this installment of F&F. 

Thus, this movie looks good, but still only follows the ridiculousness of the previous ones. It is irrelevant to talk about artistic value of the film. It delivers fun and ludicrous action, and if you enjoy one-uping each other Hobbs and Deckard - this movie is for you. Entertainment value this movie has.