The cast of the Fast and Furious is back in action in the latest installment, The Fate of the Furious. The eighth movie in the car-chasing franchise, the Fate of the Furious sees Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese and Ludacris now joined by Helen Mirren and Charlize Theron, who plays the film's villain. An obvious absence, however, is original cast member Paul Walker.
Many, including the cast, worried about continuing on the franchise
without him, but as a passion project in his honor, the cast succeeded.
Here's what the critics are saying about this speedy sequel:
Universal Pictures
Variety:
"More than any previous entry, it draws elements from every conceivable
level of the action-cinema hierarchy. It's a pedal-to-the-metal
car-chase movie. And a global thermonuclear cyberthriller in which a
supervillain, known as Cipher (Charlize Theron), tries to teach the
world's superpowers a deadly lesson. It's also a suspenseful
‘inter-family' drama that takes the gruntingly gruff and loyal
Teddy-bear badass Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and figures out a way to
pit him against all of his beloved comrades, including Letty (Michelle
Rodriguez), whom he's finally just married. The movie is also a
playfully sadistic bare-knuckle rouser, with actors like Dwayne Johnson
and Jason Statham inflicting some serious bone damage. You'd think that
merging all those elements would make The Fate of the Furious a bit of an overcooked stew."
Universal Pictures
The Hollywood Reporter:
"The result isn't as big a gear-shift as some fans expected in the wake
of original castmember Paul Walker's death. In fact, it recycles
plot-twisting devices from earlier chapters and keeps action firmly in
the street-hoods-save-the-world neighborhood entered a couple of years
ago. Fate delivers exactly what fans have come to expect, for
better and for worse, and it would be a shock to see it disappoint
producers at the box office."
IGN: "The Fate of the Furious
is as ridiculously entertaining as you might expect. It's certainly
better than its trailers—which came across more like parodies of a Fast and Furious movie—suggested. Indeed, no eighth movie in any franchise has any right to be as fun or effective as Fate manages to be."
Entertainment Weekly: "Screenwriter Chris Morgan, now on his fifth Furious
outing, swats away plot logistics and the laws of physics like the
pesky mosquitoes they are, and director F. Gary Gray has no intention of
slowing his roll. But the movies are nothing if not consistent in their
themes of loyalty and brotherhood and blowing stuff up—and in retaining
the core crew."
Indiewire: "
F8 is the worst of these films since
2 Fast 2 Furious, and it may be even worse than that. It's the
Die Another Day
of its franchise — an empty, generic shell of its former self that
disrespects its own proud heritage at every turn. How did the great F.
Gary Gray, whose surprisingly strong remake of
The Italian Job
displayed a tremendous flair for comedic vehicular mayhem, waste the
biggest budget of his career on such boring smash-ups? How did Diesel
and co. manage to learn all of the wrong lessons from the last two
movies, delivering an episode where everything feels so fake that even
the 'family' matters seem forced?
Do you want to see
The Fate of the Furious?
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