THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS (2017) ENG-HIN

Finding themselves in Cuba, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez) are enjoying their honeymoon, contemplating the idea of one day having kids of their own. Unfortunately, their honeymoon is cut short when the mysterious yet powerful cyber-terrorist Cipher (Charlize Theron) emerges, blackmailing Dom into carrying out specialized retrieval mission, amassing lethal weaponry. Unprepared to believe that Dom has betrayed their “Family”, Letty, Roman Pierce (Tyrese Gibson), Tej Parker (Ludacris), Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel), and Agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) venture forth in hot pursuit to find their now “rogue” friend, aided by Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell) and his junior associate Little Nobody (Scott Eastman), who are also hunting for Cipher as well. While Dom continues his enigmatic ways of doing Cipher’s bidding, Toretto’s team travels to New York and beyond to capture Cipher, one step behind her malevolent plans, and bring Dom back to his senses; a global adventure that requires the help from the team’s ex-enemy Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), who also shares a personal vendetta against Cipher.

I’ll be one of the people who will proudly admit that I do love the Fast and the Furious movies. Like many fans, it wasn’t until 2011’s Fast Five came out in which the franchise saw a major improvement, choosing for a more focused on story rather than just illegal street racing as well being more of a feature team adventure film (that has some continuity to it) rather than just a simple one and done from earlier installments. Also, like many fans of this film series, I looked upon Furious 7 as bittersweet entry, saying goodbye to Paul Walker’s character as well as trying to keep up the momentum from Fast and the Furious 6 going. Luckily, it did. It wasn’t perfect, but Furious 7 succeeded and proved the moviegoers (as well as their fans) were still interested in seeing another entry, which bode well for the franchise and its future films. This, of course, brings me to Fast and the Furious 8, which has been officially titled as The Fate of the Furious. Being a fan of the series, I was definitely intrigued to see this movie as its market campaign (all the movie trailers, TV spots, etc.) and was curious to see how the movie would live up to its predecessor, especially without Walker’s Brian O’Connor (a main character in the franchise).  What did think of F8? Well, to be honest, I liked it. While there are bumps in it, The Fate of the Furious does succeed in as been a entertaining movie and a solid addition to the series. It may not be the best, but it’s still a whole lot of fun
The Fate of the Furious is directed by F. Gary Gray, whose previous work includes directing such films as The Italian Job, A Man Apart, and Straight Outta Compton.  Given his talent on directing The Italian Job, Gary utilizes that knowledge in his ultimately direction of this eight tale of Fast and Furious. Of course, Gary understand what fans and moviegoers want to see and gives that to them, keeping up the “Fast and the Furious” standard of over-the-tope stunts and ridiculous action scenes. Many of those scenes from racing the “Cuban Mile” in Havana, Cuba to the bombardment of Cipher’s zombie cars in New York City, to the extra-long race across a frozen lake in Russia are prime staples of Fast and Furious name, but are given the extra “oomph” to be more insane and ridiculous. This is all a good thing as fan of the franchise are expecting this as Gary and his stunt team coordinators as well as cinematographer Stephen F. Windon prove to The Fate of the Furious a grand spectacle in keeping up the over-the-top action of this movie saga every much the “eye candy” of the picture. As aside from the action, Gary also does some fine work on some one-on-one dialogue scenes (more on that below). Thus, in short, Gary’s iteration of a Fast and the Furious movie (i.e. The Fast of the Furious) is a welcomed to addition to stand alongside past Fast and the Furious directors such as Justin Lin and James Wan.
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