Fate
Of The Furious 9/10
There
will be spoilers. This morning I headed to The Arclight (The Dome
really) and checked out Fate Of The Furious. I hadn't been in that
part of the theater in a long ass time. I have really liked this
movies since the fifth one (click here, here, and here for previous
reviews of the Furious films) and was looking forward to this one so
much. I saw a submarine in the trailer and said fuck everything. I
have to see this as soon as it comes out. The entire cast is back for
this one as well as some surprises and great additions. Vin Diesel,
Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, the lovely Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese,
Ludacris, hot ass Nathalie Emmanuel, Kurt Russell, too handsome Scott
Eastwood shows up, and magical beam of light Charlize Theron is the
newest villain and by god she is evil as fuck!
This
starts off with Diesel and Rodriguez (I'll be using real names, damn
it) celebrating their honeymoon in Cuba and having an insane ass
street race to save Diesel's cousins' raggedy ass car. One day while
he is out for a stroll he is approached by Charlize pretending her
car won't start. She says that he is going to work for her and shows
something on her phone to him that is powerful enough for him to
betray his new wife and all of his friends he considers family. I was
seriously wondering just what the fuck it could be and couldn't think
of anything to warrant it. Turns out it is something that is super
fucking insane and believable! I could not imagine how the writer
came up with that shit because one of the best things about having a
long series like this or even something like the Saw franchise is
being able to call back to things from films ago you forgot about.
The
Rock hires Diesel and his team to go retrieve an EMP from a base in
Berlin and its insane and the mission is accomplished when suddenly
Diesel flips The Rock's truck over and steals the EMP. The Rock is
arrested because he was told beforehand if he or anyone was caught
they would not be saved by the US government. He gets taken to jail
and Jason Statham is already locked up there. On the way inside
though Kurt Russell offers him a deal with his new help played by
Scott Eastwood. Eastwood is a great addition to this series. Statham
and The Rock have some good back and forth with an impending rematch
from the previous film. After a prison break they are both recruited
to help stop Charlize. Rodriguez refuses to believe that Diesel has
really turned on the team even though all evidence points to the it
being true.
Statham
ends up finding out that his brother (a villain in a previous film)
was hired by Charlize which is why his ass is captured and in prison.
Diesel, and by this point we know why he turned on his team, wants to
kill Charlize so damned bad but just can't. She keeps telling him
that he really doesn't believe in his own moral code and just wants
to race, secrets be damned. She is fucking evil. One of the most
hardcore ass villains in a long time in film. There is a scene with a
high speed chase in New York that is bananas. I sat there with my
mouth wide open thinking “Why hadn't anyone else thought of doing
this in movies with cars?” This movie did for cars and chases what
John Wick did for gun fights.
This
movie was so fun to watch. It topped even that crazy ass airplane
launch in the last one. Besides the cool ass New York Chase, the
submarine chase, and the racing the fights improved as well as the
writing. And I dare say that the acting was far superior to previous
films. I had no idea how this movie would end. One of the main
reasons that I did not give this a 10/10 is because the music was
terrible. I love sitting through credits when I see movies and it was
torture sitting through these because every song was worse than the
last. These Furious films have a tendency to have shitty music and
this one was no different. Just horrible rap music. Otherwise, cool
movie. If you liked the last few you will love this one. Oh, I also
need to point out that Tyrese needs a spin off with Ludacris where
they just talk shit to one another.
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