By Emilio Frenk.
Director: F. Gary Gray
Cast: Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodríguez, Dwayne Johnson, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Jason Statham, Nathalie Emmanuel, Charlize Theron, Luke Evans, Kurt Russell, Scott Eastwood, Elsa Pataky, Kristofer Hivyu and Helen Mirren.
Rating: Very Good.
F. Gary Gray, director of “Straight Outta Compton” and “The Italian Job” brings “The Fate of the Furious”, the eighth installment of “The Fast and the Furious” franchise and again the results were positive.
While Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his wife Letty (Michelle Rodríguez) are enjoying their honeymoon in Cuba, a mysterious woman named Cipher (Charlize Theron) seduces Dom.
Later in the movie Dom and his crew conformed by Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson), Roman (Tyrese Gibson), Tej (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges), Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel) and Letty steal an artefact in Berlin where Dom betrays his crew, goes rogue and is recruited by Cipher in a world of cyber terrorism.
Eventually Dom will learn the secrets of Cipher´s plans and will try to manipulate him at all costs.
Now the remaining crew from Dom´s team will try to stop Cipher who intents to create a nuclear war before it´s too late and of course they need to find Dom as well. They will do it with the help of assassin Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) who has a personal score to settle with Cipher as well.
“The Fate of the Furious” like the previous films of the film entertains and that´s the whole point of this movie.
F. Gary Gray knows how to direct this kind of movies. He did it with “The Italian Job” were not only interesting characters were brought to the big screen but the action sequences he directed were very well made specially the chase involving Mini Coopers that took place in the streets of Los Angeles and was the climatic scene of the movie.
Honestly the First “Fast and Furious” film had a very interesting premise and a good script, but I feel that the franchise begin to be better from the fifth film to the last one.
The screenplay of this film again was written by Chris Morgan, who precisely begin to write the films from the fourth movie and despite having over the top moments and some of them redundant the movie delivers.
I liked the fact the movie was not obvious and some of the other “Fast and Furious” films were having those elements of being too predictable.
This wasn´t the case and this was the opposite which also made it an enjoyable experience.
The journey from Vin Diesel´s character was very well executed and honestly was not expected since we see him as the main hero of the film but for other choices he decides to do what he does during the movie.
Charlize Theron plays a very good villain. She is pure evil in this film but at the same time I do consider a blessing seeing this talented actress portraying a very interesting character.
I understand why this movie had to be a little longer than it should be but I do believe if some of the scenes would have been trimmed it could have been still a good movie.
F. Gary Gray proves to be one young director who is very talented in directing this type of films and the way how he played with the internal and external conflicts of all the characters was very smart and again we route for them.
“The Fate Of The Furious” is a slick, fun and entertaining film and I recommend it despite of the over the top moments that were previously mentioned and I can guarantee you that you will have a great time watching this movie.