Review: Fate Of The Furious, Facepalms And Family.
- Apr 14, 2017
- 2 min read
Vin Diesel really likes family. Seriously, if you had a drink every time the word family was spoken you'd be dead before the half hour mark, kind of like this movie.
Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his wife Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) are honeymooning in Cuba. When Cipher (Charlize Theron) confronts Dom and forces him to work for her, his "family" must do battle against the best driver known to man. He's so good he can defy the laws of physics, I mean, how do you beat that?
I like stupid action movies. I don't need complex plots and excellent cinematography. Give an unstoppable badass blowing away bad guys, intense chase scenes and a smattering of explosions. Fate Of The Furious has everything above and yet, almost none of it lands. Maybe it's the fact that the characters make decisions so stupid they make Schwarzenegger movies look smart or maybe it's that almost all the action sequences have been done before, mostly in the same franchise and almost always better elsewhere.
Don't expect much from the cast either. While Kurt Russel, Scott Eastwood, Dwayne Johnson (he's the only thing keeping this franchise alive) and Jason Statham are all pretty entertaining in their own right, everyone else is gratingly bad or downright annoying, I'm looking at you Tyrese Gibson. Aside from an enjoyable prison riot and a nifty sequence involving remotely controlled vehicles, Fate Of The Furious is a 2 hour bore. The concept of family is hammered home so hard that you'll only ever hear it in baritone and while Theron's villain is sufficiently entertaining, there's no conclusion to her character.
Do yourself a favour and don't watch this movie. It should be fun and exciting. It should be mindless entertainment and, while it's certainly mindless, it's far from entertaining.
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