The Fate of the Furious (2017)

DanDare April 13, 2017

The film starts out on the streets of Cuba with Dom doing some street racing to help out a relative. Dom (Vin Diesel) is honeymooning in Cuba with Letty but married bliss does not last for long. A cyber terrorist called Cipher (Charlize Theron) has something on Dom, enough to get him to turn his back on his family and go rogue. Hobbs ends up in jail because of Dom's betrayal. Even worse he is the same block as Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) the man he put in jail in the last film. Mr Nobody (Kurt Russell) manipulates both Hobbs and Shaw to team up, together with Dom's crew they go after Cipher. The film has several big action pieces the best of which are auto-driven cars being hacked an causing mayhem in the streets of New York. The Russian set action scenes on ice being a bit dicey. It is still a loud, dumb action picture. Popcorn entertainment.

Gimly June 24, 2017

★ 5/10

Might be the dumbest of the franchise to date, and if nothing else, that's an achievement. More importantly, _Fate of the Furious_ continues the tradition that the series has upheld since all the way back in the... half-way point: _Fast 5_. That was when these movies actually got bearable, and _Fate of the Furious_ delivers on the promise of that fun. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

Reno August 18, 2017

★ 7/10

**Fast + Eight = Fate** We all miss Paul Walker here, but the franchise has grown bigger with more new casts from a couple of previous installments and with this, still counting. Yes, it marks the arrival of Jason Stathom as hinted at the end of the previous part, as well as Charlize Theron in the negative role. And guest appearance of veteran actors. This is where the bald guys rule. One of the most unique franchise. This is the costliest film in the series, but did not earn as much as 'Fast 7' did. At least it stands second out of the eight. Now the billion dollar club becoming normal. The best thing about this series is, the race days are over. It's now more a cop-thief kind of cat- mouse action-adventure game that moves all around the globe. It opened in Cuba with a small race, which is what it's known for, but soon falls back to the manhunt. Yep, Toretto abandons his family…

Dark Jedi May 23, 2018

★ 8/10

home the man who made them a family. This movie could easily have been a five out of five stars movie. The story is not that bad but the script and the special effects are absolutely ludicrous. Do not get me wrong, the special effects are, in terms of visual effects quality, really good but they are also utterly unbelievable. What kind of total idiot did they put to play out his juvenile wet FX dreams on this one? I do not mind over the top special effects and I do not demand 100% realism, at least not in a movie like this, but the effects in this one is just so unbelievable and unintelligent that it really spoils the fun. Take submarines that outrun speeding cars…while acting as ice breakers at the same time. How the hell did they get the submarine from being propped up in dry dock into the water in less than an hour? Also, this guy seems to think that you can just turn on a nuc…

GenerationofSwine January 14, 2023

★ 1/10

I was forced to go see this with my girlfriend and her best friend. While objecting to the film, I summarized the plot for them garnered off of knowledge achieved by watching a single trailer...including all coming twists. It turns out that I was correct on all counts. The question you have to ask yourself is..."Do you really want to see a movie that is that predictable?" I know I didn't.

CinemaSerf August 9, 2026

★ 6/10

Now that "Dom" (Vin Diesel) has got married to "Letty" (Michelle Rodriguez) and they've all been pardoned for their previous death defying/inducing antics, he is hoping to settle down and take it easy. Sadly for him, the enigmatic "Sypher" (Charlize Theron) has some leverage on the man and pretty swiftly he has gone rogue and abandoned his long established friendship with "Hobbs" (Dwayne Johnson) et al. Meantime, that beefcake agent has managed to get himself into quite a pickle and ended up in the cell opposite the unforgiving "Shaw" (Jason Statham). Luckily for him, "Mr. Nobody" (Kurt Russell) and his new mini-me (Scott Eastwood) are in need of some intrepid folk to track down an EMP gadget that's been pinched in Berlin, and so an early release is organised. Before they can make it through their initial briefing they receive an unexpected and messy visit from their ertswhile colleague …