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Last Updated: May 6, 2017 - 12:58:16 AM

The Fate of the Furious
By Rouén Robinson
May 3, 2017 - 12:53:25 AM

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The next chapter in the franchise is also the most the serious for better and for worse...

The patriarch of a team mostly made up of former street racers is forced to go against them by a cyber terrorist. When his betrayed teammates and former arch-nemesis are forced to work together to take him down, it becomes a race between life and death with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance.

Dominic Toretto is a retired street racer enjoying an extended honeymoon with his wife when he is coerced by a cyber-terrorist to work for her against the team he has grown to see as family. Luke Hobbs is the Diplomatic Security Service agent who has been tasked with an off the books mission that will find him in prison if he and his team are not able successfully pull it off. Deckard Shaw is a rogue special forces assassin with ties to the cyber terrorist through his brother and is forced to work with the team he had sworn revenge against for the greater good. Cipher is a cyber-terrorist who has found a way to force Dominic to work for her and has plans to use him to secure nuclear weapons in an attempt to police the world’s major governments.

The Fate of the Furious is a high octane thrill ride of over the top bombastic action from start to finish. This is the first movie (apart from The Fast & the Furious 3 : Tokyo Drift) that does not have Paul Walker’s Brian O’Conner and the fact that he was the heart of the team really shows. This is by far the most serious entry in the franchise and the humor that is injected in certain scenes to ease the tension is quite noticeable. The cast bring their A game to this 8th installment and are able to keep you believing even the most outlandish scenarios with the standouts being Helen Mirren, Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson. F. Gary Gray reminds us that he still knows how to direct a death defying stunt filled action film and make it look like a piece of cake. I guess this is the closet I will ever get to seeing a G.I. Joe 3 with a live action interpretation of the arctic battle for the pieces of the weather satellite in the 80’s cartoon. I rate this movie a rating of 3 1/2 out of 5.

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Rouén Robinson has been an avid moviegoer since childhood and has been critiquing motion pictures for almost a decade. He has been a film critic for The Cinemas on Tempo and was a judge for FLIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island, an off shoot of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Rouén lives in Grand Bahama and can be reached at redr1976@icloud.com and on Twitter @thereelrouen

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