The Fate of the Furious is as ridiculously entertaining as you might expect. It's certainly better than its trailers -- which came across more like parodies of a Fast and Furious movie -- suggested. Indeed, no eighth movie in any franchise has any right to be as fun or effective as Fate manages to be.
Fate has a great hook: Dom betrays his team -- no, not his team! His family! -- for mysterious reasons, joining hacker queen Cipher (Charlize Theron) to help fulfill her nefarious agenda. Why, oh why, would Dom ever do such a thing?! Well, I'm not going to spoil that reveal for you, but it's a compelling, human reason.
With Dom now an agent of Cipher's, the team -- Letty, Roman, Tej, and Ramsey -- and rogue DSS Agent Luke Hobbs are recruited -- OK, they don't really have a choice -- by Mr. Nobody to pursue Dom and Cipher and clear themselves in the process. They also gain a surprise ally in Jason Statham's Deckard Shaw, the villain of Furious 7. (How quickly they all forget about Han's murder ...)
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Fate has a great hook: Dom betrays his team -- no, not his team! His family! -- for mysterious reasons, joining hacker queen Cipher (Charlize Theron) to help fulfill her nefarious agenda. Why, oh why, would Dom ever do such a thing?! Well, I'm not going to spoil that reveal for you, but it's a compelling, human reason.
With Dom now an agent of Cipher's, the team -- Letty, Roman, Tej, and Ramsey -- and rogue DSS Agent Luke Hobbs are recruited -- OK, they don't really have a choice -- by Mr. Nobody to pursue Dom and Cipher and clear themselves in the process. They also gain a surprise ally in Jason Statham's Deckard Shaw, the villain of Furious 7. (How quickly they all forget about Han's murder ...)
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