Well I just saw Fast 8 today and what a great action film this is the franchise has come along since the first film being a unofficial Point Break Remake, this film franchise has moved away almost completely from the racing of cars this is the action franchise of our generation if it was made in the 1980’s you would be seeing Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in these films.
Fast 8 picks up fairly soon after the events of the 7th installment, we find Dom and Letty on some sort of honeymoon in Cuba life seems to be all well until Dom Comes Across Charlize Theron Character, the team get a job in Berlin all once again is as normal until Dom turns on them. The film takes off from here and the standard paint by numbers formula of these films sets in and that’s not a complaint as the action in these are always edge of the seat experiences.
The film is a must see in the cinema with amazing action set pieces that you see glimpses of in the trailer, the cars in this film are amazing watching a tank and a Lamborghini run side by side is something you wouldn’t see in any other film. The One liners in this film delivered by all the cast are amazing but especially those between the Rocks Character Luke Hobbs and that of Jason Stathams’s Evil/good Deckard/Ian Shaw are so funny its amazing.
The only real down side to the film is sometimes the pacing, these films always fall short when they try to convey drama and the scenes seem to be double the length.
This film however is a great installment to the franchise and breaths new life into it, in-fact this film is a clear changing of the tone for these films and a change to were the future films are heading.
My Rating: 7.5/10
IMDb: 7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 64%
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