So, will film No.
8 smugly titledThe Fate of the Furious(F8… get it?)
appropriately carry on the legacy of its forerunners?
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Gray, who helmed the Oscar-nominated N.W.A.
[Theron] carries plenty of weight in the story,The Hollywood Reporters John DeFore writes.
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), and an explosive hail-Mary finale so sublimely ridiculous it defies both good sense and gravity.
(It helps, perhaps, that several main players have no hair to singe.)
), or when Helen Mirren shows up, in a too-cute cameo, as Deckards Cockney spy-overseer mom.
The franchise has shifted gears once again and is racing toward new pile-ups.
Jim Vejvoda (IGN):The Fate of the Furiousis as ridiculously entertaining as you might expect.
Its certainly better than its trailers which came across more like parodies of a Fast and Furious movie suggested.
The final act is essentially one prolonged chase across the ice in Russia.
