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The Fate of the Furious (2017)
A horrific thrash
I remembered that 3rd part of this movie "Tokyo Drift", was lots of fun, so I convinced my wife to see the 8th part. What a pile of crap we saw! It started with a traditional racing, which was fun but, after so many movies about the same thing, felt quite trite, to be honest. Even colorful Cuban landscapes and passionate Latin themes didn't help. My wife called that part "chuleria del barrio" (a neighborhood childish put on). Producers knew that and, apparently, decided they needed to raise stakes so the movie quickly shifted into the terrorism domain. Taking into account the caricature nature of the franchise which, at the same time, pretended to be a kind of serious, the attempt was moronic from the very beginning but got worse with every turn. Protagonists first invaded Germany (Berlin) and later Russia (some Northern military base). Both times they wrecked havoc having fun killing locals. Both time locals had nothing to do with what was happening. American villains fought with American "supermen" on a foreign territory. After each firework and significant body count, either American villains or American "supermen" celebrated the victory. Locals just depicted a stupid cannon fodder with zero initiative. Their role was to appear with a gun or a "chainsaw" (if they were big enough) and die for American fun. Stunts and fistfights were impressive (Statham is a big talent) but the sheer lunacy of the events didn't let me enjoy the action part much. Racing, the core of the franchise, already too far-fetched to be the central part of a terrorist plot, didn't save the day because the sound in the cinema was deafening. Whenever protagonists cranked up their engines, I would start praying to have it finished before my eardrums explode. I especially remember the last scene of the movie when complacent American warriors gathered on a rooftop of a skyscraper in New York to celebrate their victory and talk about family values. Never mind they have just killed, at least, a hundred innocent Russians, who tried to save their military base from the invasion. Of course, in the mind of movie makers, those poor chaps deserved to die. Why not? After all, they were unable to protect their nuclear submarines from cunning American terrorists. If it wasn't because of the USA, the world would have ended in nuclear convulsions pretty soon. The message is clear: die poor barbarians, that's your Fate of the Furious while we, an uber-nation, continue breed and prosper.