It didn’t matter.Ĭipher (Charlize Theron) and Dom (Vin Diesel) pick holes in the plot.Īlong the way, Dom redesigns and races his cousin’s car, at one point driving it backwards… while on fire, the fire applied with appalling CGI. It does some technical doohickery that causes explosions to go off… I think. In addition, there’s a device she wants called “God’s Eye”. He’s blackmailed by Cipher ( Charlize Theron) for reasons that’ll become clear later, but to do her bidding, he must retrieve an EMP device, aka Electromagnetic Pulse, which can take out electronic systems etc within a large area of anywhere where it’s set off, stopping vehicles in their tracks and shutting buildings down… although somehow his car – in which it’s housed – keeps on truckin’. I came out hugely enjoying it for a piece of daft entertainment and wanting to watch the previous seven, even though I can see they’d be better on a big screen.ĭominic Torreto (Diesel) – aka Dom, because all the cool people are called Dom – is forced to cheat on his ‘family’ like formerly-Manchester-based comedy promoter turned nefarious criminal warlord Mark Pollard. which explains why they were so full of… yes, you know.īut this one avoids that, so will it be an improvement? Either way, from the trailer, I couldn’t understand why this or any of them last over two hours, or even over 90 minutes. Both those films required colons in their titles…. So I figured that the big screen was the only way to go…īefore I watched this, I was quite sure I wouldn’t lose too much understanding of the plot, but I get that all the characters see each other as ‘family’ and when I saw the trailer for Fast 8, where Vin Diesel ‘goes rogue’, I figured it’d be the same sort of misunderstanding that got in the way during Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Captain America: Civil War. I never got into them when they began, and then tried to watch No.6 when it was on Channel 4 (since ITV never showed the first five properly), but couldn’t grasp that, either. Fast And Furious 8 – aka The Fate of the Furious – is the… er… eighth film in the fast-driving franchise, and is the first one I’ve actually seen.
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