Rent Fast and Furious 8 (2017)
3.3 of 5 from 546 ratings
2h 10min
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- Synopsis:
Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson and Michelle Rodriguez lead an all-star cast as the global blockbuster franchise delivers its most action-packed, high-octane adrenaline rush yet in 'Fast and Furious 8'. Now that Dom (Diesel) and Letty (Rodriguez) are married, Brian and Mia have retired from the game and the rest of the crew has been exonerated, the globetrotting team has found a semblance of a normal life. But when a mysterious woman (Charlize Theron) seduces Dom into the world of crime he can't seem to escape and must betray those closest to him. From the shores of Cuba and the streets of New York City to the icy plains off the arctic Barents Sea, our elite force will crisscross the globe to stop an anarchist from unleashing chaos on the world's stage...and to bring home the man who made them a family. - Actors:
- Vin Diesel, Jason Statham, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Charlize Theron, Kurt Russell, Nathalie Emmanuel, Luke Evans, Elsa Pataky, Kristofer Hivju, Scott Eastwood, Patrick St. Esprit, Janmarco Santiago, Luke Hawx, Corey Maher, Olek Krupa, Alexander Babara, Andre Pushkin
- Directors:
- F. Gary Gray
- Producers:
- Vin Diesel, Michael Fottrell, Chris Morgan, Neal H. Moritz
- Writers:
- Gary Scott Thompson, Chris Morgan
- Aka:
- The Fate of the Furious
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Sports & Sport Films, Thrillers
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Motor Racing Films, Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Helen Mirren, A Brief History of Film...
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 16/10/2017
- Run Time:
- 136 minutes
- Languages:
- Anglicized English Audio Description, English DTS Headphone: X, English DTS:X
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Extended Fight Scenes
- All About the Stunts
- Feature Commentary
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 16/10/2017
- Run Time:
- 136 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS Headphone: X, English DTS:X
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
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Reviews (8) of Fast and Furious 8
8th part of 10 fast & furious films - Fast and Furious 8 review by ACE
Very very good film for those that enjoy the fast & furious franchise films. Gone a little too much towards the Cyber side but still a good film providing you like driving detail or are interested in petrol
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Ridiculous - Fast and Furious 8 review by JR
Don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting a Fast and Furious movie to be completely realistic. The first few were silly fun for the car enthusiasts and you could ignore the unrealistic bits, but they are getting dumber and dumber. Amazingly the cast is getting better and better, but even they can not save this movie with its cartoon-like car stunts, lame cheesy dialogue, and ridiculous story. It's a movie very obviously written for it's core audience of 12 year old boys.
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Big Budget Actioner - Daft But Entertaining - Fast and Furious 8 review by GI
Also entitled The Fate Of The Furious. If you take a moment to think about the evolution of this series where it has moved from cheeky illegal street car racing narrative to full on Mission Impossible/James Bond territory you will also be able to understand just how silly the whole thing has become. This latest instalment is definitely hi-octane action cinema that will appeal to those who just want full on stunts and action set pieces regardless of how utterly daft the plot is. But you can't take away from this that it's cinematically entertaining and if you've liked the series you'll continue to love this although it offers nothing particularly original apart from a nifty sequence where numerous cars in a huge chase are like a zombie apocalypse scene, that was clever.. It kicks off with an illegal street race just to ground it within the Fast & Furious world with Dom (Vin Diesel) and Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) living the good times in Cuba. The old team have retired and all is peachy until Dom is blackmailed by the big baddie (Charlize Theron) who has him stealing world changing gizmos and eventually up against his old team who are pulled together by Kurt Russell's covert agency to stop the baddies and bring Dom down. This cues a globe trotting mission of lots of fighting, shooting, chasing and everyone is having great fun. Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham are now allies after being big enemies in the previous film and back into the fray is Luke Evans bringing with him Scott Eastwood, who sort of replaces the Paul Walker character from the previous films and Helen Mirren has a funny cameo as Statham's mum. An action film, high production, fun in its own way and more of the same and you'll have to be up on the series to get the story and relationships.
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Critic review
Fast and Furious 8 (aka The Fate of the Furious) review by Mark McPherson - Cinema Paradiso
The Fast and the Furious franchise was on such a roll with the most outlandish, ridiculous and entertaining of movies where street racers save the day. I can still recall how I smiled and chuckled heartily at scenes where cars are able to stop a tank with wires, survive being shoved out of a jet and take down a helicopter firing missiles at them. The series seemed to have finally found its groove of presenting the most over-the-top of action with a giddy sense of comradery amid a “family” of misfits. But in finding its groove, it may have grown too comfortable with Fate and the Furious, an unfortunate misfire that doesn’t so much crash and burn the saga as it does show how empty the tank is getting.
First and foremost, the stunts are ample and fun, though not as amazing as they’ve been in the past. Highlights include Vin Diesel’s character of Toretto driving a flaming car backwards in a street race, a horde of remotely controlled cars assaulting a motorcade and a missile-firing submarine chasing our heroes through the ice. These are amazing stunts and they never fail to please, but I could sense a desperation in these scenes, as though filmmakers are eventually hitting the bottom of the barrel for car stunts. The sequence where a mass of cars topple over one another through New York City was fun, but more from a satirical sense of combining the car chase from The Blues Brothers with the volume and intensity of World War Z. The scene where the cars speed around the ice to avoid being sunk by a submarine had me wondering if I’d already seen this before in Die Another Day. If I did, it wasn’t memorable and this sequence doesn’t fair much better.
Speaking of James Bond, the new villain for the picture could take a cue from his villains. The terrorist at large is Cipher, played by Charlize Theron as nasty blonde with big ambitions. Size doesn’t matter, however, when your plans are far too bland. Her grand scheme for world domination is to snatch some nukes and hold the world ransom. I thought such simple plots were retired when Austin Power satirized them for how silly they really are? Sure, villains of Fast and the Furious have never been that cunning or original, mostly adopting the tech of the day with some vendetta against our heroes.
That being said, I can’t fault Theron for her actions to get that old nuke-stealing plot. She figures she needs some extra muscle to acquire her weapons and sets her sights on Toretto. It doesn’t take much to convince Diesel’s character to work for the enemy as Cipher is holding hostage his infant son that he didn’t know we had. This team seems to just have “family” coming out of the woodwork every movie.
Diesel-less, the rest of the familiar good guys assemble to take down Cipher on their own. Dwayne Johnson returns as the cute and slick-talking giant of agent Hobbs, this time teamed up with his worst enemy of Shaw, played by the always smug and tough-as-nails Jason Statham. Both of them are great with their love/hate chemistry. So great, in fact, that they deserve better dialogue. There’s no denying they have a likable chemistry in everything from an insult showdown to a prison brawl, maintaining their charisma with every punch. Shouldn’t they be given better dialogue then talk about what they’re going to shove up each other’s butts?
What made the previous films work so well was the tricky balancing act of providing as many crazy stunts as there were enough cool moments for the entire cast to shine. Most of the characters seem to have been sidelined for this outing. Kurt Russell can mug at the camera like no other actor can, but feels wasted as he does little more than advise from a corner. Tyrese Gibson and Ludacris could have some fun as the loud and smart members respectively, but here are reduced to a handful of semi-amusing moments, rarely shining as brightly as they should. Even newcomer hacker Nathalie Emmanuel feels wasted as the expositional tech girl, only having short interactions with Gibson and Ludacris in a love triangle that just isn’t there. To shut up both the boys, Emmanuel asks if either of them know her last name. We don’t know either because the movie never asked.
I fear for the future of Fast and the Furious as this latest picture displays a lack of charisma and a spark of enthusiasm. The stunts are still grand and uproarious, but what good will that do to improve scripts of bland doomsday scenarios and dialogue more standard than clever. I don’t expect a lot of out of these movies as big, dumb blockbusters go, but maybe I should if I won’t feel much for the inevitable sequel where cars are launched into space.