Rent Fast and Furious 8 (2017)

Yes its silly but it delivers as much fun as its predecessors. - Fast and Furious 8 review by Tej

Well, I am a fan of the fast of furious films. They are wonderfully energetic, funny, entertaining, progressive and delightfully outrageous.

This eight instalment continues the fun while retaining the heart of the "family" which admittedly is soulfully a lesser family without Brian (late Paul Walker's character). But to make up for that, this film breaks the awesome Jason Statham out of jail, and adds a flurry of thespians in Helen Mirren and Kurt Russel to spice up the character play offs. Charleze Theron makes a mark one of the series most evil villain. It is questionable however, having Statham narrative-wise in the team given what he has done in the previous films, though. But his scene stealing scenes makes up for that narrative blip.

Well I say narrative blip but of course the whole film's narrative is silly as usual. The film is one setpiece after another with interludes of "family drama". But that's not the point as the film is full of energy, jokes and outrageous action sequences to quench our thirst for pure high voltage escapism on a Friday night at the movies on your sofa.

Its not the best of the series but its still a fun entry. Its not as slick or classy as some of the better Bond movies or Mission Impossible movies but it sure is full of heart, inventive and its energy is contagious. There is love for fans in its delivery and though it falters sometimes they give it all they got. As a fan, I lap that all up. And if you are a fan too, I hope you enjoy this but dont expect the best entry. Just expect to be highly entertained. And also dont think too much in linking all the dots because not all the dots are there!

I give this 3.5/5 (obviously I had to round that up to 4 as stars as CP dont do half stars)

Surely no FF nine? - Fast and Furious 8 review by NC

Off we go again with max crash, max noise, max graphics, and minimum acting and dialogue. May as well get the PC game really.

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.

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

Zero-stars extravaganza - Fast and Furious 8 review by Alphaville

Spoiler: FF8 begins with a car race between two cars. Vin Diesel wins it. In his vest! Who’d have thought? No. 8 in the franchise and it’s still breaking new ground! It sets new records in the cliché count. It reaches new heights in inane dialogue. It pulls out all the stops in finding new ways to shoot scantily clad pneumatic young women. The bald stars’ stunt men are at last given their due by having their appearance in action scenes made obvious. The thunderous score achieves new levels of bombast. Oh, and there’s a lot of car mechanics to add to the intrigue.

The plot revolves around Vin going rogue. Surely not. You’ll be on tenterhooks to find out why. New to the franchise, he even attempts emotion in a couple of scenes. It’s ground-breaking stuff. There are car crashes, fist fights and flash bangs, especially during the drawn-out climax, which thankfully keeps repeating explosions so that we can see more fire. There’s even a prison riot set to hip-hop music. Really cool, man.

The film looks good and is mercifully devoid of shaky cam. Apart from that it richly deserves the zero-star rating it has worked so hard to earn.