The Fate of the Furious 2017

     This is installment eight.  Brian and Mia have retired as members of the Fast and Furious.  Dom and Letty are on their honeymoon.  The other members of the crew are enjoying some downtime in their lives.  A mysterious woman forces Dom into her world of crime.  Letty and the others don’t know what kind of hold she has on Dom to make him work for her?  Letty, Roman Hobbs, Deckard, Tej and Ramsey learn that the woman is Cipher and she steals the program God’s Eye from Mr. Nobody and Owen.  Cipher’s goal is to get the launch codes for a nuclear submarine with nuclear weapons.  This installment of the franchise takes place in Cuba, New York City and the arctic Barents Sea. 

     I wonder how the next Furious will be able to top the Russian submarine emerging from the ice?  Plenty of cars, plenty of weapons, not a lot of the plot and the dialogue is cheesy!!  I don’t know how many times the word family is used?  We get that?  We got it before??  There is some bluffing anger from some of the characters.  The cars and the action are the best part of these films for me!!  3 1/2* (I liked this movie)

136 min, Action directed by F. Gary Gray with V in Diesel, Jason Statham, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Charlize Theron, Kurt Russell, Scott Eastwood, Nathalie Emmanuel, Luke Evans, Elsa Pataky, Kristofer Hivju, Patrick St. Esprit, Janmarco Santiago, Luke Hawx, Corey Maher, Olek Krupa.

Note:  Imdb 6.8 out of 10, 67% critic 73% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2 ½*, Amazon 4.3* out of 5* with 1040 reviews, Metacritic 56 out of 100 with 45 critics 7.0 out of 10 with 620 reviews, Rolling Stone 3* out of 4* review by Peter Travers.

Special Note:  Filmed in Atlanta and Perry, Georgia; Cleveland, Ohio; Havana, Cuba, Akranes and Myvatn, Iceland; Berlin, German; New York City.  Director F. Gary Gray also directed Straight Outta Compton.  Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel had a secret meeting a week before filming ended.  Some of Johnson’s planned scenes were cancelled at the last minute?  Diesel didn’t show up on the set as scheduled several times?  This caused expensive delays?   They were able to resolve their issues and Johnson may return for the next film?  There us a mistake with the 1957 Plymouth in Cuba?  Dom uses the opener ring of a soda can to remove a vacuum line off the engine.  Actually, you would get reduced boost and less power with this fix?  There will probably be a Furious nine since these films have made almost $4 billion worldwide.  This film has the highest gross of $1.5 billion.  Michelle Rodriguez posted on Instagram that she might bow out of the franchise if the roles for the women are not improved.

Cars used in Manhattan:  1966 Chevrolet Corvette, 2016 Mercedes AMG GT S, 2016 Jaguar F-Type, 2016 Bentley Continental GT, 2017 Subaru BRZ, International MXT. 

Cars used in Iceland:  Customized vehicles are used in the ice sequence but the two street models are Lamborghini Murcielago, Subaru WRX STI, heavily modified Dodge Ram truck, Local Motors Rally Fighter.