When the 8th movie in your franchise makes over 500 million dollars globally in one week, does it matter what the critics think?

The Fate of the Furious reminds me of the WWE. Dom turns heel. Deckard turns face. The Rock does a Rock Bottom. People fight. Cars drive. Characters drive tanks and practice extreme body boarding. One of the baddies looks like a Game of Thrones pirate. Charlize Theron is a Total Diva. Scott Eastwood makes my day. Kurt Russell is the man! Ludicrous is ludicrous. Tyrese's Roman might be the heart of the franchise. I know Ramsey's last name. Hell yes!!

My favorite character is Jason Statham's Deckard. The fella is CRANKED to the max. His going all…

"The Fate of the Furious" is the worst "Fast and the Furious" movie, betraying everything that fans love about the series.

The first 10 minutes of “The Fate of the Furious” have everything that you could ever ask for in a “Fast and the Furious” movie, or any other movie for that matter. Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) swaggers through the streets of Havana, tasting the local flavor as a bass-heavy Cuban pop song bangs on the soundtrack. The sun is shining, the cars are classics, and the girls are wearing hot pink thongs that make their butts pop off the screen like they’ve been post-converted into 3D. It’s like someone threw a Pitbull video and forgot to invite him.

Then,…

I feel like a whore for liking this movie. Like I'm part of the problem when I should be more against the idea of even seeing it on the big screen and supporting more like it, especially after seeing plenty of other films crash and burn royally at the hands of them.

And yet......damn it, I liked it! Something about F Gary Grey's confidence in the various set pieces at play mixed in with the genuine chemistry the cast and characters to just.....how fucking ridiculous this movie ends up getting was enough to say "fuck it! Whatever! Cinema is dead but I'm going to have fun beating it to death!"

But then it has to throw in some genuinely great…

The Fast and Furious series continues its saddening and disastrous drop in quality. As the profitability to Universal has risen, their respect for this popular and diverse set of characters has plummeted, with dire results.

The sudden rehabilitation of Jason Statham's character has been singled out for criticism, and rightly so - it's a transparently greedy move, intended to capitalise on Statham's popularity even if it means riding roughshod over the series' much-vaunted (albeit tortured) continuity. It's also just a larger part of his Chris Morgan's idiotic script woefully underserves all of the key characters, to the extent that half of them could be cut out. A theme of "family" means little when the heroes are written so dismissively.

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