Fate of the Furious review roundup: Lots of action without a concrete storyline
The Fate of the Furious or Fast and Furious 8, whatever you call it, may just be the decisive factor of the future of the franchise. Though the film franchise has already raked in $3.9 billion over its lifetime, the early reviews of the new film range from indifferent to decisively bad: Paul Walker’s absence didn’t have much effect on the story of the film according to this critic The Hollywood Reporter’s John DeFore says “The result isn’t as big a gear-shift as some fans expected in the wake of original castmember Paul Walker’s death. A few critics, however, think the film lives up to its premise of being a fast paced action film: Uproxx’s Mike Ryan thinks “The Fate of the Furious is not a short movie and about three-fourths of the way though it drags a little, but then the heat-seeking missiles and the submarines show and it clicks back into overdrive. I mean, don’t you kind of want to see Dominic Toretto race a heat-seeking missile?” IGN’s Jim Vejvoda says “The Fate of the Furious is as ridiculously entertaining as you might expect. Indeed, no eighth movie in any franchise has any right to be as fun or effective as Fate manages to be.” Entertainment Weekly’s Leah Greenblatt says, “Screenwriter Chris Morgan, now on his fifth Furious outing, swats away plot logistics and the laws of physics like the pesky mosquitoes they are, and director F Gary Gray has no intention of slowing his roll.
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