![]() ![]() It’s nice that Paul Walker gets to live on through these movies - his unseen character is still chilling on a beach somewhere - but the actor’s death has eliminated the last remaining failsafes that were preventing this franchise from forgetting what it’s all about, and “F8” sends the entire enterprise careening towards a full-blown identity crisis. manage to learn all of the wrong lessons from the last two movies, delivering an episode where everything feels so fake that even the “family” matters seem forced? Gary Gray, whose surprisingly strong remake of “The Italian Job” displayed a tremendous flair for comedic vehicular mayhem, waste the biggest budget of his career on such boring smash-ups? How does Charlize Theron (Furiosa!) sink this into a half-assed story of cyber-terrorism? How did Diesel and co. “The Fate of the Furious” is the “Die Another Day” of its franchise - an empty, generic shell of its former self that disrespects its own proud heritage at every turn.
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