So what can I say about THE\u00a0FATE OF THE FURIOUS? Well, simply, this franchise has jumped the shark. Yea, yea, I know this latest installment has broken all sorts of box-office records\u2026 but that doesn\u2019t mean the movie is good.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t get me wrong, it\u2019s fun\u2026 but I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d call it \u201cgood\u201d.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s funny too. Shortly before actually seeing this latest trip into the FF world, came across an article,\u00a0Why Vin Diesel and the \u2018Fast and the Furious\u2019 Franchise Should Eye the Exit Ramp<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Though, unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock, and had no idea there was a new FAST & FURIOUS movie out, here\u2019s a quick rundown of the plot:<\/p>\n With Dom and Letty married, Brian and Mia retired and the rest of the crew exonerated, the globetrotting team has found some semblance of a normal life. They soon face an unexpected challenge when a mysterious woman named Cipher forces Dom to betray them all. Now, they must unite to bring home the man who made them a family and stop Cipher from unleashing chaos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But how this movie plays out is just so over the top! Like that article I mentioned earlier spoke to, definitely had followed the same path as other franchises I love, namely DIE HARD. I mean, the first movie, BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIE EVER. But that series just got crazier and crazier, when you can\u2019t help but get to the point where you were all like, \u201cWTF if happening here?!!!\u201d<\/p>\n I mean you know what I\u2019m talking about. Like the last DIE HARD movie, where at the beginning during the big chase scene\u2026 I mean, not only was that sequence WAY OVER THE TOP, but there was that one point where John McClane flips like 8 times in an armored truck, and comes out without a scratch.<\/p>\n Ridiculous!<\/p>\n THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS is pretty much like that: whole lot of crazy that REALLY PUSHES one\u2019s ability to suspend their disbelief. And to add harm to injury\u2026 it really feels like they\u2019ve taken these characters, in terms of who they are at they\u2019re core, to a place that\u2019s really not them, definitely a far cry from the crew\u2019s humble beginnings from a BBQ in the backyard.<\/p>\n But, beyond being a little over the top, one thing that bothered me about this installment was how they tried to force feed you the absence of Paul Walker. Who died during filming of FAST 7. I won\u2019t get into it here, because it\u2019s a little bit of SPOILER TERRITORY, <\/strong>but if you\u2019re really interested, it\u2019s summed up in the link I mentioned at the start of this article, which you can also check it out\u00a0here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n At the end of the day, it was a fun movie, just not a good movie. Hey the two are not mutually exclusive, haha. But if you\u2019re looking to give this a go, I\u2019d wait for a rental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So what can I say about THE\u00a0FATE OF THE FURIOUS? Well, simply, this franchise has jumped the shark. Yea, yea, I know this latest installment has broken all sorts of box-office records\u2026 but that doesn\u2019t mean the movie is good. Don\u2019t get me wrong, it\u2019s fun\u2026 but I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d call it \u201cgood\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[139,297],"class_list":{"0":"post-1351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"category-reviews","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-the-fate-of-the-furious","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}