![]() ![]() 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 did Diesel and co. ![]() It’s the “Die Another Day” of its franchise - an empty, generic shell of its former self that disrespects its own proud heritage at every turn. “F8” is the worst of these films since “2 Fast 2 Furious,” and it may be even worse than that. Sure, the last two installments of this hi-octane soap opera have fallen well short of the nigh-perfect “Fast Five,” and it’s increasingly clear that “Tokyo Drift” will never be topped for sheer personality (or sick drifting, natch), but the series has weathered all sorts of ridiculousness - even amnesia! - because it’s never betrayed the fundamental bonds that hold it together. Where these movies are going, they don’t need roads. What started in 2001 as a modestly budgeted “Point Break” ripoff has exploded into one a box office behemoth the size of James Bond, and Dom’s crew has evolved from a gang of low-rent gearheads into an international unit of government-funded super spies or something.Īnd that’s awesome. Welcome back to the ever-expanding world of the Fast and the Furious, where family comes first, physics comes a distant second, and logic blew a flat tire like three movies ago. ![]() Dom throws an arm around his wife, Letty ( Michelle Rodriguez), Fidel Castro rolls in his grave, and the title card skids onto the screen. The loser surrenders his keys: “You win my car, and you win my respect.” They’re brothers now. So they race, the Cuban dude in a souped up beauty, and Dom in a rustbucket that hasn’t been touched since the Bay of Pigs - all the better for him to growl that it “doesn’t matter what’s under the hood.” A few pyrotechnics and a shot of NOS later, and a mob of smiling kids is surrounding Dom like he’s brought them all candy. ‘Lost Ladies’ Review: Kiran Rao’s Delightful Hindi Comedy Swings and Wins ![]()
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