Was Fate of the Furious good? or is it the same ol' stuff...

[CinemaConvenience]

Just watched The Fate of the Furious tonight, and personally, I loved the movie. However, after trying to view the movie from a different perspective, one more critical, I have come to realize a lot of resemblance. The movie script was solid. A strong plot with its twists and turns to pull you to the edge of the seat. Cars seem to vroom faster, and the action seems to become more furious. There were many surprises that managed to keep the viewers' attention. On top of the action and fast cars, the movie, once again, came with its humorous side, thanks to Roman. Time to time, we get Hobbs' one-liners, funny reactions from Tez, and Roman doing what he does best, simply being Roman. Overall, I loved the movie, and it might just be my favorite one.

Now let's take a step back and see the movie from a different perspective. Has the franchise tired out their same old repetitive schemes. What I mean by that, is just how much faster and how much more furious can it get. However, it just seems like the details change but the foundation remains the same. As you can see, the plots are all starting to sound a bit familiar. It starts with someone, equipped with a plan accompanied by an evil mind set, comes along and disrespects Dom's honor code of family. This is how majority of the conflicts arise from the franchise, and how is it resolved? The answer is sticking together with your family, working as a unit, driving fast cars carrying big guns, and exploding the public until the villain is captured or killed. As many may find it easy to settle for the new details in this repeating plot, there are few that can see the series as redundant and tiring. You know what wasn't redundant and tiring? The first three movies. Each one had a different motive, different conflict, and a different resolution. The franchise needs to switch it up, even for just one movie. My suggestion: throw in a spin-off similar to Tokyo Drift about the background or history of another character and how it meshed with the series plot we see today. Give it a different look. Answer people's questions, because there's a lot of background we don't know that I know some people may be interested in, especially after watching F8.

All-in-all, I still manage to love the movie and love the series. Although I know see the repetitive plots, I still love to see the different details, or stories. I know this is all biased because the Fast and the Furious series is one of my favorites, but I know there are some that may agree. Anyways, I would highly recommend seeing The Fate and the Furious, and let me know what you guys think!

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[ironpony]

I really liked the action scenes and felt they were inventive with new ideas of what to do with cars.

But I feel that the plot didn't really hold together that well maybe.

SPOILER

I don't get why the Cipher character needed Dom, when she has an army of terrorists working for her. She wanted Dom at first to slip the rug out from his team to steal the item, but then after Dom steals it, she still wants him to do work for her, even though he's a constant nuisance and danger for her to put up with, just to control him. So I didn't know what her drive or motivation with her was with him. I mean the way she talks to him about his ideologies and politics, she is literally obsessed with him and I didn't get why, or where it was all coming from.

I also felt that bringing back the Deckard character felt completely forced, and his transformation to good guy was forced as well, with no natural changeover.

Like the character Mr. Nobody, wants to hire Deckard to help. Why? He also has an army of government agents and why does he need the man he helped put in jail for crimes in the previous movie to help? And Deckard is not the same character at all. He is doing this for money but yet he does nice gestures such as putting ear phones over the baby, so the baby doesn't have to seem him shoot people, and then he turns the baby around, so the baby doesn't have to see him kill someone.

But this makes no sense to me because even though he is payed to help save the day which includes saving the baby, why is he so concerned about a baby being traumatized, when in the previous movie, he killed innocent people and innocent bystanders without remorse, such as blowing a hospital full of people if I recall correct. So his character change just comes out of nowhere, I felt.

I just feel that the plot didn't hold together near as well on this one. Is that a bad thing that ruins the whole movie... Not necessarily, but it does possibly make it the weakest entry perhaps.

[Iroquois]

It seems they were making the effort to give Deckard a code of honour and a soft side that puts him above someone like Cipher but that doesn't translate well when he seemingly faces no real consequences or reckoning for having killed Han. As for why Dom and Deckard keep getting used like this, it's obviously because they're the best of the best, it takes a thief to catch a thief, etc. Pick your cliché.

But yeah, it's definitely a weaker entry in the series.

[MovieMeditation]

I still love this franchise. I can't help it. And personally I really liked Fate... even for the obvious flaws.

[ironpony]

Well it's not that Deckard just kill Han he also blew up a building full of people if I remember correct. He goes from bloodthirsty mass murdering sociopath to someone who actually cares, and actually wants to save the day, and I just didn't get how he changed so much since the last movie.

And even if Cipher did have a reason actually need Dom, I didn't understand her personal obsession with him, or where that was coming from.

I mean I'm maybe nitpicking at this point, but everyone thinks that Dom has gone rogue and don't know why. However, Dom told Deckard's Mom what is really going on, and then the Mom told Deckard. So why didn't Deckard tell everyone else, instead of leading everyone to still believe he is a rogue threat then as well?