Fast and boring

The Fate of the Furious is the eighth movie in franchise. And I expected more. More… I don’t know. For me Fast and Furious “in one harness” with Pirates of the Caribbean. Yes, I understand, that they very different, but both have such atmosphere of adventure and action… So, I like them all. When many observers said that Pirates are the bottom of the franchise, but new Fast is superb, I was delighted. I liked the last Pirates, so Fast should be excellent!
But you read the heading and must understand — that’s not true.
(this review contains spoilers!!!)
Citius, Altius, Fortius! (Olympic motto)
Main problem of the movie — it is boring. Really, don’t understand. In the movie from which you expect action, action and only action this action is not interesting. Paradoxically. There are several interesting moments, for example race in the beginning, some moments on the Russian military base.
But all this flow of action flashes before eyes. And you are getting bored. Creators tried to put in movie more and more action, that it became a problem.

Old, old Diesel and his frenemy
For me Diesel is an actor of one role. He played himself. Man of the rock. But deep inside, he is very empathic. This is problem for many actors, that “find” their best roles and then play only them. But in Fast 8 you understand, how did Diesel got older. How old is he? Okay, wiki… 50! Sometimes camera was shooting him from different angles and you see this. Fast 8 shows, that a few more films and Diesel must change his “emploi” on scene. But he is good now. And he is first of the two reasons to watch movie.
Second reason is Jason Statham. He is a bright spot on this film.
Other comrades of Diesel can be characterized as The ROCK! I’m sorry, Dwayne Johnson, two Afro-Americans, smart girl, always dissatisfied Michelle Rodriguez and Kurt Russel’s guy. That’s all, what’s left after “10 friends of Diesel” from previous parts.

Character of Dwayne Johnson turned out to be uninteresting in this part. Agree, if the dancing of Maori’s haka with thirteen-year girls was only interesting moment for Hobbs, that means something.
Main villain (or Charlize Theron) was interesting character, but only on the beginning. Charming and incomprehensible… she ceased to be after several scenes with her. This is problem of the script, not Charlize. When villain only sitting indoors with computers and saying strange things — it is bad. Bad for image of villain. And her assistant — Kristofer Hivju (that red-beard guy from Game of the thrones). I understand that you can make terrible face. For a script you are nothing.

Script, script, script
This time writers decided to be original. Trailer told us, that Diesel is turning to evil. But in fact, all this is more prosaic. Yes, Diesel is forced to be evil. But because his son and some woman were captured by Charlize Theron. I didn’t re-watch all 7 films, so really, who is this woman? And why nobody didn’t know about his son? It’s like “Dom, where are you going?” “I’m going… for carrot. Will be late!” Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) — his beloved — didn’t know anything? But main villain knew!
And main question — why does she need Diesel? Does she have no money to pay for good specialists? But she have own plane with group of special forces. So, she have money. She sent Diesel himself on different tasks (important tasks). If he fails, the operation failed. What motivated the villain to such behavior? Because we need a conflict. And we need Diesel. So, script is simple with some rudiments of intrigue.

What are good in movie — that are shooting and cars. Scene on the Russian military base in the winter — beautiful.
But as a result, the whole movie is boring.
Also see my review on IMDb

