The Fate of the Furious

The Soap Opera Blockbuster

This movie is the eighth installment in the Fast and Furious series, and the best one yet. Unfortunately the movie itself doesn’t feature two major stars. These stars are Paul Walker, who was killed in a car crash, and Jordan Brewster. The movie does still have a star studded cast: Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, and many more. It begins with Dominic Toretto and Letty Ortiz as they are trying to settle down in Cuba after their wedding.

Plot

The movie starts off with Dominic and Letty enjoying their honeymoon in Cuba, when Dom finds out that his cousin is in trouble with a local racer. This isn’t serious trouble, but this cousin owes the select racer money and he can’t afford it. So Dominic’s response is to race him for his car to settle the argument, which he does, and ends up winning. After winning he gives the car to his cousin. The problem is solved at least for now. As Dominic and Letty are enjoying Cuba, Dom runs into a major criminal, in this case a cyberterrorist, by the name of Cipher. She forces him into working for her, because she’s holding someone hostage that he truly cares about. This hostage is his ex girlfriend and his child that he had with her.

So with Dom working for her, Cipher has Dom double cross his team, and steal the EMP (electromagnetic plus) for her from and military outpost in Berlin. Dom’s team and one of their former enemies band together to create a team headed by Mr. Nobody and his assistant. The team beings tracking Dom, and this leads them to New York. Dominic is in New York by orders of Cipher to steal a nuclear football from the Russian minister of defense. The team catches Dominic after he has the nuclear football in hand, and still manages to get away with his phenomenal driving skills. When Dominic returns to give the nuclear football to Cipher, she rep-remands him for his actions by not letting her team kill some members of Dom’s old team. What she does is kill Dominic’s ex girlfriend, who he fell in love with a couple movies ago.

With Cipher’s plan almost complete, she has Dom infiltrate a military base and emit the EMP, to disable all the electrons in the surrounding area. What this does is allow Cipher to hijack a nuclear submarine, and to try and trigger an entire nuclear war. With Cipher now having control of the submarine she plans to take it out into open water, but in response Dom has other plans for her submarine. Dominic manages to stop the submarine by averting the missiles that Cipher had fired from it, and managed to kill most of Cipher’s team in the process. With Dominic now back on the good side, he meets back up with his team as they take Cipher down fully.

The end is too good to spoil so I’ll let you watch that for yourself and tell me what you think!!

Rating

Overall this movie, and all the actors in it deserve an A. This movie was very close to perfect in my opinion, and there isn’t a single thing that I would change about it. This movie is the soap opera of all action movies as the leader of the team, or favorite good guy turns bad, and thats what makes this movie so perfect! I look forward to watching this movie every time I put it on, and I hope you do as well!!

How to watch the Fast & Furious Movies

(Here is the order you should watch the movies in, if you have never seen the Fast & Furious movie series before.)

1. The Fast and the Furious (2001)
2. 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
3. Fast & Furious (2009)
4. Fast Five (2011)
5. Fast and Furious 6 (2013)
6. The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
7. Furious 7 (2015)
8. The Fate of the Furious (2018)