For others, that ramp and that shark have never loomed closer in the oncoming distance.Īs is custom, The Fate of the Furious picks up with Dominic Toretto (Diesel) living the quiet life he tends to enjoy between periodic fits of car-fueled mayhem. For some, it’ll scratch the itch of wild, sandbox-style action that’s become the series’ house style. Fate is a spy thriller about mercenaries whose specialties happen to involve vehicular stunts, and as part of a whole, no Furious film to date has felt less like a part of the franchise. The Fate of the Furious continues that escalation, and raises the stakes to the point where it often bears little resemblance to the street-racing humble beginnings of the franchise, or even the terrorist hunting of the past few movies.
Since Fast Five, the series has committed itself to increasingly elaborate stunts that push the plausible boundaries of what can be done with car-based action as a loose framework. It managed to strike a tone that more and more modern action films chase, but fail to reach it was ridiculous and yet just a little bit poignant, excessive while also welcoming the audience, as if to say “we get it, and we know exactly what you want from these, so here we go.” Not only was it a massive success, and one of the highest-grossing films of 2015, but it was also oddly well-regarded for a movie that prominently featured Vin Diesel jumping a supercar between three skyscrapers in Dubai. Furious 7 was always going to be a tough act to follow, and there’s a sentence you’d have been hard-pressed to write with a straight face a decade ago, when the Furious franchise was rapidly Tokyo Drifting its way into near-collapse.
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