Fate of the Furious (2017)
I much prefer to call this movie "8 Fast 8 Furious". I am a shameless fan of this terrible garbage franchise, but I think everyone who enjoys it is either completely without irony in their lives or is aware that it is terrible garbage. This is not a sophisticated movie, and this will not be a sophisticated review. Here are all of the things that were either very good or very bad about the eighth movie in a franchise that is no longer about street racing and is now about, apparently, stealing nuclear weaponry. Let's tackle this movie, list style. The good: Every scene containing Dwayne the Rock Johnson, particularly beating people up en masse They gave Jason Statham a lot more to do, and it was a lot of fun. The two should buddy comedy. Great action scenes Increasingly aware of its own ridiculousness - it pokes fun at itself, makes satisfying callbacks, and doesn't take itself too seriously Wonderfully and unapologetically unsubtle The bad: Charli...