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It is an American action film directed by F. Gary Gray and written by Chris Morgan and it was realized in 2017

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Speeding onto cinema screens this week is Fast & Furious 8 - the latest entry in the blockbuster Fast & Furious series of motoring-based action thrillers. In it, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Vin Diesel reprise their roles as macho petrol heads stood between us and the baddies bent on global destruction. There's submarines, 'zombie' sports cars, The Rock punching a missile and a killer soundtrack to boot. In fact, some of hip-hop's biggest names wrote new tunes exclusively for the film. Here are eight of the most explosive that match the action on-screen.

1. Young Thug, 2chainz, Wiz Khalifa & PnB Rock - 'Gang Up'

Released several months ago, 'Gang Up' features four of rap's hungriest young scallywags, all fighting for space on one track. "All we gotta do is stay down and come up while they flexin", husks Young Thug over doomy synths and boom-clap beats, before Philly MC PnB Rock adds a catchy refrain and the notoriously chill Wiz Khalifa pops up for a song-stealing verse. It's very much the collective vibe and chimes perfectly with the movie's squad ethic.

2. G-Eazy & Kehlani - 'Good Life'

Kehlani's been making waves for a while now, but featuring on the soundtrack for the biggest film of the year is still massive even by her standards. Watch her team up with West Coast artist G-Eazy on this sun-kissed party anthem featuring one of 2017's most euphoric choruses.

3. Lil Uzi Vert, Quavo & Travis Scott - 'Go Off'

Things get pretty fiery on this aptly-named collaboration from three of America's hottest hip-hop prospects. It might start slowly with a delicately hummed intro from Quavo, but by Travis Scott's final frantic chants of "I'ma go off", the track is well and truly cookin'.

4. Migos - 'Seize The Block'

That's not the last we see of Quavo either. He appears on another track, this time as part of chart-topping viral sensations Migos. 'Seize The Block' is all rumbling bass drops and sinister keyboard drones, setting the scene nicely for any motor-racing-themed skulduggery Vin Diesel gets up to on screen.

5. Lil Yachty - 'Mamacita' (Feat. Rico Nasty)

Two years ago, red-headed rapper Lil Yachty was still in High School. Now he's rubbing shoulders with Hollywood heavyweights on the Fast and Furious 8 soundtrack. His Tango-flecked offering 'Mamacita' might have a distinctly Hispanic flavour, but with it's light-hearted piano licks and stick-in-your-head refrain it's still the poppiest track on this list.

6. PnB Rock, Kodak Black & A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie - 'Horses'

" I just wanna do the dash, put my pedal to the gas/Going so fast, hope I don't crash" sings PnB Rock on this. Landing somewhere between M83's Midnight City and Kanye's auto-tuned masterpiece 'Love Lockdown', 'Horses' is a fawning peaen to the metallic stallions that rule Fast and Furious 8.

7. Bassnectar - 'Speakerbox' (Feat. Ohana Bam & Lafa Taylor)

Lorin Ashton, aka US DJ Bassnectar sets pulses racing on the primal 'Speakerbox'. The intense electro-dubstep track builds gradually to a menacing climax before a drop of epic proportions brings us back to earth with a bump. Ouch.

8. J Balvin & Pitbull - 'Hey Ma' (Feat. Camila Cabello)

The self-proclaimed 'Mr Worldwide' Pitbull doesn't really fit the bill of a muscle-bound leadfoot, but that doesn't stop him starting a riot on the Fast and Furious 8 soundtrack. 'Hey Ma' is a good-time party anthem that'll have you dancing in no time.
'Fast and Furious 8: The Album' is out on Atlantic Records on Friday April 14

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Speeding onto cinema screens this week is Fast & Furious 8 - the latest entry in the blockbuster Fast & Furious series of motoring-based action thrillers. In it, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Vin Diesel reprise their roles as macho petrol heads stood between us and the baddies bent on global destruction.

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They were Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Scott Eastwood, Nathalie Emmanuel, Elsa Pataky, Kurt Russell and Charlize Theron.

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This is one of the all positives review there are.

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Discounting any movie with cars that turn into robots, they don't come much bigger and louder and dumber than the "Fast and Furious" movies.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. It's fun to visit a turbo-charged, Prius-free world where the laws of physics, not to mention all traffic regulations, are merely a suggestion.

But the laws of being an outrageously successful but aging Hollywood franchise can't be escaped. "The Fate of the Furious," the eighth installment in what started out as B-movie escapism back in 2001 and mushroomed into a phenomenon, has everything the franchise's fans crave and moments that are still a heck of a lot of fun.

Yet as the big climax roars through what's supposed to be a frosty Siberia (it's actually Iceland) with stunts that try to outdo what's been done before, it's hard not to feel that the whole thing might be on thin ice.

Beyond the fast cars, big muscles and barely clad women, the "F&F" films have been about one thing: family. This multiracial crew of careening crime fighters may not have much in terms of blood relatives but they have always been righteously ride-or-die for each other.

That was especially true in the last film, "Furious 7," with its sweet farewell to late actor Paul Walker, who played the beloved character Brian.

This time out, director F. Gary Gray ("Straight Outta Compton") and writer Chris Morgan (who has written six of the "F&F" films) play with that concept by turning Dom (Vin Diesel) into a rogue agent in the employ of the dastardly terrorist/hacker/villain called Cipher. (Though this territory had been toyed with in "F&F 6" when Dom's love interest Letty, played by Michelle Rodriguez, went to the dark side.)

Now, Cipher has hatched some nefarious plan to take over the world by stealing a secret weapon from the Germans as well as the Russian nuclear codes. She needs someone of Dom's driving skills and she tracks him down in Cuba where he's leading a life of tropical bliss with Letty.

She makes him an offer he can't refuse and then, bang, it's on. The rest of the crew and their allies in the feds - Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson), Tej (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges), Roman (Tyrese Gibson), Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel), Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell), and new addition Little Nobody (Scott Eastwood) - now have to hunt Cipher as well as one of their own.

Cipher is so evil that the good guys even need to recruit the bad guy from the last movie, Deckard (Jason Statham), to be on their side.

Of course, none of it matters as it's all just an excuse to show off speeding cars in exotic locations. The opening chase through the cluttered streets of Havana is a hoot (that sound you just heard? Yeah, that's Fidel spinning in his grave like a blender).

The humor has also been cranked up a notch, thanks to the biting, and often very funny, back and forth between frenemies Hobbs and Deckard. Not to mention, there's the continued need for Roman to prove his worth as both a ladies' man and a hero.

Yet as the movie lumbers on, it becomes increasingly frustrating. While the stunts involving a huge wrecking ball, "zombie" driverless cars on a rampage, and a nuclear sub are huge, none is as impressive as some of the big moments of the past. There's nothing as jaw-dropping as the last movie's cars leaping from skyscraper to skyscraper set piece or the chase with a tank in "Furious 6."

"The Fate of the Furious" is a comedown from the gas-fume highs of the last three films, easily the best movies in the series. While it's far too soon to say that the franchise is running on empty, it looks like someone has been putting water in the fuel tank.

Director: F. Gary Gray

Cast: Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Charlize Theron

Rated: PG-13 (prolonged sequences of violence and destruction, suggestive content, and strong language)

Running time: 136 min.

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'The Fate of the Furious' sputters across the finish line | Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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Discounting any movie with cars that turn into robots, they don't come much bigger and louder and dumber than the "Fast and Furious" movies. That's not necessarily a bad thing. It's fun to visit a turbo-charged, Prius-free world where the laws of physics, not to mention all traffic regulations, are merely a suggestion.

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The Fate of the Furious (F. Gary Gray, 2017) 1 out of 4 stars.

Is this film worth reviewing? As the eighth in a heretofore lucrative series - which began in 2001 with The Fast and the Furious - it's probably critic-proof. Those who have journeyed along since the beginning, joined and caught up since then, or just jumped aboard the caravan with the last film, ( the highest earner, to date, of the bunch), are all probably going to go see The Fate of the Furious, irrespective of what I or any other film critic has to say. That's often how franchises work, pulling in spectators with hyped-up brand pre-awareness. Still, goods must be delivered, even to fans, and I'm here to tell you that movie #8 does not deliver. Forget dumb fun; it's just dumb.

There are the occasional moments of creative mayhem, but director F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton) too often overwhelms the creativity with said mayhem. More explosions do not a better action sequence make (there is one nicely staged fight scene in a prison that surprised me, however). I will admit, having never managed to sit through an entire entry in the series before, that I am not the target audience, but at least what I had previously seen was well-choreographed. Having recently watched Edgar Wright's upcoming masterful car-chase film at the SXSW Festival, I had, perhaps, expectations of brilliant mise-en-scène, which were not matched, nor even glimpsed from afar. Still, the boys (and two girls) are back, with some new villains to oppose them, and so that might be enough to rake in the bucks.

Returning are Vin Diesel (, for my money his more interesting series), Michelle Rodriguez (), Dwayne Johnson (), actor/singer Tyrese Gibson (), actor/rapper Ludacris () and Nathalie Emmanuel (). Only Diesel and Rodriguez have starred since inception: Gibson and Ludacris were added in the second film, Johnson came aboard in #5, and Emmanuel in #7. Jason Statham (), a villain last time, is back in a more flexible role. The big addition is Charlize Theron (), who replaces Statham as the baddie. As an actress, she certainly is capable of oozing evil charm (see Snow White and the Hunstman), but she is here saddled with such obviously nefarious lines that we keep on expecting her to cackle on delivery. In today's politically sexist climate, I would never want to tell a woman to shut up, yet all I could think whenever Theron was on screen was, "Please, stop talking" (or find a better screenwriter).

What plot there is defies easy explanation. No, that's not true. There's stuff the team must get, and the only way to get it is to drive fast, shoot a lot of people (so much collateral damage!), and then evade capture and death in ever-more ludicrous situations. That's easy. What's hard is explaining the logic of it, how A leads to B, all the way to Z, without the rest of the letters rising up in narrative revolt. The central conflict centers around Dom (Diesel), who is forced to work against his comrades for reasons that remain murky until halfway through, and which probably could have been circumvented had he chosen to discuss them with his wife (Rodriguez) and friends, rather than set his jaw firmly and drive on. None of any of that would matter, however, if the action were at all appealing. Isn't that the point of these movies? Fast ... and furious? More like boring and irritating. Can't wait for #9 ...

About chrisreedfilm

Christopher Llewellyn Reed is a film critic, filmmaker, and educator. A member of the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic, he is lead film critic at hammertonail.com, an online magazine devoted to independent cinema; a regular film critic here at filmfestivaltoday.com; the host of Dragon Digital Media's award-winning "Reel Talk with Christopher Llewellyn Reed"; a film commentator for the "Roughly Speaking" podcast with Dan Rodricks at "The Baltimore Sun"; and the author of "Film Editing: Theory and Practice." In addition, he is one of three co-creators, along with Summre Garber of Slamdance and Bart Weiss of Dallas VideoFest, of "The Fog of Truth" (fogoftruth.com) - available on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher - a podcast devoted to documentary cinema.

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Fast? Furious? "The Fate of the Furious" Bores and Irritates

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Fast & Furious 8 - Official Trailer 1 (Universal Pictures) HD

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This is my favorite scene because Dom is trying to escape from the others, and it was a very exciting chase. I love it

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New York Chase Scene | The Fate of the Furious (2017) Movie Clip