Fast and Furious

[Drunk Monk]

The F8 of the Furious - brilliant title F8 for installment 8. It's the only bit that's passingly intelligent about this franchise. S&T went to tour UCSD today so I had to pick them up at SJC late and had to kill a few hours and F8 fit perfectly in that window. And like the rest of the furious franchise, it's dumb. Painfully absurdly unapologetically dumb. In fact, if you stop to think about anything in F8, even the most trifling detail, the overwhelming dumbness unravels everything. But as long as you don't do that, it's not boring. Funny quips. Hot cars. Gratuitous gear shifting. Lots of explosions. Crashes aplenty. Fireballs. Full auto gunplay. Silly physics. Roid driven banter. Wobbly cam shot fights but still enjoyable. For a moment, I even regretted skipping F7, because the plot would make more sense, but then I was like 'plot? Srsly?' Charlize was a really good villainess. Stole the show. She made up for the lack of MMA hotties like from the last two installments. Sort of a warm up for Atomic Blonde. Luv Charlize. I'd watch her floss. I'm sure that would be mesmerizing. Charlize flossing in slo-mo. Yeah, I'd watch that in IMAX 3D. I can hardly wait for Atomic Blonde. But I wouldn't recommend F8 unless you just wanna get really dumb. Murica dumb. Actually worldwide dumb because F8 killed it at the box office all over the planet. Make Murica dumb again. The future's so dumb, I gotta wear shades.