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Director F. Gary Gray
Starring Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Charlize Theron
Rating M
Running time 136 minutes
Verdict Full-throttle franchise still has fuel
BIG, loud, fast, dumb fun — without any brakes.
That’s F. Gary Gray’s brief for the eighth film in this seemingly unstoppable franchise and he sticks to it.
But while Fate of the Furious is driven by the same nitrous oxide-fuelled engine as its hugely successful predecessors, the Straight Outta Compton director and his team make their mark with a few attention-grabbing accessories.
The crooks and villains in this turbocharged pursuit of a cyberterrorist bent on global domination (Charlize Theron and Helen Mirren) pop in a similar manner to their counterparts in a comic book adaptation
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