Wild Speed: Ice Break (or Fast and the Furious 8 or The Fate of the Furious depending on how dumb you like your naming.)
It continues the trend of the last few movies by basically being an international spy action movie with lots of cars. Itâs like a Bond movie, if bond could drive 6 cool cars at once and was more into Family⢠barbecues.
Itâs not as good as 5 and 6, but itâs probably on a par with 7 (though without the added emotion if Brianâs departure).
Itâs completely dumb, lots of fun, the action and cgi are totally OTT by this point, The Rock continues to play The Terminator with more jokes⌠he seems to be essentially invulnerable at this point, plus able to redirect torpedoes with his bare hands, but somehow that doesnât seem out of place.
Given the series emphasis on Familyâ˘, itâs interesting how fluid their idea of it is. Former enemies are often welcomed into the family, with everyone seemly conveniently forgetting that they killed previous family members.
And yet, the movies remain great fun and the theme of Familyâ˘, no matter how flimsy if you think about it too much, makes them very feel good too.
Itâs weird that they introduced Scott Eastwood and then didnât really do much with him. I guess heâs the new Brian, but they didnât really need one in this one. Itâs also weird how much he looks like his dad.
PS/ After watching the movie I happened to glance at the sofa where my son had lined up all his toy cars in ranks⌠and I realized this franchise is effectively about playing with toy cars for boysmen(?) as heâs effectively recreated a scene from the movie.
