The cameos were both cool and annoying lol

This was alright, forgettable tbh but surprisingly it was kinda refreshing as this feels like a summer movie but we haven't really gotten a non comic book movie action film this summer yet. Idris Elba was kinda wasted tbh. Vanessa Kirby was pretty cool.

I had really fun time with this one. The Rock and Jason Statham's chemistry was really on point most of the time even if not all the jokes landed. I really enjoyed the fact that this felt like an action/buddy cop flick straight out of the 80 or 90's. Sure the plot doesn't make a whole lot of sense and all the action sequences are really over the top, but so are the latter F&F movies and I've been enjoying those movies for all those same reasons. I also, really liked how Idris Elba and Vanessa Kirby were utilized in this. The cameos from Helen Mirren and were pretty fun too. I didn't care too much for the cameo though.

B

The best film in all of the F&F franchise. Vin Diesel can GTFO.

Best time I had in a theater this year.

Entertaining in a brain liquefying way but objectively a bad movie with an ending that’s notably goofier than the previous two hours.

It's a lot of fun, as one would expect. All the actions scenes are crazy entertaining and the banter between the leads is mostly hilarious (The Rock definitely won the movie in this regard.) Vanessa Kirby is also awesome and I love that she is now a big part of two major action franchises, John Wick 4 should be calling her any day now.

The movie is about 20 minutes too long though. The Samoan battle was fun and all, but the time in between that and the escape in Russia was rough. Roman Reigns is more of a distraction than Reynolds and Hart combined and he doesn't even get any lines. It kind of felt like a Transformers movie near the end, with the action just continuing on and on while the villains try to achieve their ridiculously complex master plan. So they're gonna melt everyone's insides so they have to no choice but to replace their natural organs with nanobots? Righttttttt. I was also hoping they'd reveal the Fast version of Bluto here, but no such luck, I guess Keanu was busy.

So for 3/4ths of the runtime it is at your usual Fast quality standard (as in if you really like 5-8 then you will probably really like this), but it stumbles a bit near the end, when those movies, especially 5 and 6, ended so strong.

It's weird watching a feature-length uncut version of a film's trailer. That's literally what this is: one singular schtick, Shaw meeting-up and clashing and buddying-up with Hobbs, masquerading as an action flick. Has the same bombastic star-meets-star marketing tone, that "He's an [BLEEP]" line and Shaw's clapping in the elevator, etc; that self-conscious aesthetic of the trailers, is the tone of the whole first hour. And it doesn't work. The franchise elevated when the Rock joined because it went off-the-chain irreverent with its action set pieces; here it's taken that irreverence for granted, the focus going from heists and car racing to star-hype and character egos.

Idris plays a better adversary than expected, but the transformers shit with the motorbikes was like something from GI Joe, in a bad way. But the weirdest thing happens just after the halfway mark, when for fuck knows what reason, everyone suddenly goes to Samoa. Made as much sense as Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L Jackson jumping off the building at the beginning of The Other Guys; and fuck me was Hobbs' mother a shit actor, something made worse by the fact she looks younger than her son was supposed to be. That whole Samoan thing was like racist propaganda from the 40s, is how culturally superficial and needless it was. Clearly the Rock's own personal plot line he's wanted to have -- could've done a lot better if you ask me.

I dunno, it's watchable, sort of, but those last few Justin Lin-directed F&F entries have some of the best 80s-style action ever filmed, so it was never going to compare well. Would say it's better than Tokyo Drift, but way too lazy an effort to be in the mix with the rest.

D+

It's a pretty good time in the F&F universe. Johnson and Statham continue to play well off each other and the rest of the cast is good, the "celeb" supporting roles I thought worked especially well too. The action is no less than over the top, but I think it clicks with good choreography. The film does on on for too long and I got kind of got less interested in it as it went on. It might end up a bit forgettable, but it's entertaining enough to dub it a successful spin-off.

B

Johnson and Statham are great in this and they carry this movie throughout, providing the action as well as comic relief. Their banter is the best thing this series has done in the past. The movie stumbles in the final act with the Samoa arc but before that its on par 5-7 F&F movies.

C+