Since I've seen Furious 7 in cinema I've learned a lot about movies. I've watched around 600movies since then, read about movies, wrote about movies.
Back then I said that I liked the movie, even though it was stupid.
Now it just didn't feel as fun to me. I still laughed a lot, I had a fun time. But by now it felt more like a bad movie than a good one. During the movie I actually started to wonder "will we watch a movie like this on the 500th Letterboxd Movie Night in lots of years from now? Is it mindless fun now but a few decades removed it will be a "how did this even get made?" Movie?
This time it felt much more stupid. So many dumb plotholes. But what's worse, all the fun from Furious 7 was gone. Reading back on my review I enjoyed the star-studded cast, enjoyed the ridiculous fights and the even more ridiculous stunts.
This time there were only 2 new big stars added: Scott Eastwood (I guess because the crew always needs at least one normal looking white boy) and Charlize Theron as the hacker Cypher.
And there weren't as many fight scenes. They turned the great bad guy that was Statham into a still great good guy, but it kinda went too fast. Also they teased this big fight between The Rock and Jason Statham that we never got.
In the end I was just disappointed by the stupidity and step down from the last movie. I'm rating this movie 2.5 out of 5 stars.
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