When we look back at the 16-year evolution of "The Fast and the Furious", we can easily find the different temperaments of this series of films at different stages: from emphasizing streets to emphasizing police and bandits, from emphasizing racing to Emphasis on action, from individual heroes to team strength. But what is valuable is the sense of family/collectivity as always, which is also an important source of the lasting vitality of this series.
Although "Fast and the Furious 8" is not the most "fast" in the entire series, it is likely to be the most "passionate". Before this series is not yet, but will eventually rush into space to save the universe, before the four wheels of the car can run on the ground and in the water, this series of movies created by the fanatics of explosions and fights, after the After a complete set of "Harry Potter" and a complete set of "Star Wars" sequels, they can still maintain a good and absurd innovation and "innovation", challenging themselves step by step, from skyscrapers in Abu Dhabi to Moscow's The big submarine, the change of the director, and the death of the main actor did not prevent the continuation of its style and temperament.
If you must choose a stupid, brainless, action blockbuster full of computer effects and explosions, "The Fast and the Furious" after 2008 is one of the best choices.
For a film of this scale, there is a lot of material to choose from, and very little to choose from. So when we see a highly rotten stalk that has been soaked and moldy in major spy movies, and it is also a "hacker situation" that has been talked about in "Extreme Agent 3" and "Fast and Furious 6&7", It's time to realize that it's time to ditch the brain.
But the best thing about Fast and the Furious is that no amount of ridiculous car stunts seem too ridiculous. The Cuban race at the opening of Fast & Furious 8 is not only a nostalgic and reminder of where the entire series started 16 years ago, but also the legacy of "Rush Out of Compton" director, F. Gary Gray, on this long-lived series personal imprint. It doesn't really matter what kind of God's driving skills make Don't win, but Gary Gray's combination of overhead, POV and low angles can bring any clichéd racing game to life. Although slow motion is a bit overused, the moment at the end has never been so dramatic in this series.
For a modern blockbuster action movie, we can leave software like acting and scripting aside, but it has to be technically unique. If we were to categorize action movies into a hierarchy of good and bad, at the top of the pyramid would be nihilistic masterpieces like Mad Max: Fury Road. And the next level, probably 007, "Bourne Bourne", the best one in the "Mission Impossible" series. As for the large number of dispensable defective products at the bottom, they are probably a large number of B-level pieces of the assembly line. And somewhere in the middle, it's The Fast and the Furious.
At first, the collection was a pure "all about race" full of American features, but over time it slowly turned into an international luxury platter. If this series has taught us anything over the past 16 years, it's that every time you think it's running out of steam, Boss Tang can always pull a higher concentration of adrenaline from some pocket . And "Fast and Furious 8" is the most spectacular result of this approach.
The Fast and the Furious franchise will likely never reach the higher levels of the pyramid due to years of abandonment treatment at the story level, but that doesn't prevent it from being one of the most massive and dazzling members of the entire mid-level.
One of the reasons is because Fast and Furious 8 is more hodgepodge than any of its predecessors, and as the start of a new subseries, you can see representative elements from all levels. From the perspective of the execution of these elements, it is nothing but good, but F. Gary Gray's clever tricks make the dizzying action scenes look beautiful and not exaggerated-you know, there are still hands in this film. Pushing missiles and submarines chasing cars - it's a technical job.
In addition to technology, another factor that determines the life and death of action movies is the character design. The vast majority of Jason Statham movies don't die in action design, but in character design. "Family" is the core of the narrative, which enables the paper people of stereotype to hug together, and also shortens the distance between the characters and the audience-opening is that human destiny does not necessarily improve the character's image, but it uses family cards to cultivate the audience. It can't go wrong.
Of the newly introduced characters, Helen Mirren's character deserves more playing time, but the relatively best performers of the entire film are Kurt Russell, Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson. Kurt Russell improved the visibility of literary drama, and the "Fast and Furious" series was a career booster for Dwayne Johnson, successfully opening the blockbuster for him to be ignored market and space. It is also Wu Ke, who has more audience relationship than Fan Diesel. The so-called behind-the-scenes tearing is not surprising. After succeeding Paul Walker as the second male lead, he established his unshakable important position in this series.
Compared with the former two, Jason Gouda Statham's role is actually nothing special, but makes full use of Statham's natural charm - this approach is quite similar to "The Female Spy". Most of the time, we don't ask for how great an action actor is, but it's only when he meets a character that can really bring out his personality that we remember him.
Most franchises, under the constant overdraft of eight sequels, are exhausting. But not The Fast and the Furious. Created by Justin Lin, Fan Diesel's continued life and continued life of this blockbuster action film, with its continuous creativity, proves that its commercial success is not a coincidence.
Fast and Furious 8 delivers a successful visual spectacle, an upgraded version of Justin Lin's era, and it's also smoother than James Wan's predecessor (after all, there are no emergencies).
Luckily, this already-overgrown franchise isn't as stupid as it seems, and certainly not smarter.
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