The Fate of the Furious
Universal Pictures | Release Date: April 14, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 45 Critic Reviews
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88
ObserverOliver JonesApr 14, 2017
I lost count but the word “family” is mentioned upwards of 50 times, many more times than it is in, say, Lilo & Stitch. Yes, it is way too much, like everything else in this aggressively over-the-top film, but at the same time, it just feels nice to be part of the group. Read full review
88
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonApr 13, 2017
Diesel and Johnson are at their testosterone-charged best. Theron, who seems to be auditioning to become the next Bond villain, is ruthlessness personified. Read full review
83
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallApr 12, 2017
The Fate of the Furious doesn't merely suspend disbelief, it expels it like a delinquent student told to never come back. Read full review
83
The PlaylistKimber MyersApr 9, 2017
The Fate of the Furious is almost impossible not to like. It achieves exactly what it sets out to do, successfully lighting up the brain’s pleasure centers at each opportunity with a variety of tools in its arsenal. Read full review
80
Village VoiceKristen Yoonsoo KimApr 10, 2017
The biggest show is, naturally, saved for last.... Nothing in all of the Fast & Furious movies has ever felt bigger or more ridiculous — two things F8 rightfully thrives on. It’s exhilarating. Now how will they top this one? Read full review
80
VarietyOwen GleibermanApr 9, 2017
The Fate of the Furious is nothing more than pulp done smart, but scene for scene it’s elegant rather than bombastic, and it packs a heady escapist wallop. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesApr 12, 2017
What sets apart this eighth outing is its giggling bouts of male henpecking, all puffed feathers and nyah-nyah taunts. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzApr 13, 2017
If the fate of the Furious series is to grow somehow both wearier and dumber with age, then the eighth film is proof of a mission firmly accomplished. And there’s no shame, Vin, in hanging it all up after a job well done. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTom RussoApr 12, 2017
Polar chaos notwithstanding, “Fate” delivers action with more consistent visual precision than in the last couple of films, as newly enlisted director F. Gary Gray accesses the flair he brought to 2003’s “The Italian Job.” Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldApr 12, 2017
The movie zips along quickly, full of popcorn-worthy moments. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleApr 12, 2017
The action is not just big — big is easy. It’s creative. It’s choreographed. It’s unexpected and delightful. It’s lots of fun and a stark contrast to the previous film, “Furious 7,” which was huge but flat, just commotion without inspiration. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittApr 12, 2017
Your mileage may vary when it comes to the over-the-top carnage and in-your-face machismo, but it’s impressive just how bonkers Fate is, like a litter of kittens hopped up on grade-A catnip. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversApr 11, 2017
The Fate of the Furious doesn't have a thought in its head to match the best of Bond and Bourne. What it is, in every sense of the term, is insanely entertaining. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattApr 9, 2017
The movie Tokyo-drifts into tedium in its more chaotic, casually gruesome chase scenes, and the “serious” dialogue is so consistently clunky it feels like it’s been carved from woodblocks with a dull butterknife. Thankfully, it’s frequently also much funnier and lighter on its feet than previous outings, and a lot of that credit goes to Statham and Johnson. Read full review
70
Screen DailyDavid D'ArcyApr 9, 2017
The spectacle gives you enough action from enough famous names to sustain the momentum of its legacy. Read full review
65
The VergeBryan BishopApr 10, 2017
Gray’s prosaic style robs Fate of the Furious of any real sense of self-awareness or humor, which could never be said about Lin or Wan’s installments. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliApr 13, 2017
“Dumbing down” was coined for productions like this: big, splashy, testosterone-fueled monstrosities whose sole purpose is to give a studio box office bragging rights for a few weeks. Read full review
63
Washington PostStephanie MerryApr 13, 2017
“Fate” gives fans of the franchise exactly what they want, provided they can ditch logic as easily as the movie does. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoApr 12, 2017
The Fate of the Furious distinctly drops the level of quality in this series for the first time this decade. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisApr 12, 2017
Zoom, crash, repeat with squealing, burning and flaming tires — it’s all predictably absurd and self-mocking, and often a giggle when not a total yawn. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRobbie CollinApr 12, 2017
It’s an odd sensation to watch a Fast & Furious film and find yourself wishing the special effects lived up to the writing, but – well, here we are. Read full review
60
Total FilmJamie GrahamApr 11, 2017
A very big, exceedingly dumb thrill ride. Read full review
60
The GuardianGwilym MumfordApr 10, 2017
This is a big dumb action movie in its purest, most honourable sense: fast, furious and frequently fun. Read full review
60
EmpireChris Hewitt (1)Apr 10, 2017
Fast 8 is more of the same, more or less, with the emphasis heavily on more. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonApr 10, 2017
Overall, there’s a sense that ‘Fast and Furious 8’ knows exactly where it wants to go and won’t bust a gasket getting there: you might ask for a little more character work here, a few more plot surprises there, but on the whole this rattles along just fine. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeApr 9, 2017
Fate delivers exactly what fans have come to expect, for better and for worse. Read full review
58
The Film StageConor O'DonnellApr 14, 2017
While The Fate of the Furious is an unquestionably enjoyable outing, it’s beginning to feel a lot like fatigue on a long-enduring franchise. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyApr 12, 2017
More so than in any of the other movies, Dom’s wrecking crew of car nuts comes across like survival-of-the-speediest tacho-fascists, high-fiving their way through a path of destruction and to a collateral death toll that one presumes now numbers in the hundreds. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 18, 2017
There are disposable characters, and not just the villain’s minions. But one of the dumber elements of these movies is how so few of the actual leads, friend or foe, from previous pictures seem to stay dead. Read full review
50
SlateSam AdamsApr 14, 2017
With The Fate of the Furious, it feels like the movies have gotten as big as they can get, and the gleeful absurdity that drove them is losing ground to the specter of obligation. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartApr 13, 2017
In my favorite scene, Hobbs leads his tween daughter’s soccer team in a haka (Maori war dance) to intimidate their rivals. Can’t wait for “Fast and Furious 11: No Boys Allowed.” Read full review
50
ScreenCrushE. Oliver WhitneyApr 13, 2017
There’s certainly a lot to enjoy in The Fate of the Furious, but even the strongest moments are less spectacular this time around. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperApr 13, 2017
The problem this time around is the plot is particularly idiotic, the supposedly snappy quips are lame and come at some weirdly inappropriate moments — and it’s all delivered in an extremely bloated package. Read full review
50
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoApr 12, 2017
This is just the sweeps-week Fast And Furious that jumps the shark, ready to right itself come next season – and it better. Dominic Toretto’s team deserves to go out in a blaze of glory, not a slippery skid that can’t be controlled. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzApr 12, 2017
Really, the movie is the third cheeseburger, the fourth beer, the fifth ice-cream sandwich. It’s gluttony, which is kind of enjoyable when you’re in the middle of committing it but leaves you feeling sluggish and remorseful later when you’ve had time to think about it. Read full review
50
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerApr 12, 2017
Even as Fate has its fun and chases its highs (a few of which are pretty satisfying), it’s hard to shake the growing sensation that the bloom might be coming off the rose. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaApr 12, 2017
The action has become incoherent, largely past the point of enjoyability. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsApr 12, 2017
It's ridiculous but fun, as it careens from Havana to Berlin and icy, terrorist-ridden Russia played by Iceland, and a spit-ton of medium-grade digital effects. But the second hour gets to be a real drag, and not the racing kind. Read full review
42
IndieWireDavid EhrlichApr 9, 2017
F8 is the worst of these films since “2 Fast 2 Furious,” and it may be even worse than that. It’s the “Die Another Day” of its franchise — an empty, generic shell of its former self that disrespects its own proud heritage at every turn. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangApr 13, 2017
The series seems to have at last entered its frustrating, decadent, spinning-its-wheels phase. Read full review
40
TheWrapDan CallahanApr 9, 2017
There is only one inventive action sequence here. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineJake ColeApr 12, 2017
The film finally tips the franchise over from modestly thoughtful stupidity into tedious, loud inanity. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsAmy RoweApr 12, 2017
Is it so much to ask for dialogue that doesn’t make you roll your eyes throughout “F8”? Or, you know, a story that adds up? Read full review
20
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottApr 12, 2017
"Fast and Furious" movies are supposed to be unchallenging, but Fate of the Furious is full-on brain-dead. Read full review
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Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternApr 13, 2017
Who am I to call it soulless, graceless, witless, incoherent — even for the franchise — and, not incidentally, brain-numbingly long at 136 minutes? Read full review
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