![]() We had authentic fire for most of it, but when we started picking the speeds up, we found out the fire was getting inside the car, and the stunt guy just couldn't take it anymore, so we had to turn the fire down and augment the fire with a bigger fire for the ending. "The only thing we had trouble with was about the first quarter of the race, the car catches on fire. Where’s all her vampy Oscar-caliber scenery chewing? The role begs for it.How real is it? "It was 99% all real," Jack Gill said. ![]() Her vixen is more robotic than ruthless and spends too much time in cutaway shots barking orders into a Bluetooth gizmo. And shockingly, Theron fails to fill the void. It’s needed: Paul Walker’s former cop Brian O’Connor is now living happily with his wife on a beach somewhere, but, IRL, his absence is greatly felt. Self-deprecating Gibson and Ludracris also provide much comic relief. Former enemies Johnson and Statham insult each other in such descriptive, expletive detail that one exchange ends with them cracking up. ![]() Instead, F8 squeaks by on the considerable charm of its chummy cast - half of the guys, including the underutilized Eastwood, can carry a movie on their broad shoulders. ![]() Though perhaps there’s irony in a set piece featuring “zombie” vehicles driving themselves. Gary Gray ( Straight Outta Compton) are solid, if nothing to drive home about. The requisite extended chase scenes, as directed by F. Only in the F&F universe can a serious global threat be treated as a tedious narrative detail. There’s a lot of talk about a nuclear football. Passports are (presumably) stamped in Berlin, New York City and some ice fortress in Russia as the gang tries to stop Theron & Co. Dwayne Johnson in ‘Fate of The Furious.’ Matt Kennedy/Universal Studios ![]()
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