Gary Gray (“ Straight Outta Compton”), this one opens in Havana, where the young local beauties swirling around Dom and Letty move and dress more or less like the other young beauties in the series, as if they were part of a continuing global house party, this time with Che Guevara and prettily peeling buildings.īoth the old cars and Dom’s unsteadiness set up a movie that clearly still needs to contend with Mr. They’re shed over time but before they are, the movie does what’s expected, which is cut loose attractive characters in different choreographed formations in assorted machines and locales.
Walker’s death, as do the tears that fall in the story.
The new movie’s title, “The Fate of the Furious,” seems like a nod to the lingering existential crisis created by Mr. It’s what has always bound Dom to his wife, Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), and the rest of his crew, most crucially Brian, the cop-turned-soul-partner played by Paul Walker, who died in an off-set car collision in 2013. It’s what connects this franchise to its fans, another kind of family, though one that pays to sit down at the table.
It’s the idea that has held the franchise together - movie to movie, race to race, prayer to prayer - in an episodic soap about kith, kin and custom cars. Family is the most important word in these movies, the one that’s dropped with moist emotion and hushed Sunday-sermon reverence.
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