This was pretty good
Pros:
-For the most part if gave me everything I want in a Fast & Furious movie. They didn't top the car skydiving sequence or the car building jumping, but things were still cool
-Tyrese. I know he's a love him or hate him character, but I think he's hilarious. He's my favorite. My audience loved him too. I'd watch a movie with just him. Loved his "shining" moment in Iceland too
-Statham. When he first showed up and had that back in forth in prison with The Rock, I thought his acting even by this series' standards was terrible. He made all these weird facial expressions. But after that he was great. His action scenes were awesome. They really need to make a Shaw family spin off
-Theron. Best villain easily. I wish she was more of a physical presence and actually fought but she was great. Don't know why they gave her the white trash vacation Predator dreads though...
-I liked Scott Eastwood's character. He was crazy good or anything but I thought he played his role well. They should expand him and give him some story in the future. On another note: how are you going to be the son of Clint Eastwood and every role I see you in your constantly the butt monkey/getting constantly punked
Cons
-The main flaw: something was missing and I don't know what. And before anyone says anything it wasn't Paul Walker. All due respect to the dead, but even after the 4th movie (they really f***ed up not calling it "4 the Fast & the Furious") he was being pushed out in favor of The Rock and more Vin Diesel. I can't put my finger on what was missing though. Maybe it was because Dom/Diesel spent so much time away from everyone else
-Dom/Diesel's reason for going rogue was stupid. I stayed away from the marketing so I don't know if it was revealed then. I didn't see why he didn't just say "Hey Cypher has _____. Help" he didn't even try and fail to get the message out. I'm sure, narrative wise, they wouldve had Cypher figure it out. But still. I get why he did after the reveal of [BLACKOUT]the son[/BLACKOUT] but he didn't know about that from the jump. And the character that returned:[BLACKOUT]Elsa Pataky. I mean that character was barely in the last 2 movies so why should I care she died[/BLACKOUT]. And it was sooooo obvious that was going to happen
-Dom was forgiven way too easily at the end. But that's to be expected. ANd you know what so was Statham's I mean he killed Han. Sure it was revenge but still
-Natalie Emmanuel's character. She's gorgeous. Hottest woman in the cast imo, but she really brings nothing and just wastes screentime. I'm just not impressed by eye candy characters that actually have main roles. You can have a very hot character (Rodriguez, Theron, Gadot and Mendez in previous movies) who also are interesting to watch because they have personality or are badass. Emmanuel just hacked, which Luda already does, and rolled her eyes. Just kinda boring
All in all as I said it was pretty good, but I felt something was missing. I don't know where I'd rank this one because I havent seen Fast 6 or Furious 7 more than once. But I liked this one.
7.25/10
No idea what to do for the 9th one. As I said in another thread, they have to save space for the 10th and alleged final film.