Attack of the zombie cars

The Fate of the Furious

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Hey, wait, this isn't about primeval golf, before Americans or even the English got excited by it. That film was promised but not delivered, but I was at the theater, and I was up for a holiday movie, and it was already paid for (via MoviePass), so I talked myself into the wisdom of having some dumb.

Well, I don't know about the wisdom, but I came to the right place for the dumb, and much of it (like virtually every moment with Dwayne Johnson, and the Manhattan zombie cars chase) was fun. I knew going in that there was one Oscar winner in the cast; the second, uncredited and Cockney-accented, was a pleasant surprise, as was the presence of two favorite supporting actors from Game of Thrones.

But dumb tends to be less fun in, say, the fourth half-hour than in the first three. Suffice it to say I won't be spending the rest of the long weekend bingewatching the first 7 films in the franchise.

Trailers

• The Mummy--Talk about your femmes fatales.
• Atomic Blonde--Ditto, as Fate's Ms. Theron keeps playing the action number on the wheel.