In the 8th movie of the Fast and Furious series....

Rating: 7/10 (6 July 2015)

In the 8th movie of the Fast and Furious series, the crew led by Domnic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) is, once again, brought back together against a common threat to their family. After dealing with their last nemesis, Owen Shaw (Luke Evans), Owen's older brother, Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), returns seeking revenge. In the early stages of the conflict to come, Deckard Shaw comes after the agent, Luke Hobbs (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), that helped Dom and his crew defeat his brother in the previous movie. This, in turn, leads Hobbs to aid Dom in capturing Shaw, in exchange for this help in rescuing a computer hacker that created an extremely valuable program. The movie begins with the introduction of the new villain in the series. Deckard Shaw is seen inside of a hospital visiting his comatose brother, Owen Shaw. As the scene concludes, it shows that Deckard Shaw broke into the hospital while leaving nothing but destruction behind, exemplifying his ability to cause havoc. Deckard Shaw makes one more move that sets the rest of the movie in motion, he decides to confront Luke Hobbs. Hobbs returns to his office only to find that Deckard Shaw had broken into his office, and was downloading the information on Toretto's family. We see the first "showdown" between two of the main characters of the movie, which concluded in Shaw defeating Hobbs and getting away with the information. Now that Toretto's family in involved, the crew is then put together for one more mission. The movie begins its conclusion with Dominic Toretto and Deckard Shaw having a "streetfight" on a rooftop parking lot. In the midst of the showdown between Toretto and Shaw, the building that they were standing on was soon to collapse. The conflict between Toretto and Shaw ended as the building collapsed with Shaw falling through the cracks as Toretto looked at him safely from above. Shaw ended up surviving the aftermath of the collapsed building, however, Hobbs had captured him and placed him in a max security prison.
The story was solid as well as interesting, not to mention, a great continuation to the storyline of the series. The director and the writers did a great job with the alteration of the movie after Paul Walker's passing. The altered plot and scene sequencing were great. The writers did a great job, with the ending, writing Paul Walker off of the series while reminiscing on the life of Paul Walker's character, Brian O'Conner, through the earlier parts of the series. The final scene in which Brian O'Conner and Dominic Toretto are racing and then part ways on the road was a great conclusion to the relationship between the two main characters of the series, as in real life. The scenery in the last scene of the movie struck out to me as well, it seemed like an exotic location. The use of sunlight and the seemingly endless road added to the notion of the indefinite parting of Paul Walker's character, Brian O'Conner.
The actors that played the main characters in Dominic Toretto's crew, or family, acted consistently with the direction of their characters given to them by the previous movies. The biggest change in the way a character was played was Michelle Rodriguez's character, Leticia "Letty" Ortiz, because she had to deal with amnesia while attempting to continue her relationship with Dominic Toretto. All in all, I found to be good and remained loyal to their fan base.