The Fast and Furious franchise has some of the most gravity-defying, physics-challenging stunts ever. Logic go home, you're drunk. And the latest instalment, Fast and the Furious 8: Fate of the Furious., also has its share of moments that can beat any Rajinikanth movie hands down. We capture some of them.
Turning a Torpedo with Bare Hands
Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) manages to reach out from a speeding truck driving on ice to turn a live torpedo skimming across the surface away from his friends’ cars. A torpedo zooming across ice is far-fetched enough, but being slow enough to be pushed away by bare hands simply challenges the laws of physics.
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Burning Car Driven in Reverse
In the early part of the movie, Dom (Vin Diesel) drives a beat-up 1951 Chevrolet Fleetline in a drag race, managing to win it in the final moments even with the car on fire.
What makes it even more ridiculous is that he flips it around and drives the flaming car in reverse at high speed. A burning car continuing to race is bad enough, but to drive at race-winning speeds in reverse is pushing logic too far.
The Five Harpoon Smash-Up
In one scene, Dom’s Plymouth GTX is surrounded by five of his teammates and harpooned from all directions. They then proceed to hold his car down by pulling in different directions.
But Dom defies physics, accelerating his car so hard that he pulls them all together (never mind that his car can either go only forward or backward) into one big smash- up.
Fished Out of Icy Waters on a Door
When the Lamborghini Murcielago driven by Roman (Tyrese Gibson) crashes through an ice sheet, he is rescued by one of his teammates who shoots a harpoon through his car’s door and then reels him in.
He comes flying back to the surface, riding the Lamborghini’s door. Physics? What’s that? And it also doesn’t say much for the build quality of the Lamborghini.
Skydiving into a Flying Plane
Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) skydives into a flying plane miles above the surface, using a jet pack. Without going into the logic of how he managed to get that cargo door open within seconds, the fact that he and another colleague (who is a pilot) chase the plane and eject precisely from their jet packs to get on board is unbelievable enough.
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Beating a Heat-Seeking Missile
Towards the end of the movie, Dom manages to avoid a heat-seeking missile by timing a jump over a submarine so well that the missile hits the submarine instead. Ignore the fact that the submarine is supposedly loaded with nuclear weapons.
Even though his car is launched several feet in the air and is destroyed, he manages to jump out and roll, emerging unscathed from that huge fireball.
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