The Fate Of The Furious Aka Fast & Furious 8 Aka Fast 8 Aka GTA: The Movie

Charlize quickly regretted saying, "Don't look, but I think I know that guy..."

After spending the morning – or at least ten minutes of it – falling from an aeroplane above the Fox Glacier outside the epic mountain town of Franz Josef, I was pumped and in the mood for some more adrenaline by the evening. From the safety and comfort of a cinema seat, of course. It seemed the skydive demanded a lot of energy and by nightfall I was feeling pretty exhausted, so it made sense to relax and watch the latest The Fast & the Furious instalment, The Fate of the Furious, also confusingly known as Fast & Furious 8 or Fast 8. Why not just keep it simple eh, guys?

Central Intelligence has plenty of Hart but not enough brains

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard in the cinema that I ended up having to discreetly pick popcorn from the hair of the person in front of me, although I did come close with three of my most favourite comedies in recent years: 2008’s Step Brothers, 2013’s Anchorman 2 and the highly-underrated This Is The End. A lot of it is personal taste, of course. But for the most part, comedy movies miss the bullseye, sometimes veering too far off-target altogether, with this year’s Zoolander and Bad Neighbours sequels being the most recent examples of unfunny and plain wrong standing in for concrete comedy writing.