The 14 Most Convoluted Plot Holes In 'The Fate of the Furious'

Apparently if you're surrounded by cars during a massive explosion, you're going to be just fine. Not to be a jerk, but that seem implausible to say the least. You would think a heat-seeking missile that blows up a submarine would create such a large blast that anything within its immediate proximity would also blow up, be caught on fire, or at least pushed around a little bit. So when Dom manages to survive the blast because he's surrounded by cars and friendship, the entire physics of the film are called into question. 

Here's the thing, if Scott Eastwood's character Little Nobody had said to Roman (played by Tyrese Gibson) while he was drooling over the government's orange Lambo, "You can't drive that because it's an experimental, bullet-proof military car, and it's the only one we have," this would have been fine. But as far as the audience knows, Roman is driving a regular Lamborghini. So when he uses its door as a way to shield himself from multiple rounds fired by Russian separatists riding snowmobiles (don't ask) it seems farfetched to say the least. 

In the film, Theron's character, Cipher, lives on a 747 with two giant satellite dishes that constantly circles the globe, undetected by any and all government agencies. She seems to get off and on the plane at will, but there's no footage of the plane docked at an airstrip, and there's no scene where she takes a small plane out of the big plane to get to her earthly destinations. Although, at one point the plane does touch the ground for about 10 seconds so Diesel can drive into it. Other than that, it's in the air the entire time. Who is refueling this plane mid-flight? And when does it get the constant upkeep that a plane needs to stay in the air? How do they get food on there? The fans of the Furious need answers. 

Speaking of which - how did they get Dom's baby and ex-girlfriend on board? At one point Jason Statham's character Deckard and Luke Evans's character Owen get onto the plane by using jet packs, and Dom drives onto the plane via the cargo hatch, so either Cipher brought the baby on board in a tiny jet pack, or the plane touched the ground long enough for goons to pop on board with a full-grown woman and baby in tow. Or, and this might actually be how it happened, Cipher brought Dom's baby mama Elena on board the plane while she was pregnant and then she gave birth to the baby. Woof, what a mess. 

At the film's climax there's this super tense hack-off between Cipher and Nathalie Emmanuel's character Ramsey. They take turns hacking into a decommissioned Russian sub, and it's a lot like that scene in Hackers where the titular hackers are hacking against Fisher Stevens, but much less cool. Can you really hack into a sub through wifi or whatever? How can you start the engines of a submarine if you're not connected to it in one way or another? Ramsey is at least in a control tower while she hacks, but Charlize Theron is on a plane that never lands so someone please explain how this is possible. 

At the beginning of the film, Dom has to race some guy for his family honor and cherry Impala. But rather than race a quarter mile they're going to race a "Cuban mile" (which is presumably a normal mile but in Cuba.) To do so, Dom has to rig a Coca Cola tab to his engine so it can go faster. Is that for real? Obviously it's not a permanent fix because Dom ends up blowing up the engine and using the blast to propel him over the finish line as he drives in reverse, but it's still worth figuring out if that's a thing you can even do in case you want to win any upcoming soapbox derbies. 

You guys, Dom literally almost started a nuclear war, threw grenades at his family, destroyed his cousin's car, almost killed Hobbs, got Hobbs arrested, almost got his wife killed, cheated on his wife, and definitely had his son's mother murdered - how is everyone all smiles at the end of the film? Is it just because they're exhausted from almost dying and they just want to chill, drink some Coronas, and say "salud" and "family" ad nauseam? Or was there a post-credits intervention that was cut?