Say what you like about the franchise but it pretends to be nothing more than a bit of fun and action and fast cars.
Welcome to Fast & Furious 5 and easily the most entertaining of the five films.
Probably not the best, I think that has to go to the original.
Fast 5 as it is known in the USA brings together major and minor characters from all the movies to date (that was a masterstroke by the way) as Dom (Vin Diesel) and Brian (Paul Walker) attempt to take down the ruler of underground Rio.
They are fugitives, though, as they were wrongly accused of killing three police officers so the FBI has dispatched Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) to round them up and put them away.
Of course Mia (Jordana Brewster) is there and is now pregnant while we are reacquainted with Roman (Tyrese Gibson) and Tej (Ludacris) from 2 Fast 2 Furious and Han (Sung Kang) from Tokyo Drift).
And, of course again, there are hot cars and hotter chicks.
Welcome to Fast & Furious 5 and easily the most entertaining of the five films.
Probably not the best, I think that has to go to the original.
Fast 5 as it is known in the USA brings together major and minor characters from all the movies to date (that was a masterstroke by the way) as Dom (Vin Diesel) and Brian (Paul Walker) attempt to take down the ruler of underground Rio.
They are fugitives, though, as they were wrongly accused of killing three police officers so the FBI has dispatched Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) to round them up and put them away.
Of course Mia (Jordana Brewster) is there and is now pregnant while we are reacquainted with Roman (Tyrese Gibson) and Tej (Ludacris) from 2 Fast 2 Furious and Han (Sung Kang) from Tokyo Drift).
And, of course again, there are hot cars and hotter chicks.
Some fantastic action comedy and completely ridiculous chase scenes ensue as they try to outrun Hobbs and take down Reyes (Joaquim de Alimeda) at the same time.
I'm not really 'into' cars as such but for some reason I really dig these movies. I don't know what it is. They are just really entertaining and largely mindless fun.
So if you are a fan of the series you are going to have a ball. If you aren't then why are you bothering to watch it?
One word of warning. If you stick around during the credits there is a bonus scene. Having seen it I'm not sure whether it was a good thing or a bad thing. You'll know what I mean, and you might be looking back at the fourth movie afterwards as well. An 8 out of 10.
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