Writer: Chris Morgan
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, The Rock, Luke Evans
Tomatometer: 72/78/95 (all critics, top critics, audience)
Spoiler-free Summary: Now retired from a life of street racing and crime, Dominic Toretto’s crew is recruited, by The Rock, to help track down a new crime syndicate that bears a striking resemblance to their own.
Two Cents: Fast & Furious 6 benefitted greatly from a scheduling conflict that could have proved deadly. Released the same day as The Hangover Part III, Fast 6 found itself in a battle for sequel supremacy. Despite the plethora of similarities between the two movie, Fast 6 beat Part III to a bloody pulp at the box office ($117 million to $50 million) during their shared opening weekend. It doesn’t happen often in Hollywood, but, this time, quality won out.
I know, you probably think I’m crazy for using the word “quality” to describe a Fast & Furious movie. But, I dare you to watch this movie and ask yourself this simple question. Yes, it’s completely unrealistic, and The Artist had more dialogue, but this movie has some of the most exhilarating action sequences I’ve ever seen, as well as some surprisingly funny comic relief from supporting characters.
Between the insanely sexy cars, Paul Walker, The Rock’s arms, Jordana Brewster, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Elsa Pataky, Gal Gadot, and Paul Walker, this movie has some serious eye candy. It also has Paul Walker. However, this movie is not all style. There is an unexpectedly decent storyline here, and it connects nicely to the previous films in the series. Don’t worry about the storyline too much, though, if you’re not up-to-date on the series, as the film begins with a Ferrari-fast recap of the important elements from past installments, and there isn’t much you need to know. Boy likes girl, girl dies. Boy likes girl, girl has scary brother. Multiple boys and girls drive cars and steal things. That’s pretty much it. Not only does the movie begin with the best series recap I’ve seen in a film in a long time, it also finishes with a fantastic teaser ending (though, not quite as awesome as my favorite teaser ending of all time), promising more glorious fastness and furiousness in the future.
Should I/Shouldn’t I: If you’ve been a fan of the Fast & Furious series, then you simply must see this movie ASAP. If you haven’t seen any of the previous installments, don’t let that stop you. This movie is so darn fun, you don’t even have to learn the characters’ names. If you’ve seen some of the movies, there’s no need to see them all (although, you’ll like most of them, not including Tokyo Drift), but you should probably see Fast Five, just to familiarize yourself with some of the newer characters.
Sundae Rating: Two scoops with whipped cream
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Whats your take on spoilers in the comments here. Because there is a MAJOR plot hole in the ending here and would love your opinion it
Of course, Danny! Ask away. Just make sure to put “SPOILER ALERT” at the beginning of your comment.
SPOILER ALERT—–
So the good guys have caught the bad guy and think they won. And then the bad guy tells Paul walker to call his wife cause he kidnapped her and if they dont let him go he will kill Paul Walkers wife. The Rock decides to let Vin Deisel to make the decision and they choose to let the bad guy go. At which point he leaves.
Now the good guys decide to jam the phone signals so he cant call the people to tell them to kill her and chase after him. What would have happened if they caught up to him before he got to the plane. They would have hand cuffed him again and then he would say let me go or ill kill your wife. The good guys didnt know she was on the plane that they were going to. They didnt even know that a plane was coming.
It made no sense to release him if you were just going to chase him again?
Understand?
Fair question. But, I think they let him go to buy some time. Once they had some time to jam the signals, they wanted to catch him before he got a chance to talk to his peeps and tell them to kill Jordana Brewster. Obviously, they were too late, because he wasn’t calling them at all, he was going to meet them at the plane. He led the good guys right to her, which he didn’t expect to do (because he thought he was getting away).
Right but what would they have done if they caught him
Torture him until he leads them to Jordana. At that point, they’ll kill the other bad guys, and save her. That’s my guess, anyway.
But they could have done that b4 releasing him.
Besides that problem enjoyed the movie. Another small problem but im ok with is – SPOILER ALERT – if the girl cop was bad the whole time why was she fighting so hard with Michelle Rodriguez at the subway. I understand Michelle fighting with her, but the girl cop shouldnt have tried so hard to catch her.
Still, love the franchise and loved the teaser at the end.
Good point. They totally could have done that without letting him go.
As far as the girls fighting…That one I totally agree with. But that same exact issue comes up in a ton of movies with a “twist”. It’s the same thing I was addressing in my “Now You See Me” post. It’s not a twist if the previous scenes prove that it’s not true.
Well done, Danny boy!
As far as plot holes, I don’t know what the issue is because if you have seen action movies before you know what happens when you let a bad guy go that has someone important. this happens in real life too, they die. So you have to stop him and find out where the hostage is. The girl cop was apparently in deep cover and beat the crap out of Letty because Shaw doesn’t care about his team and that if she didn’t fight her that hard it would have raised suspicion from Hobbs.
Good points, melewis. You’re probably right about the girl cop. There were some times when she was out of everyone else’s view, but maybe she was just being careful, in case someone from Dom’s crew happened to see her fighting. Still, a lot of directors take shortcuts when dealing with “twists” these days. Thanks for reading the blog!