What film could ever be worse than Fast and Furious (the fourth film) which is so tediously boring most people forget anything and everything that happened in it? Luckily not Fast Five which retains the high octane action car chases that the first two in the series focused on and adds to it by creating a new scenario which transforms the old formula in to a relatively different way in making it a bank heist. So it begins, Dom Toretto is back from the brinks of prison and Brian O'Conner is there as usual to be morally ambiguos and look confused on qeue, this leads them to 'one last job' and then they'll dissapear for good. With a bank heist film, you have the robbers (Toretto and O'Conner) then you have the cops, who in this case is the government agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson) who is determined to bring Toretto down for good.
Vin Diesel is at his best once again at playing the hard man with the plan, while Paul Walker, i feel has to rely on FF to keep his low key profile at least a steady rate anyway(he calls it acting, i call it confusion). Though the stand out character i'd say was The Rock, i thoroughly enjoyed him knocking the heck out of Vin Diesel, and his general macho federal agent attitude worked well. While the other characters felt pushed in to try and upscale the previous film and because of that most of their stories and general presence felt strained, However you have to mention Sang Kul who plays Han, who just seems to radiate with coolness and we finally find out why he's always eating.
Some scenes really do shine through the final chase with the bank vault, the train sequence and the fire fight between Hobbs' men and Reyes' cronies. Though other scenes can seem dull and attempting to build emotion uselessly and to be fair most people watching aren't interested into deep meaningful empathy(like the relationship between Dom and the female officer working for Hobbs, which is never explained...) It seems that a sixth installment really is inevitable, yet as long as they build on the stronger aspects of this and the first three they may be able to bury the horrific memory of Fast and Furious with it.
6 / 10
FIN.
Vin Diesel is at his best once again at playing the hard man with the plan, while Paul Walker, i feel has to rely on FF to keep his low key profile at least a steady rate anyway(he calls it acting, i call it confusion). Though the stand out character i'd say was The Rock, i thoroughly enjoyed him knocking the heck out of Vin Diesel, and his general macho federal agent attitude worked well. While the other characters felt pushed in to try and upscale the previous film and because of that most of their stories and general presence felt strained, However you have to mention Sang Kul who plays Han, who just seems to radiate with coolness and we finally find out why he's always eating.
Some scenes really do shine through the final chase with the bank vault, the train sequence and the fire fight between Hobbs' men and Reyes' cronies. Though other scenes can seem dull and attempting to build emotion uselessly and to be fair most people watching aren't interested into deep meaningful empathy(like the relationship between Dom and the female officer working for Hobbs, which is never explained...) It seems that a sixth installment really is inevitable, yet as long as they build on the stronger aspects of this and the first three they may be able to bury the horrific memory of Fast and Furious with it.
6 / 10
FIN.
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