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The Fast and Furious series have been
providing entertainment to rev head car lovers for well over a decade
now. The
series has proved resoundingly resilient despite any real originality
or variance.
Speeding cars, babes and greased up morons has proved to be the winning
formula
for this series. With the original being a road bound rip off of Point Break (1991), the other films have
skipped continents and cast in an effort to fool viewers they aren’t
actually watching
the same movie, six times. With the arrival of Fast &
Furious 6 even the series most avid fans couldn’t defend the
fact that this cash cow is milked and drying up quicker than a snowball
in
hell. The films have always been mind numbing entertainment, but this
film is
quite simply, a confused mess and completely ridiculous. Is it
watchable
though? Is it fun? Unfortunately, the answer is yes.
The
story for Fast 6 needs little introduction, as
it’s not really that important is it? No one watches these films and
tells
their mate how amazing the character development was. Or how Paul
Walker has finally
learned to wipe that look of his face like he’s struggling to
understand finger
painting. What the viewers want is the original cast and they want
really fast
cars. Well, in Fast 6 you’ve got both.
Yes, it's that kind of crowd-pleaser this film. We’ve got an ageing Vin
Diesel
and stupid as ever Paul Walker back to ignite the screen with their
turbo
charged dude chemistry. This time Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson wants the
gang to
help him track down a wanted criminal Owen Shaw (Luke Evans). He offers
the
boys a clean slate for their help and cooperation with the case. This is when all the cast offs and crappy rappers come
creeping out
of the woodwork to fill out the cast list.
Michelle
Rodriguez is also back to
put pedal to the metal once more. What’s that you say? She died in the
last
film? Well she’s back from the dead to pout her way through another
petrol
pumped paycheck and that’s probably a good thing. She remains the only
cast
member with any kind of magnetism or focus holding ability. So the gang
is back
and this time they seem to do a lot more shooting and punching in an
effort to
show how integral they all are, all the while proving that this series
is lost
in the ether of it’s stupid legacy. The action is amped up and well
shot in Fast 6. The film doesn’t let the
audience rest for long before throwing more action or mucho madness at
you.
This is a smart choice and will please the long-term fans. There must
be such a
thing out the right? Long-term Fast and
Furious fans, what a scary thought. Out of all the previous films
it is
most similar in tone to Fast Five, so
if you enjoyed that masterpiece you should probably get gold class
tickets for
this car crash right away.
Fast & Furious
6 is a fun and stupidly entertaining action movie. It is however
nothing
but an amalgamation of used parts from the previous films. Everyone
knows what
to expect with these film and the most current entry is no exception.
Spend the
money to watch this if you must, but do it in the awareness that it’s
probably
going to kill the last few brain cells you have if you actually call
yourself a
Fast and Furious fan.
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