Viewed in
2013
Formats
Movie theater.
Premise
The Rock reunites Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and the gang to take down international mercenaries.
Loved
Laugh out loud movie logic.
Liked
The cast, Tyrese' comedy skills.
Thoughts
Big, loud, and dumb, and that's way I like it.
Let's start with the awesomely bad physics, mostly during "vehicular warfare" (TM Ludacris) scenes. There were so many people jumping from one moving vehicle to another from great heights with precision that it made Luke's Death Star exhaust port shot look like a slam dunk. My favorite was Diesel launching himself across a freeway to catch airborne Michelle Rodriguez as she was launched by a tank, they land perfectly onto a different car, merely breaking cracking the windshield without whiplash/concussion/broken bones.
Yes, I mentioned a tank, which was in the trailer, but it was more than that. Much like how the big-ass plane gave birth to a muscle car in the trailers, a military semi gave birth to said tank. They must have fantastic roads in Europe, because their bridges, hundreds of feet over a ravine, was able to hold a 40-ton tank wrecking havoc. Not to mention Diesel's crew trying to use another car as an anchor to drop the tank off the bridge. Oh, and their airport runways must be 25 miles long because that jet spent a long time trying to take off while dragging five cars on its wings.
If all this sounds like a fun time, and a great reminder of bad 1980's and 1990's action flicks, this will satiate. I didn't even have to elaborate on Diesel-Rock's modified Doomsday Device move, or the fact that Diesel spoke like every sentence belonged in a Michael Bay movie trailer. I was surprised by Tyrese Gibson's comedy chops, he pretty much had all the (intentionally) funny moments.
I think I liked Fast 5 just a tad better because the action sequences felt more stunt-oriented, and less CGI-ish than Fast & Furious 6. But really, there's no point in much analysis while Gina Carano's triangle-choking dudes, the writers played the amnesia card (oops, spoilers), and vehicles are giving birth.
