With Theron and Helen Mirren newly installed in the series to winning effect (joining Kurt Russell who's a holdover from the last go-round), there's no telling who might get slotted in next.
Besides, being too observant of this script might cause nausea.Īll involved know exactly what's going on here. Plus, it's hard to pay too close of an attention to Fast & Furious dialogue with all of the excitement popping on-screen. Oh, there are plenty of eye-rolls to be had at the expense of the Pierce Brosnan-era Bond-worthy plot and the arch heaviness with which the characters deliver their lines (Hobbs: "You're gonna close your eyes on World War III or you're gonna saddle up and save the entire damn world."), but every extravagant moment is purposeful and calculated (and honestly, in keeping with the 007 comparison, the only place to take the series from here is to a Moonraker level). Like the Marvel Universe, Fast & Furious keeps stacking the deck with bigger personalities, improbably proving that when you throw everything at a franchise to see what sticks, sometimes everything sticks. Originally played out as Point Break with cars, the series has slowly elevated itself to ridiculous heights of blockbusting, trading in hot-rods for tanks and handguns for WMDs.and yet, it's often quite entertaining. Granted, the street race takes place in Havana and the scene is shot in a style reminiscent of a '90s music video but it's a street race for pink slips all the same. Thankfully, this gleefully overblown sequel begins with a street race to keep a few tires grounded in the genre from which it came-crime-thriller. In this PG-13-rated actioner, a mysterious woman (Charlize Theron) seduces Dom (Vin Diesel) into the world of terrorism and a betrayal of those closest to him, causing his crew (Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludicris, et al) to face trials that will test them as never before. Feted for its Furiously over-the-top set pieces and acting, the latest installment in the Fast & Furious franchise vrooms further away from street-level action and someway somehow finds decent traction as a globe-spanning spy adventure.
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