If you've like the last four movies...you will LOVE this one. No doubt in my mind, not only is the franchise doing well, it may not have hit its peak yet.
Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster and a lot of your favorite car crazies are back for a fifth helping in the high octane bullets and muscle car series.
Directed by Justin Lin the movie starts out strong and ends even stronger. I'm gonna get this out of the way up front. If you usually leave as soon as the screen goes dark...don't!! Stay through the middle of the credits...you'll hate yourself if you don't!
Justin Lin has a great eye for action and he knows drama (Better Luck Tomorrow, Annapolis). With the last three Fast and Furious movies under his belt he's a lock to direct a fourth FF film. I'm also feeling a little more comfortable with him being attached to another personal favorite franchise, the reboot of the Highlander series.
With Rio as a backdrop you get all the hot cars, hot women and action that you would expect from a FF movie. The movie opens with enough of a flashback that if this is your first FF film you won't be totally lost. It's helps set up how the main characters Dom, Brian and Mia got to where they are at the start. From there you get a great action scene to open the story (train robbery hasn't looked this cool since "The Train Job" on Firefly). From there it's off to the races, if you'll pardon the pun.
Other fan favorites are back for this film: Vince (Matt Schulze), Taj (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges), Roman (Tyrese Gibson), Han (Sung Kang). Not to mention the addition of Dwayne Johnson and Elsa Pataky. If you have never seen any of the other movies...or if you haven't seen them all you may be lost on who the characters are and how they relate to the previous films, but that doesn't change the movie. You get enough of a background to see what their skills are and why they are being brought into the fold.
For me the movie was a fun departure from the previous films. It had almost a caper feel. Actually, I kept thinking, "This is the movie that's gonna kill any chance of The Brazil Job (long rumored follow up to The Italian Job) being made.!"
Vinny D. has decided to stop trying to be a dramatic actor, granted "Find Me Guilty" was pretty good, and he's back to playing to his strength...being a bad ass.
I was sceptical going in when people I knew were throwing around words like: Amazing, Awesome, Best of all...etc, or the critics who were labeling the move as a "must see". But, I am willing to admit when I am wrong...and in this case I jumped the gun, they were all right!
On a funny side note, THIS story from George Lopez's Facebook account was a pretty funny look behind the scenes at those fight scenes between Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel
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