‘F9’ Film Review: Superheroes and Soap Opera Soaked in Gasoline and Testosterone, and It Still Works
Starting at about the fifth entry in the series, the “Fast and the Furious” saga zoomed past dealing with car thieves and drag races and went right into international-superspy territory. “F9” shows the strategy still succeeding, even if it makes zero sense that a gaggle of car fanatics with shady pasts is all the planet has to protect it from massive global cyberterrorism.
Don’t bother asking why said car fanatics are the only people sent to investigate a plane crash in a foreign country; “F9” won’t be providing answers to that, much less to how and why some of the crew go into actual outer space by the final reel. These films demand that you just roll with the cockamamie plots, and in return, Justin Lin will craft a breathtaking melee of automotive destruction that plays like Wile E. Coyote and M.C. Escher competing in the Cannonball Run.
Don’t bother asking why said car fanatics are the only people sent to investigate a plane crash in a foreign country; “F9” won’t be providing answers to that, much less to how and why some of the crew go into actual outer space by the final reel. These films demand that you just roll with the cockamamie plots, and in return, Justin Lin will craft a breathtaking melee of automotive destruction that plays like Wile E. Coyote and M.C. Escher competing in the Cannonball Run.
- 6/24/2021
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
What exactly is our fascination with the Fast and Furious franchise that makes the ridiculous nature of it all acceptable where in any other film we would just as soon walk out of the theater before enduring another high flying feat of impossible derring-do? Up until the fourth film in the franchise (2009's Fast & Furious) there were minor levels of absurd behavior taking place, but after Tokyo Drift each film has found a way to one-up the last, leading us to Fast & Furious 6 where not even a tank can discourage our band of criminals who find themselves in London, helping the feds this time around in exchange for full pardons and a clean slate. I had a hard time accepting the over-the-top action in Fast Five, not entirely impressed with the massive safe-stealing set piece at the film's conclusion, but I think it prepared me for what Fast 6 had to offer,...
- 5/28/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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