It works. The regular cast members are all either approaching 40 or well into their forties. When this series started 12 years ago, they were still hot young Hollywood upstarts. Whoever was a teen or tween back then, finding in these photogenic badasses the epitome of cool, is now likely sweating over rent and taxes.
Yet, "Fast 6" is still cold-blooded and brutal enough for the children. A kind of name-in-the-stars paean happens in the opening credits, a montage of moments from all over the series.
We glimpse Paul Walker and Vin Diesel in the early days, slightly slimmer, swifter and lighter of voice. We see various beatdowns, jiggling bikinis and vehicular massacres set to the thump of a generic hip-hop track.
Justin Lin is a playfully bombastic director, but his wise-ass sensibility goes missing in one of the key areas where he could leverage this trash into trash art: the soundtrack. This time around, the members of this street-racing, carjacking gang-turned-A-Team come out of retirement to help an international counter-terrorism manhunt. One of their homies thought long dead has been photographed among the suspects. Letty Michelle Rodriguez is alive, apparently.
When Letty finally showed up alive onscreen, there were gasps and murmurs among my fellow moviegoers. A long-running franchise like this one is about the familiarity and comfort of friendship. They love the way these show-offs talk shit with each other and initiate relative newcomers like Dwayne Johnson a. The Rock and first-timer Gina Carano " Haywire " into their shit-talking fold.
Vittorio De Sica would have aced one of these flicks. Two styles that would collide extraordinarily well.
Presumably, Fast 7 will be — at least partially — a vengeance movie, as the remaining members of the Toretto gang come out of re-retirement to avenge the fallen Han. Unless maybe Brother Shaw will be hunting them down — forcing the Toretto Tribe to go on the run? Does this mean that there is going to be a climactic fight scene where Statham and Diesel and Johnson have a shirtless shaved-head oiled-up bicep duel, ideally on a sinking oil tanker that is exploding?
Fellow Fast fanatics, what did you think of the ending? Where does the Statham reveal rank in the history of post-credits sequel teases?
What other contemporary action stars would you like to see in the franchise? Milla Jovovich as a mysterious Eastern European spy with a crazy car? Thure Lindhardt Firuz. Joe Taslim Jah. Clara Paget Vegh. Samuel Stewart Denlinger. Justin Lin Director. Chris Morgan Screenwriter. Moritz Producer. Vin Diesel Producer. Clayton Townsend Producer.
Justin Lin Executive Producer. Amanda Lewis Executive Producer. Samantha Vincent Executive Producer. Chris Morgan Executive Producer. Stephen F. Windon Cinematographer. Jan Roelfs Production Design. Christian Wagner Film Editor. Kelly Matsumoto Film Editor. Sanja Milkovic Hays Costume Designer. Lucas Vidal Original Music. Lucinda Syson Casting. James Hambridge Supervising Art Direction. Richard Roberts Set Decoration.
View All Critic Reviews Jun 25, Objectively one of the better movies in the Fast saga, Furious 6 also can't help but feeling like a transitionary movie. It's not the landmark film that Fast Five was, and it's not as good as Furious 7, so it kind of gets a little lost in the shuffle. It also has one of the more forgettable climactic battles. Despite how outrageous the plane takedown is, in the grand scale of Fast movies it's not one of the better set pieces.
All that being said, it's a damn good movie! Owen Shaw is one of the series best villains, the highway tank scene is amazing, and the story arc of Letty with amnesia has solid heart to it.
The movie really only suffers because while it has a great villain in Shaw, great set pieces, and a great amnesia story arc for Letty, the next film would do every one of those things better, so in comparison it doesn't stand out as much. It's still a ton of fun, and wildly creative in only the way Fast can be. Michael M Super Reviewer.
Apr 13, They were always forced to take on low end drug dealers and people who have little to do with their line of work; driving cars really fast and stealing things. Dom regathers his team, including Brian, Han, Gisele, Roman, and Tej, after Hobbs comes to him with an offer he can't refuse. The chance to save Letty from Shaw and take him down, in exchange for full pardons all the way around.
After quite a few films on the run and unable to return to his home in Los Angeles, there's no way he could turn down this opportunity, even if it meant going up against his former girlfriend thought dead, Letty. But it isn't as clean cut or polished as Fast Five. Granted, a movie like this doesn't necessarily need to have a concise story or developed characters, but they've done a much better job at doing those things within the last few films.
The 6th film feels a little slower and maybe even a little too long, with the end product still putting a huge smile on my face. But when comparing the two, a second watch definitely exposes some of this film's minor flaws.
The one thing this film, and pretty much all of the films since 4, is that each keeps topping itself. Just when you think they couldn't top stealing a vault and dragging across the streets of Brazil, they take down planes with cars.
The crazy thing is, you buy into all of it. I bought into the family from the beginning and I one-hundred-percent buy into the series embracing it's goofiness.
The film also manages to implement more humor into the 6th film which is something the franchise has been missing. Or at least, humor that actually makes people laugh. I won't count those horrible attempts at humor in the 2nd film. What makes this film stick out his that it's the first time the crew gets to go up against an entirely new crew with the same set of skills.
Luke Evans is great as Owen Shaw, The Rock has never been better, and who doesn't love watching Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson crack one-liners at each other. Better yet, every word out of Vin's mouth is a one-liner. Overall, the ante is once against raised and the series punches its way through another smash hit. Thomas D Super Reviewer. Sep 02, Again, The Rock and Justin Lin help to keep this franchise buoyant. The acting performances by Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, and Chris Bridges are laughable at times and aren't much better from the rest of the cast especially Michelle Rodriguez but the action scenes help keep this score afloat.
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