Fast & Furious

Vin Diesel and Paul Walker reteam for the ultimate chapter of the adrenaline fueled franchise- Fast & Furious.  Heading back to the streets of L.A, they rejoin Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster to blast muscle, tuner and exotic cars along the crowded streets of the city and across international lines in this high-octane action packed thriller from driector Justin Lin.

It’s been 8 years since ex-con Dominic Toretto (Diesel) drove across the border, committing himself to a fugitive existence.  Now, holed up in a beach shack in the Dominion Republic, and living on the run with the sole remnant of his past, Letty (Rodriguez), he tries to piece together a new life. But he knows the authorities are always just a step behind him.

When a tragic death of someone he loves brings him back to L.A., Dom reignites his feud with FBI agent Brian O’Conner (Walker). As they are forced to confront a shared enemy, a sociopathic drug kingpin who is flooding the U.S. with lethal product.  Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain trust if they hope to outmaneuver him and avenge the tragedy that he caused their small de facto family to endure.

Fast & Furious is a fairly stable entry to a fairly enjoyable franchise.  All the movies completely sum up what I mean by dumb fun where you can just sit back, switch your brain off and enjoy the eye candy on the big screen.  There’s nothing new about this fourth movie but also there’s nothing that bores or annoys, it’s a completely inoffensive sequel that does exactly what you expect and what you want.  

The movie is jam packed with action set pieces, there’s loads of car chases and the pace of the movie is kept up for most of the way through.  If you expect to see anything clever or unique you’ll be disappointed but if you’re a fan of the other Fast & Furious films and want to see more of the same then you’re in luck.

Just make sure you remember to turn your brain off before it starts otherwise you’ll start questioning things like how can a wanted man travel in and out of the U.S. so easily, or how they hell can someone pick up so much detail on what happened at a crash scene from very little evidence?  Don’t question it, enjoy it!

 

 

 

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