Fast X movie review – Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted and outrun every adversary in their way over numerous missions and against insurmountable odds. They now have to deal with the worst foe they have ever encountered. A deadly menace that is driven by retaliation emerges from the past to devastate Dom’s world and everyone and everything he loves.
Movie Details:
Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jason Statham, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Jason Momoa
Director: Louis Leterrier
Producers: Vin Diesel, Justin Lin, Samantha Vincent, Jeff Kirschenbaum, Neal H. Moritz
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release date: 19 May 2023 (India)
Based on: Characters by Gary Scott Thompson
Run Time: 2 hours 21 minutes
Where to Watch? At the theatres!
Rating: 3.5 / 5 stars
Story:
Fast X looks to the fifth film, 2011’s “Fast Five,” for the beginnings of a new tale. Five films ago, Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto wrecked a bad guy and his squad on a Rio de Janeiro bridge in an iconic scene. We had no idea that the evildoer had a son who had survived and was now vowing retribution years later. I’m done now. The story is that.
Fast X movie review:
“Fast X” is obscenely ludicrous and foolishly fun; it’s all Wile E. Coyote stunts, incredible g-forces, and everything seems to be on fire. There are hints of “Mission: Impossible,” “John Wick,” and “007,” as if all the action properties were combined in some way. A word of caution, though: It careens to a finale without a payoff, which is a riskier stunt than any seen in the actual movies.
Without Jason Momoa, who plays the bad guy’s son and portrays him as an out-and-out flamboyant lunatic, the movie would not be nearly as entertaining. In one scene, Momoa paints the toenails of a deceased victim while displaying the corpse at a bizarre garden party. He advises, “Never accept death when suffering is due.” He is a mix of Jack Sparrow from “Pirates of the Caribbean” and Joaquin Phoenix from “The Joker.” Momoa likes to plan explosives, stand in a prominent location, and raise his arms in the air like Christ the Redeemer as the blast wave hits. As soon as he leaves the picture starts to sag.
Screenplay:
Momoa is a part of the franchise’s well-known strategy of adding more and more A-listers while leaving them with nothing to do; this time, Rita Moreno, Brie Larson, Alan Ritchson, and Daniela Melchior are all here. Even Pete Davidson makes an appearance. On top of that, there are the usual suspects Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Jordana Brewster, John Cena, Jason Statham, Charlize Theron, Sung Kang, Scott Eastwood, and Helen Mirren, whose laughable attempt at a working-class accent was made once again by her. This is a talent clown automobile. The movie’s poster has 14 characters, similar to an “Avengers” movie.
Diesel, the always-sleeveless central character, is always revealed to be a genuinely lousy actor who, apparently, only attended the Brooding 101 lecture in theatre school. He is frequently propped up in front of a wall of family photos by the filmmakers, where he fixes his intense gaze on them. He would growl, “I only care about protecting the people that I love.”
Family is always important, or rather, a gothic zero-sum notion of blood’s link that is articulated with soap opera speech, as fans of the franchise are well aware. Toretto must safeguard his family at all costs, yet he appears fine with handing over custody of his 8-year-old son while competing in drag races in Rio. Momoa mocks, “You know what your problem is; Family. They cannot all be saved.”
Storyline:
With a 20-kiloton bomb threatening much of Rome along the route and a cliffhanger finale at the side of a dam in Portugal, new filmmaker Louis Leterrier takes us from Los Angeles to Antarctica. The screenplay was written by veteran Justin Lin and rookies Zach Dean and Dan Mazeau. Even more, mega-stars are promised for the following instalment, so stay for the credits.
This time, you can expect to see two extremely violent hand-to-hand battles, a car crashing into two helicopters, rush-hour traffic, car bombs, remote-controlled cars (both large and little), vehicles that jump into the air like salmon, and a plane dropping a modified racer from its belly into the roadway.
Utilising “Fast Five” content necessitates the sensitive chore of paying tribute to Paul Walker, the series veteran who passed away in 2013. “Fast X” does contain archival footage of Walker as it depicts the events that took place on that Rio bridge. It is handled with decency and composure. The inclusion of Meadow Walker as a flight attendant is a great touch. “Fast X” is pure popcorn craziness, with one foot in the past, one in the future and one on the gas. Was it too much ground? We apologise, but you demanded logic.
Final Verdict:
However, stab it and Steer is the only effective strategy for dealing with a franchise that has run out of original ideas. Fast X incorporates a street race with stylish muscle cars and low-angle shots of hot spectators, just like every other Fast & Furious film, but these films have long since ballooned into the über-action blockbuster series; a junk-food binge of world-saving, city-razing international spy missions never imagines a crash that can’t be survived or a conundrum that a nitro-boost can’t solve.
Locations are first established by characters stating that they are headed to Rome, followed by helicopter shots of the Colosseum and other famous sites, and finally by the word “ROME” written in enormous, screen-filling letters. Fast X possesses enough blissful self-awareness to render resistance pointless. It feels nice to give in and smile after a while.
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