6/28/2023 0 Comments Furiously happy![]() ![]() There are elements of “Mission: Impossible,” 007 and “John Wick,” as if all the action franchises were somehow merging. Coyote stuff, ridiculous stunts employing insane G-forces and everything seemingly on fire. That said, “Fast X” is monstrously silly and stupidly entertaining - just Wile E. Little did we know then, but that bad guy had a son who survived and now, years later, vows vengeance. In a memorable moment five movies ago, Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto wrecked a bad guy and his team on a bridge in Rio de Janeiro. “Fast X” reaches into the fifth movie - 2011′s “Fast Five” - for the seeds to tell a new story. “Fast X” is, thankfully, shackled to Earth’s gravity - sometimes tenuously, it must be said - but it has become almost camp, as if it breathed in too much of its own fumes. ![]() There really was no way down after that.Īnd yet we have come to 10, part of a planned series of films finally saying goodbye. Weightless and violating every physical law, the floating car - tasked with bumping a satellite in the ninth installment - was the very symbol of how bloated and crazed the once-plucky series had become. ![]() Fans and critics may disagree over when exactly the “Fast & Furious” franchise jumped the shark, but there is only one correct answer: When the Pontiac Fiero went into space. ![]()
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