fast and furious It is one of Hollywood’s most lucrative franchises of all time. It’s also one of the dumbest, and that nonsense goes quickly—I mean overdrive. Quick Xabsurd action—amazing excess, ludicrous stereotypes about family, and the tenth (!) episode of what has become a monument to Vin Diesel’s superhero-sized ego.
It’s also a summertime drama that allows countless actors (and a handful of them!) not on the Marvel and DC payrolls to earn blockbuster salaries, which is the only excuse for many of them to waste their talents on such things. meaningless.
12 years have passed fast and furious transformed itself from an epic about street racing into some kind of weird half-assed.impossible mission A heist with Diesel’s Dominic Toretto reimagined as an invincible troublemaker working for a secret government agency (ahem, known as The Agency) to thwart cowardly international criminals.
This conversion never made sense, but as of 2011 fast five The series’ celebration of multicultural unity and vehicular excess has helped hide its essential illogicality. Even so, the finish began to wear off and reached its peak. F9Ludacris’ decision to send Tej and Tyrese Gibson’s Roman (comedy films that have yet to legally say a funny word in eight films) into space in a rocket-propelled roadster felt like a move designed to avoid any parody. dim bulb lengths where these films will go one-times higher than their predecessors.
Quick X There are no comparable examples of heroes doing silly things like flights to the stars or redirecting rockets fired with their bare hands like in Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Furious Fate. However, there’s a lot of mind-boggling to be found in this sequel that barely comes back to life as it succumbs to automotive mayhem and downright pauses every time the human characters open their mouths. Whichever cliché you choose—the show runs out of gas/turns around/stands idle—not to mention the latest exploits of Dom and the company, perhaps the most tiresome “excesses” to date, not to mention the faintest.
Ridiculously turning inward, Fast X begins with a re-convincing preface fast fiveWhen Dom and Brian (Paul Walker) drag the vault of drug lord Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida) out of Rio de Janeiro (killing the villain in the process), the villain’s hitherto unknown son, Dante (Jason Momoa), is heavily burdened. reveals how they were hurt. . Ten years later, Dante reappears, determined to fulfill his father’s wish for Dom to suffer before he dies for the theft.
It’s never entirely clear why Dante waited exactly ten years to get his revenge, but logic is not the strength of these judgments. Apparently, this isn’t action either, although director Louis Leterrier shot his best exaggeration using plenty of zooming, panning, buzzing camerawork to keep the energy high. Unfortunately all that noise and anger feels tired and helpless, and the fact that Leterrier recycles the bomb-detonating trick from the undercarriage of the car out of its own box. carrier 2 it just underlines the lack of imagination.
Almost everyone who has appeared before fast and furious the movie appears here, and none of them seem particularly excited about it. Ludacris and Tyrese reluctantly engage in depressing banter, Jason Statham grimaces, John Cena solemnly does his silly routine, and Scott Eastwood and Brie Larsen (second to Kurt Russell’s Mr.
Michelle Rodriguez, Dom’s beloved Letty, snarls and yells according to tradition. reacher‘s Alan Ritchson struts around in shirts that are two sizes smaller to better show off his massive body. Charlize Theron plays mostly exhausted as super cybercriminal Cipher, while Sung Kang looks downright miserable as Han, my resurrected Dom pal. Even Helen Mirren and Jordana Brewster do some car work, the latter in a scene that makes us believe the physically weak actress can take down a squad of heavily armed soldiers.
There are too many cameos and callbacks scattered throughout Quick X The story feels secondary. This turns out to be a good thing, as Dante’s plan to kill everything Dom loves, especially his son Brian (Leo Abelo Perry), is a long-term affair where the devil gives Dom every imaginable opportunity to stay safe.
Momoa is the only one who seems to be having fun, but her arrogantly bizarre coded performance (all hip-pushing, brightly painted nails, fancy rings, shimmering shirts, chatter about masculine standards, and phrases like “I’m Dante, au chante!” and “The carpet fits the curtains!”) colorful or nasty. Either way, it’s more bearable than writers Dan Mazeau and Justin Lin’s third-grade dialogue. Every word is a trailer-tailored bromide (“Sometimes fear can be the best teacher”, “You don’t have family without honor. You don’t have anything without family. no!”, “The result will be existential!”), and moreover, worse than the end
Diesel himself glares, bellows, and poses with typical He-Man-like self-confidence, with Dom now rendering a caricature so perfectly that his impossible skills (detonating a flaming bomb off course with his car; getting out of a plane with his Dodge) falling and then driving down the wall of a dam) is very boring rather than admirable.
Dom’s invincibility removes any tension, just as Quick X‘s overcrowded plan changes everyone in a short time. It’s a film that just puts new spins on old centerpieces and is content with a short tone. Harry Potter The musical theme only exacerbates the feeling that the Leterrier installment is a skin designed to keep the IP afloat, whether it’s something new to do with these characters, soap opera messes, or their turbocharged vehicles.
It was intended to be the first half of a two-part franchise finale (which could now turn into a trilogy, God forbid), Quick X It closes on a monumental cliff. However, given that the probability of its main characters (except one) being in serious danger of meeting their creators is zero, it proves to be another gesture that affected a fiasco filled with them, like Dom’s cry for a dying love. He looks longingly at old photos of himself and Walker’s Brian, or holding his cross as a way of expressing his deep (and often cited) faith. Inflated, indifferent and unintentionally funny, a magnificent wreck.
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