Fast Five Movie Review

Hi Everybody,

Welcome to my first of many reviews of past, current and upcoming movies, I thought it was best to start with a new release FAST FIVE. (Yes that’s right, a Fifth entry in the Fast and the Furious Franchise).

Ok so let me start by saying before seeing this film my thoughts on this being either good or secondly the best in the series (Remember this is the FIFTH entry) were a little low, However 2 hours and a bit later, I realised how wrong I really was. This was not only the best Sequel of the franchise but a true action film from start to finish.

Now if you are coming to see this film for the street racing then I suggest you quickly go get a refund as the franchise has moved on, they have opened up the doors to a much needed and wider setting from the streets of LA to the city of Rio. But please don’t be put of just yet as we are given one race between Dom, Brain, Han, Roman and Tej.......No Spoilers on who wins.

Lets start with the opening scenes, FAST FIVE starts off where the 4th film finished, Brain (Paul Walker) and Mia (Jordana Brewster) bust Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) from the armoured prison bus and head for the sunset, The sunset being Rio. Now let me just say the opening scene sets the tone of this film perfectly, like most films that pick up the gears as the film progresses, FAST FIVE starts in fifth gear and goes in to overdrive, with a few pit stops for character development and to stop this from being just one big mess of who has the biggest engine.

So from here we find Brain and Mia in Rio on the run and short on cash, here we are introduced to Vince who if you can remember was in the Original and not the biggest fan of Brain. He can see Mia and Brain in need of a little extra cash and offers them a job heisting a few cars form a train. Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) tags along to help his sister and Brain with the job and get out unharmed, whilst stealing the cars there is a complication and some police officers are shot and killed by other members of the robbery. (To make matters worse, we find out the cars belonged to bad a@$ drug dealer who now wants them dead.) This leads to Dom and Co. getting the blame for the deaths and putting them on the FBI's Number 1 most wanted list.

Enter Dwayne The Rock Johnson, he plays Hobs who is hired by the FBI to hunt down and apprehend Dom and Co. and bring them to justice, Let me say all who thought the Rock was done with action films and should stick to movies like The Tooth Fairy should wipe those thought from your mind as The Rock makes Dog the Bounty Hunter look like a poodle. Hobs is hot on there trail when Dom, Mia and Brain decide to do one last job and disappear forever.

Now if you are fans of the previous Fast and Furious films then you are going to love the fact that this film is the All Star version that re-introduces characters from all 4 previous sequels, the influx of old friends is highly welcome. In particular, 2 Fast 2 Furious alumni Tyrese Gibson and Ludacris bag some choice lines, fuel-injecting the film with much-needed laughs.

The film builds itself up from here for the great finale, now im not going to spoil the end, but what i can tell you is that you will not be disappointed, This is fast and furious on a whole different level, Big Explosions, Epic Chases and most of all Beautiful cars. (Note to Everyone - Please stay in your seats when the credits role and you will be introduced with not only a big plot twist but a set up for what will highly likely be in development as you read this Fast and Furious 6.)

So to wrap this up, by now you know what you are going to be getting when you see a F&F film, Fast cars, Sexy Woman, Basic Plot, But what FF5 does is take all your favourite elements of all 4 previous movies and crank it up a notch giving us not only the best sequel in the current franchise but great film overall.