Directed By: Justin Lin
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Luke Evans and Michelle Rodriguez
What It’s About: Dom and his team embark on a mission to stop an international villain and retrieve a lost friend
Rated PG-13 (for intense sequences of violence and action and mayhem throughout, some sexuality and language)
Runtime: 130 minutes
By Aaron Sanders, Diversions Editor
An entry in a standing movie franchise has its own special expectations and standards to meet. And it is under these standards that a viewer judges a franchise film. Coming into the spotlight after Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness (both resoundingly disappointing films) is Fast and Furious 6, the direct sequel to 2011’s Fast Five and the most satisfying, awesome movie I have seen since last year’s The Avengers.
Dom (Vin Diesel) and the gang are out in the world still reaping the rewards from the heist they pulled off in the last movie. That is until Special Agent Hobbs (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) seeks out Dom to ask for assistance in taking down a team of international vehicular terrorists. Dom is expectedly reluctant until Hobbs drops an atomic bomb:
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Leti (Michelle Rodriguez), Dom’s ex-lover who was supposedly killed in the fourth film, is alive and breathing and is working for said group. Dom shares this revelation with his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster) and Brian (Paul Walker), and assembles his team to take down the villainous Owen Shaw (Luke Evans), get Leti back and clear their names for good.
Cliché? I don’t care. This movie is beyond awesome. If you want to see Vin Diesel jump out of a car that is going over 100 mph across a thirty foot gap on a bridge 500 feet in the air, catch someone in midair and land back-first on a windshield on the opposite side of said bridge, this movie is for you. That and an amazing fight scene between Michelle Rodriguez and MMA fighter Gina Carano (Haywire) round out two hours’ worth of spectacular set pieces.
Fast 6 is the best entry in the 13-year-old franchise and any fan of the series will agree. Watching Fast 6 in the first row of a packed theater, I experienced some of the most electric fan interaction with the film. One fight scene near the end of the film in which Vin Diesel finds himself in a 1v2 fight with Shaw and one of his henchmen until The Rock unexpectedly jumps in features Dom and Hobbs side-by-side and caused the theater to erupt in cheer.
As a long-time fan of the franchise, I found myself deeply invested in every character despite the actual superficiality of them all, especially Han (Sung Kang), who died in the third film and has appeared in every successive entry since (making the fourth, fifth and sixth films kind of prequels).
If you’re not a fan of the series, now is the time to start. Fast and Furious 7 has been confirmed, so make sure to stick around the theater for a couple minutes after the credits roll for an insane Fast 7 tease (I’m still reeling from the big reveal).
In the context of their respective canons, Star Trek Into Darkness was bad, Iron Man 3 was worse (but that’s another article altogether) and Fast and Furious 6 blew away my lurking doubts about the franchise. Go see it immediately!
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