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« on: March 01, 2021, 09:54:38 am » |
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Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Premise: Safe from extradition, a heist team that avoided capture is lured back into action to take down a mercenary with a dangerous technological weapon for the promise of amnesty and answers to a mystery about a former conspirator that's back from the dead.
Rating: Better action, Dumber Plot, More Insane
This isn't as good a movie as Fast 5. We're approaching Scooby-Doo levels of absurdity in the plot. The characters are just different and continuing to evolve to be essentially special agents. These were street-racers and car enthusiasts. Now they are combat specialists, arms experts, and elite espionage tacticians. It's fuckin' crazy. Dom's character is one-dimensional. "Family" is his motivation for everything and it's pretty in-your-face. The messaging isn't subtle. He's like Yoda, dropping fortune-cookie wisdom, but like it was filtered through the X-Games. His analogies are dumb and meant to sound hardcore, but they're all pretty lame, but they make you laugh. He's also essentially clairvoyant at this point, where he can sense the inner-workings of the enemy plan, betrayal, and he's always a few steps ahead of what's going on. He's also simultaneously got an elaborate plan and no-plan at all and is flying by the seat of his pants, with no regard for his life.
The other characters are back (except they jettisoned the two boring dudes I can't even remember), and now they're all bad-ass fighters. Ludicrous is now an even more elite hacker, as is shown by him sitting in a circle of 50 computer monitors and fake-typing feverishly to "cross-reference" databases.
The plot is non-sensical and cannot juggle the number of characters. In an effort to keep everyone involved, some (most notably Paul Walker) have side-quests that don't advance things and bloat the runtime. There are some twists and turns, like usual, and I thought that there is one reveal that's done pretty well in its misdirection and execution, but in hindsight, don't make sense to the story. And characters don't seem to have an issue completely abandoning everything they've stood for at a moments notice -- looking at you, The Rock. There are bad amnesia plots like a soap-opera.
But....
Who. Gives. A. Shit?
The action in this movie is berserk and awesome and dumb. And as it gets dumber, it gets better. I literally laughed out loud AT LEAST 4 times at some dumb shit. It's decided to lean-into how dumb it is and just go with it. There's a car that crashes and a tank just rolls out of it and starts wrecking shop. There are moronic flying headbutts. There are car crashes that send people flying over gaps to catch others who are also crashing. There are cars that jump out of exploding airplane fuselages.
Is this a good movie with a coherent story and well-rounded characters? Oh most definitely not.
But in its own way, it's more awesome. The movie is definitely getting bro-dumber. The action is getting better -- it looks great. The female roles are more filled and they've gotten rid of most of the cringe.
And at this point, logic is gone so whatever, but I'd be remiss not to mention that there is a plane AT TAKEOFF SPEED on a runway for, no kidding, 30 minutes. It's like an extreme version of the 3-minute 1/4 mile race from the first movie that I mentioned previously. In fact, this series is doing a great job of peppering little references to all of the old films throughout and seems to pay homage to a lot of the old jokes, characters, and setups.
I don't even know where you go from here. They're probably going to be racing rocket-cars on the moon in the next one.
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