A man who once suffered from Toretto and his gang shows up years later for revenge.
Yet another unnecessary and ludicrous addition to the franchise fatigue. I was not meant to watch it, but after repeatedly hearing how “dumb” it allegedly is, I watched it only to write this review and offer my 2 cents.
A film is not dumb. The writers who write these kinds of scripts are not dumb, either. The same applies to the directors, producers, and distributors. A film has no intelligence to be smart or dumb, but it can be superficial or profound, depending on how much it delves into its subject matter and/or how much it spoonfeeds you the answers to the questions it poses.
Having established that, we are left with two options:
1. The filmmakers consider the audience dumb and, therefore, produce nonsensical films, thinking that the audience will react with astonishment!
2. The filmmakers think that the audience is oblivious to narrative quality. They have as low standards as they do, and they will get their fat paycheck regardless of how low that quality is.
Neither dumb nor oblivious is a positive way to think of your audience. Your audience is the people who will pay for the tickets and will produce you money in return. So, cars that defy the laws of physics, tech-savvy characters who are also prolific in fighting, non-existent technology created only to serve as a gimmick, indifferent drama/parody that you only want to fast forward, hearing the already funny word “family” for yet another 56 times (as per IMDb), and bad editing that is meant to “make” the film but instead “breaks” it even more, characterises the film, in a nutshell.
Universal seems undecided as to what kind of company it wants to be. This year, they released (and they keep releasing) incredibly diverse films where, while most of them deserve praise, Fast X most definitely doesn’t. Anyway, it is their money as much as it is the audience’s choice not to pay for the ticket. Let’s see whose loss it’s going to be.
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I confess I have never watched one of these films from start to finish. I found them so ridiculous and so not worth my time. Good review mate. That nail has been firmly hit on its head.
Cheers, Gaz! From tomorrow on, full-on Halloween films!