Related: 2 Brothers 2 Furious: How Vin Diesel and John Cena are redefining Fast family in F9 And further proof that there's five movies in one here is the fact that we're just mentioning that John Cena joins as Dom's long-lost superspy brother Jakob Toretto.
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Watching with an audience, you'll cheer when Han (Sung Kang) returns, you'll gasp when they go full Fast-meets- Indiana Jones, you'll yell "oh, s-" during the mid-credits scene, and you'll laugh with amazement when you realize they really went to outer space. If released as originally planned in May 2020, it would have been seen as a nice return to form after Fate and Hobbs & Shaw, but its year-plus delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic turned it into Hollywood's hope for salvation and a reminder of why we love going to the movies. It's hard to imagine that anyone other than returning Fast maestro Justin Lin could get as close to pulling it all off as F9 does.
All at the same time it's somehow prequel, sequel, reboot, an attempt at redemption, a first installment of a franchise-ending trilogy, and Fast's Godfather: Part II.
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There is so much movie within F9 that it probably should get multiple spots on this list. Related: Lucas Black on appreciating the 'unique' legacy of Tokyo Drift, reuniting with Fast family for F9 (In X-Men terms, it's The Wolverine.) -Darren Franich
The final action scene hasn't aged well - whoa, cameraphones! -but Tokyo Drift is Fast & Furious reduced to its bare essentials, lean and mean. His world-weary Han would appear in all the future films until Furious Seven, but this is his showcase - his Bandoleros, if you will - and he gives the film a genuine heart. I say "almost" because Tokyo Drift lucked out with Sung Kang. (Drifting really does look cool.) All that atmosphere helps cover some of the film's problems - namely, the almost-complete lack of compelling personalities. Of all the Fast films, this is the one that feels closest in spirit to genuine car culture - and the best parts of the film are practically anthropological. Once the film moves to Japan, Tokyo Drift positively soaks in the atmosphere. It's a playful site gag that's also a genuinely exciting car chase - an essential preview of the unique Arnold-Schwarzenegger-meets-Buster-Keaton mixture of muscle-car wild action and geometric precision that Lin brought to his films. The over-delivering starts early in the third Fast film, when Sean Boswell (the oldest-looking high school student in movie history) races football jock Clay (the oldest brother from Home Improvement!) through a construction site. In which Justin Lin and Chris Morgan turn a pile of spare parts into a 10-second car. Related: Best of 2017: How Jason Statham and a baby stole Fate of the Furious There was always going to be comedown after the true-life emotionality that powered Furious 7 – and Fate seems to be seed-planting toward the already-announced ninth and tenth films. That serves him well with some characters - Hobbs' superstrength officially approaches Hulk levels in Fate, and he gets mileage from the bantering Rock-Statham bromance - but it leaves Theron and Diesel stranded in a bummer arc that's less dramatic than depressing. Gary Gray has the broadest comedic instincts of any Fast filmmaker.
And anyone hoping for a reprise of Fast Five's Diesel-Rock antagonism will have to stick to the gossip pages the film's two biggest stars barely appear onscreen together.ĭirector F. No one onscreen even seems to really consider that Dom has turned evil.
And there's a neat idea in the basic idea of turning Dom against his beloved family - although Dom's unsurprisingly noble motivations alleviates the essential drama of that betrayal. There are great showcases for individual players - especially Statham, whose turn toward heroism is both an affront to Fast history (what about Han?) and the source of this movie's most delightful action set piece. That's not to mention new baddie Charlize Theron, a full-fledged Bond Villain with a global plot that oddly/topically/inevitably involves the Russians. There are returning long-timers like Tyrese Gibson and Ludacris, and the always-delightful Kurt Russell now has Clint Eastwood's son Scott Eastwood as a handsome-goof sidekick, and one-time antagonist Jason Statham reappears with his own unexpected connections. With a reported $250 million budget that could pay for two Fast Fives, everything onscreen suggests oversized decadence run amok. The eighth Furious, The Fate of the Furious, is unquestionably the biggest Furious.
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