It seems that, by the release of Furious Six in 2013, the Fast and the Furious saga had slipped into a rather comfortable routine: a new film every two years, pushing forward the increasingly soap opera-like narrative each time and also pushing the franchise … Continue reading REVIEW: Furious Six (2013)
I was late to the relaunched Fast & Furious franchise, which seemed to die with 2006’s Tokyo Drift before unexpectedly coming back to life with the much-improved Fast & Furious three years later. Fast Five was released in 2011; with the benefit of hindsight it probably … Continue reading REVIEW: Fast Five (2011)
The Fast and the Furious was a weak action film that broadly plagiarised Kathryn Bigelow’s Point Break by simply replacing surfboards with cars and Patrick Swayze with Vin Diesel. It was a moderate hit back in 2001, and its success led to an … Continue reading REVIEW: Fast & Furious (2009)
I have never understood the naming conventions of the Fast & Furious films. In the USA this ninth instalment is titled F9: The Fast Saga, whereas here in Australia it has been released as the much more sensible Fast & Furious 9. Similar differences … Continue reading REVIEW: Fast & Furious 9 (2021)
While undertaking a secret government mission, Dominic Torretto (Vin Diesel) abruptly betrays his loose family of high-speed racers and goes rogue with a EMP generator. While his friends reel from his betrayal, they are forced to track him down and … Continue reading REVIEW: The Fate of the Furious (2017)
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