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)
Timeline, a Richard Donner film adapted from the Michael Crichton novel, was a critical and commercial failure upon release. I have never been entirely certain as to why. Certainly the film is no masterpiece but it tells a reasonably smart … Continue reading REVIEW: Timeline (2003)
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