Honestly I don’t even remember watching Fast & Furious (that’s Fast 4) but let’s be honest you don’t really need to know too much of the back story to fully enjoy any of the movies in the “The Fast and The Furious” franchise – you just have to enjoy slick cars, fine men, hot gals and heist / trickster storylines. Fast Five opens with Vin Diesel being broken out of his prison transport bus by Jordana Brewster and Paul Walker. They escape to Rio where the rest of this movie is set. They find themselves out of money so help out on a job heist to lift three cars from a train. In short there’s a sort of double-cross and the trio end up with the car which has something very important in it – so important that the drug king pin of Rio would do anything to get it back. Of course the DEA get involved … and welcome to The Rock. He is the man. I swear – total chemistry when The Rock and Vin Diesel are onscreen (and not in a g*y way!) You’d think that two big actors like that onscreen would be a total fizzle but they are absolutely awesome together. Love those guys.
Fast & Furious differs slightly from the rest of the franchise in the sense that there is less focus on the street-racing scene and more on the heist angle, think of an Italian Job and Ocean’s Eleven mash-up. The one surprise of the movie was that it was really long – you don’t often get action movies going beyond the 90 minute mark, guess they had a load of action and “story” to fit in.
Its got a giant cast (google if you really care to know) but kudos definitely to the cast for not taking it all too seriously. The movie was hot on action but it was also very entertaining and funny. Did I mention that the cast are particularly attractive in this movie – people-wise and car-wise! Movie was also a laugh a minute and it certainly had some memorable quotes. My favourite:
Roman Pearce: Sexy legs, baby girl. What time do they open?
Gisele: [pulls her gun on Roman] They open at the same time I pull this trigger. Want me to open them?
Ha!
Look out for the hook at the end of the movie after the “first” set of credits.