Fast & Furious 6 (2013) – Movie Review

20130524_2159On the Road Again and Again

Judging by the endless list of credits following the whiplash inducing car vs. cargo-plane chase at the end of “Fast & Furious 6” it wasn’t easy for this edition of the high octane franchise to top the first five flicks. But somehow director Justin Lin and his usual suspects manage to outrace, outgun and out soap opera their previous pedal to the metal efforts, all in the name of family, fast cars and Michelle Rodriquez.

Once again Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who is now so huge he should be called “The Boulder” lead the returning cast of wise cracking, fancy driving and death defying multiracial regulars as they head to London to bring down rogue Special Ops commander Owen Shaw, played with malevolent relish by Luke Evans, and his crew of mercenaries all equipped with supercars of their own.  Shaw is one piece of stolen high-tech hardware away from completing some sort of gizmo that, when sold to the highest bidder, would render inoperable the security communication of an entire country.

But what’s this government business got to do with Dominic Toretto (Diesel) and Brian O’Conner (Walker)?  When last seen the former street racer and FBI agent turned high stakes hustlers had retired to the extradition free Canary Islands after a $100-million score at the end of “Fast Five” the series’ fifth sequel   Agent Luke Hobs (The Boulder) arrives at Dominic’s door to explain and display the one piece of evidence that would bring Toretto’s gang out of retirement, a recent photograph of Dominic’s beloved Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriquez).  Letty was presumed dead in a fiery crash midway through “Fast & Furious” the 2009 edition.  But if pictures are to be believed, Letty is indeed alive and is somehow involved in Shaw’s band of high-tech guns for hire.

Never mind the fate of the world, Dominic has no choice but to find out for himself if Letty is alive and bring her back to his side, the side that tears up streets, robs banks and hacks computer systems for good and as extra motivation, full pardons to return stateside for Team Toretto.  So determined is Dom to rescue long lost Letty, that when he eventually comes face to face with her and she promptly shoots him, he barely blinks, even later while plucking a custom made bullet from his own shoulder.

“You don’t turn your back on family, even when they do,” is his code, which as belief systems go falls somewhere between the Three Musketeers “One for all and all for one” and the Hells Angels’ “One on all and all on one.”  What a difference a preposition makes.

Be sure to pay close attention during the first ten minutes of “Fast & Furious 6” when the game plan is explained or you’ll be horribly confused for the remaining 120 minutes.  Still, even if you do sit up and take notes, you’ll at some point find yourself wondering “Now what the Hell is going on?” since much of the rubber burning action takes place at night, on dimly lit streets and climaxes on a dark endless straight away that seems to last from London, UK to New London, CT.

“Buckle up and hang on” Tej (rapper/actor Ludacris) advises Roman (rapper/actor Tyrese) early on and that’s good advice to anyone riding with the Toretto crew or sitting in a movie theater this summer.  And for those who go for this sort of thing, the only downside of “Fast & Furious 6” is the year and a half wait for “Fasterer And Even More Furiouser” (title to be confirmed) which will introduce a certain “handsome” actor from the “The Italian Job” into the asphalt melting mayhem and not a sequel too soon.

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Author: Spyder Darling