Most Ridiculous Film I've Seen All Year

Rating: 4/10 (16 November 2013)

I've rated this a 6, because it is well made, the visuals, cgi and effects are all well done, they clearly made good use of the budget they had. It's saturated, contrasty and glossy.
However, it is single handedly the most ridiculous film I've seen this year. The story line is OK, it's your standard naughty boys after some top secret tech. But the stunts in it are just unbelievable.
When you make a film in a specific genre, there are constraints to that genre. You don't get alien spaceships flying around London in Bond films and you don't get scenes of real life snuff in Finding Nemo. But in FF6 they over stepped the acceptable mark. This could easily pass as an X Men film the way some of the scenes are played out. The characters are indestructible, there is no "protocol" - basically American police come to England and start pulling guns and violence on officials whilst making their demands all whilst American civilians are allowed to wonder the city shooting automatic weapons without so much as an eyelid bat - and there are more plot holes than an 24 hour Syfy film.
Whilst the film does the typical americanism of portraying the British police as bumbling fools who are easily beaten up - probably a poke at us not all carrying guns - they do portray London very well indeed. On the subject of police, it's quite hilarious to see these "street racers" in some of the worlds fastest most powerful cars, screaming down the streets with their lives on the line, with the London police cars tailing them by only a matter of meters.
So yeah, the portrayal of London was very nicely done and there is a scene or two showing a lot of armed response police which makes a change.
There's one women who I particularly liked, she had a big bag of balls and a great mma fighting style.
The only other thing that stood out was Ludicrous' acting which was a lot more toned down and believable, instead of the usual "nigga you be trippin on ma wraps up in her'".
Amongst other things, and trying to avoid spoilers, they have the worlds longest runway, chasing an aeroplane as it takes off for about 30 minutes which also climbs at a rate of about 10cm a minute - if that. They have a tank that vapourises EVERY car it touches - apart from the American protagonists which it just pushes along. And these people can repeatedly jump great heights / several stories high and hit the floor (or moving car) without a scratch. If they shot a scene where the Rock jumped from the moon and landed in a 2ft swimming pool in Iceland, it wouldn't look out of place in this film.
And that's what ruins it, it just goes WAY too far.
If you like ridiculously over the top unbelievable films, you'll love FF6. But they really do push things WAY over the line from "maybe plausible" to just being a complete joke.