Silly but fun movie

Rating: 7/10 (14 July 2013)

I had a great evening watching Furious, I'm not really into street racing - but this film is more about the fighting and the bravado - and faux 'coolness'. The Rock seems to have somehow bulked up EVEN MORE for this role (it didn't look healthy - but I couldn't stop staring at his arms!) and his screen presence made Vin Diesel look like an ant, but Dwayne was fun to watch - if a little overly serious for such a silly film.
Anyway, the runway scene has been discussed at length already - how about the bit when a car on one carriageway attached to a tank on the other side by a wire manages to pass by several concrete pillars without knocking them over (the wire actually passed through the pillars???) is totally impossible physics but you forgive it cos it's an ACTION film.
I'm not a huge F&F fan because I have a modicum of common sense, so probably why I'm not upset that they didn't try to make another Tokyo Drift and tried something different in this film.
Gotta say by far my favourite bit was where for some unknown but brilliant reason the director had Vin and Rock have a conversation at the end where they stand at different distances from the camera and both appear to grow and shrink as the angle changes. You'll know when you watch it what bit I'm talking about - right after one of the 'crew' comments that Vin's two wives are "sexy as hell" (or was that "sexy as a hill"?).
Honestly - we watched that bit a second time over and laughed up some beer. It's hilarious! More of that in F7, PLEASE...!
The ending is awful, considering all the squished Spanish people and mourning families of innocent military henchmen Vin and Dwayne et.al leave in their wake.
7/10 for the fun of watching high budget nonsense - and the perspective scene :-D