I Couldn't Park Realism for Fantasy...Sorry.

Rating: 5/10 (20 June 2013)

Dispense With Credible Story, Quality ActingAdd More Cow Bell (i.e. cars in this case) Heck yeah, this is F&F6 and we don't need no stinkin' realism to muck-up the fine action. Do we? Apparently not as Vin Diesel and Paul Walker trade leads In a most curvaceous alpine-ish mountain road which is, perhaps, somewhere in Italy near the Alps in order to claim first at the cloistered whatever (a monastery?) where Paul's other half is giving birth to his son. Wow, mindless racing where any minute you could be killed if you went over a curve? But hell yes its worth it if GT-R was ahead of the Detroit combobulation called a Challenger. Definitely worth the risk your infant child will become fatherless, no doubt! I'm rambling, but this movie starts out absolutely inane in every way.
I love to be entertained with smart action such as fantastic car chases, but I abhor movie scripts that are so "dumbed-down" as to make such demands, uh, like erasing a lifetime of education in order to "buy-in" to all the BS. I also love comic-strip characters done right movie-wise, but supposedly (yeah, lol!) real-life ex-cons co-opted for an elite squad of a Seal Team 6 vehicular assault "black-ops" teamWell, you need some damn fine writing to pull this off. Sorry, but this is a real mess. The dialog seems as if a fifth-grader wrote , edited, and gave it the "hell yeah" I like it "thumbs-up". It is so poor as to be laughable. I didn't skip the premise, but actually waited until now to say it is among the most inane senseless movie concepts I've ever seen brought to screen with what appears to be a huge budget. P.T. Barnum's axiom of suckers must be like Moore's Lawit just goes on and on.
It's not something to be particularly proud of, but the actors/actresses approach this stuff like it has merit. I'll give them some credit for that. With the infantile silly crap they've been given to work with they give it 110%. It can't save this morass of embarrassmentsexcept for the over-the –top car chases. That is the raisin De ete for this whole thing and they've really tried to meld reality with digital "we'll do anything we damn well please" craftsmanship. This is where the franchise clearly goes from trying to have a foot in reality and stepping deeply into this is a comic-strip come to life movie which gives us total creative control. So, if you can last long enough through the interspersed crap of this mess and get to the several car chases sandwiched insidePlus, get into your no need for reality "I'm watching an excellent comic-strip brought to life" mode, then you can actually see some art and some value in FF6.
What I've asked of you is pretty big bill of goods. Your time is probably much more valuable and why should anyone ask you to dumb yourself downRight? Well, surprisingly I'm going to tell you for the car chase scenes you just might want to tryOtherwise, skip this dreck. I fear for several of these actors/actresses futuresI hope they got a slice of the pie cause we all know there's a huge number of folks who love this fifth-grader with unlimited wallet stuff out there. It'll be a big opening a big following 3 or 4 weeks, a big pay-per-view, and another life on DVD/Blu-Ray. It's still crap though.