Last third of the movie went from bad to worse.

Rating: 4/10 (26 May 2013)

As a motorsports fan, the fast and furious franchise has always been on my watch list. The cars, the intense actions always kept me at the edge of my seat. There were only 2 out of the previous 5 that I did not like which was 2 Fast 2 Furious and Tokyo Drift. Why? 2 Fast 2 Furious was plain, boring and too predictable of a story line. Tokyo drift wasn't too bad but I did not like the sudden absents of characters as I loved the casting in the first movie. The 4th installment got better and the 5th installment was even better which is very rare to find in such franchise movies. Hence, I went to the cinema the day it was released. By the end of the movie, I was cringing and ultimately disappointed with so many of the scenes that they did. As a motorsports fan, you tend to know what is possible and what isn't with cars, and you know specification of car models and their abilities, but with Fast and Furious you tend to let it slide because, well, it is after all a movie.
The starting of the movie, was good. I got more eager to watch what happens next. The bad parts of the movie started with a tank convoy. In the beginning Shaw and his team heist a military convoy so dramatically and when it came to protecting a piece of chip worth billions after knowing that Shaw was after it, the convoy was a simple 2 jeeps and a truck containing a military tank with the chip inside. Shaw then effortlessly manages to get into the tank and drive it out of the truck.. which was still to me, acceptable. Then, Dom saves Letty by performing a physically impossible stunt by jumping over the highway and landing on a car to break their very dramatic fall. That was the start of many crap scenes to come. It then got worse to the point where I almost left the cinema.
The ending scene is always the climax and and the most action. In this one, it involved a Russian cargo plane with a few cars that manage to keep up with the plane that landed and was going to take off again on what seemed like an endless runway...
It was as if a 10 year old boy directed the last third of the movie and it was horrible. I wonder if this could be the end of a good long streak of the franchise.