As Bad As It Gets

Rating: 2/10 (2 April 2015)

I watched "Fast Five" off HBO GO a year or so ago (terrible!), and now my brother-in-law (who's coming in for Easter) is talking about us going to see the new FF7 film, so I thought I'd catch up and watch this 2013 "Furious 6"- even worse!
I always thought the original F&F was basically a remake of a much better action film- 1991's "Point Break"- which I see they're now remaking-?? (ugh!)- only diff. is you replace the sky-diving and surfing with car-racing. Instead of under-cover agent Keanu Reeves; you have undercover agent Paul Walker (RIP), and instead of Patrick Swayze (RIP), you have Vin Diesel (and replace Swayze's ex-GF Lori Petty with Diesel's sister, Jordana Brewster). But I never liked the original film; not sure if I remember whether or not I've seen the first sequel- 2003's "2 Fast 2 Furious" (hope not; would've been an awful waste of 2 hours! LOL).
But this sixth installment- wow!- where to begin--?? -the acting sucks, the writing sucks, but overall the direction sucks. I had a director friend of mine once explain to me that bad acting is a symptom of bad direction. I've see Diesel in several good works ("Pitch Black", "Boiler Room", "Knockaround Guys", "Saving Private Ryan", "Find Me Guilty") for instance, so I know he's talented. He obv. keeps returning to these films for the ka-ching!- and really, who could blame him-?? This movie series is symptomatic of how low the overall intelligence of the American movie-going public has become, so why not ride that gravy train all the way to the bank??.....as many frickin times as you can??? LOL