Fun action film (may contain spoilers)

Rating: 7/10 (5 July 2012)

If you like your action movies realistic, I wouldn't recommend Fast Five to you. Although if you enjoy watching one preposterous action scene and stunt after another and don't care that the characters appear to be some kind of superhumans that evade machine gun fire effortlessly and are able to fall off massive cliffs and not sustain any injury then you will find yourself extremely well rewarded.
Fast Five is an expertly made and shot action film. I said expertly shot because unlike most action movies these days the cinematography is not shaky and you get a real sense of the fight choreography and stunt driving. Also, some recent action films are cut so quickly that it all just looks like an incomprehensible mess. Thankfully, Fast Five isn't like that either.
Fast Five is most unlike a Fast and Furious film. Previous films in the series were about street racing and infiltrating the criminal underworld whereas this one is more of a heist movie on the lines of the Oceans Eleven films. I haven't seen the the first three "F and F" films all the way through but I've seen enough of them on TV to get a feel for what they're like. The fourth film "Fast and Furious" was OK but didn't leave a huge impression on me. Fast Five, however, is five times better in almost every way (well, the acting is still pretty basic with the actors doing what they're required to do and nothing more). I gotta admit though, the arrival of Dwayne Johnson into this franchise as tough agent Hobbs has also been a noticeable improvement.
The best dialogue scenes in the movie are between Hobbs and Dom Toretto(Vin Diesel). The two also have a crazy smackdown together which, after the final vault chase, is the movies best scene. Now I'll go as far as to say that the vault chase is probably one of the best chase sequences I've ever seen. I don't want to give too much away because I want to encourage you to watch this film and see why most critics and fans are giving this positive reviews.
However, like I said at the beginning of the review if you like realistic action films like the Jason Bourne films you probably won't enjoy this as much. Although, if you don't care that the main characters would probably be dead by the 20 minute mark in the film in real life then you will be extremely well rewarded.
Fast Five dosen't try to be realistic. It knows its absurd and dosen't take itself too seriously. For the people with broader imaginations for preposterous stunts you will have a fun time. Who cares if everything in this movie is impossible? its only a movie