Potentially billions in economic costs

Rating: 4/10 (25 September 2011)

I have been an ardent fan of each Fast and Furious. I watch them with the knowledge (and hope) that they will be corny, cheesy, etc. Thats the fun of Fast and Furious Franchise.
This franchise had the potential to be the best fast and furious yet, with people from each movie making appearances. What this movie lacked was what all the others have, there were no in depth scenes outlining the underground culture of brazil, barely and race scenes, and the storyline was too clichÃ© (even for my taste).
Forget all that, and lets think about something else. Throughout the movie (especially the entire ending) innocent individuals HAD to be killed. This movie glorify's being a bone head and killing innocent civilians. It promises that great rewards will come to those who take extraordinary risks without care to the adverse effects on the population. Assume the following, this movie will (through all forms of syndication) reach 50,000,000 people. Of those, this will have a defining influence on at least 5% of impressionable individuals (a modest estimate. So these 2.5 million individuals instead of dedicating their time towards hard work and rigirous study they instead will choose a life of crime with the impossible dream of actually not going to prison. In terms of economic benefit to the country (or shall I say countries) this movie is worse then dropping an atomic bomb on a major metropolitan area.
Fast and furious movies are supposed to be cheesy, but the cheesiness is only acceptable if accompanied by a view of a societys underculture and awesome racing scenes. This movie severely lacked both while managing to mislead the lives of several thousand (if not million) youth.