Just more of the same

Rating: 4/10 (28 June 2012)

"Fast Five," so named because it is the fifth entry in the highly lucrative "Fast and Furious" franchise, finds our intrepid band of car-racing criminals, played by Vin Diesel , Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster, masterminding a heist against a South American crime lord played by Joaquim de Almeida . Wayne Johnson joins the cast as an American Secret Service agent hot on the trio's trail.
Replete with wafer-thin characters, corny one-liners, substandard acting and muddled moral messaging, the movie culminates in a spectacular, though really rather ludicrous, car chase through the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Strictly for aficionados of vroom-vroom storytelling.