Fast Five Blu-Ray Review

Rating: 8/10 (25 January 2012)

It was quite serendipitous that I caught Fast Five in the theatres. There were over ten of us planning to go watch the much-talked-about Bridesmaids but when my car group got there (late), we had three friends trying to save like 15 seats on a long weekend—wasn't happening. There were still seats left in the first few rows of the theatre but I'd personally rather not watch the movie if I had to strain my neck for 2 hours and potentially feel sick. So me and a buddy volunteered to leave the group and go watch another flick that was airing around the same time. And that's how I ended up sitting (in very decent seats) in the cinema showing Fast Five.
Fast Five is the latest instalment to the "Fast" movie series and the third film of the franchise directed by Justin Lin (Fast & Furious, Tokyo Drift). I have to say that Lin has successfully revived this series that I thought was over and done with, when the Diesel-less 2 Fast and 2 Furious came out. The director has managed to not only revive the series but has been able to evolve it into a franchise he can call his own now. It's been over a decade since the first film came out and Fast Five comes full circle and basically pays homage to all the previous movies with almost all the "Fast" characters coming back (some characters meeting for the first time)—it feels like one big high school reunion.
The story takes off exactly right where the 4th film left off, where, Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker, Takers) and Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster, Fast & Furious) are going to rescue Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel, who's also the producer of the film)—in very appropriate "Fast" style—from the prison bus. They end up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where they plan to pull one last job, a big heist which involves taking $100 million dollars from a drug kingpin and his army of corrupt cops. All this, while being hunted down by a bad ass DSS federal agent, Agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson, who's last film is ironically entitled, Faster) and his crew.
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