Couldn't have been done better

Rating: 10/10 (5 April 2015)

Please review movies in the context of what the movie is. Fast and the Furious was always story second to the ooh and aah. I watched the first movie in high school and remember one thing about that movie..how cool the cars were. I remember some character arcs sure...but babes and horsepower were the theme. If anything, this movie pays a lot of respect to the first. Sure the effects and outcomes of action were way over the top. But it didn't pretend to be realistic. It was purely for thrills. The budget of this movie was obviously carved out nicely. People expected gratuitous action sequences to close out the series. I couldn't imagine getting caught up in some lame "story" and then after 2 and a half hours sitting in my chair thinking to myself, where was the finale? Could they have done better than Statham being some British assassin? Probably. The storyline was forced. But it's mindless entertainment that doesn't need anything else.