Sunday, May 22, 2011

A Movie Review: Fast Five

Fast Five. Are there potentially liberties taken here in this movie? Oh yes. I’m not sure the whole final chase sequence makes any sense what so ever. Can a large heavy safe really get towed through the streets without tumbling wildly out of control? When did Gisele (Gal Gadot) become part of the Israel Mossad? And let’s just say that it takes you about 15 minutes to get used to the over-exaggerated dialogue.

But . . . though I wouldn’t rank this as one of the best 2011 movies (only five months in), I did have fun. How can you not when Vin Diesel (Dominic Torretto) and Dwayne Johnson (Hobbs) are beating each other up? And you have Gal Gado and Jordana Brewster (Mia) on screen. And the basic theme of the movie is stealing money from the kingpin – who doesn’t like that.

So, not a great movie, but a movie worth seeing (especially if you’re a Fast and Furious fan).

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