Sunday, May 1, 2011

"Fast Five" Review

The main characters from all the past Fast and the Furious movies get together for their "last job" and formulate the best Fast and Furious movie of the franchise to date.  All previous roles are reprised: Vin Diesel (Dominic Toretto), Paul Walker (Brian O' Conner), Jordana Brewster (Mia Toretto), Tyrese Gibson (Roman Pearce), Ludacris (Tej Parker), Sung Hang (Han Lue), Matt Schulze (Vince), Tego Calderon (Tago Leo), Don Omar (Rico Santos), and Gal Gadot (Gisele Harabo).  Also included in this movie is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (Lucas Hobbs) playing a DSS agent, who never misses his man, is assigned to obtain and arrest Dom and O'Conner.  He is assisted by a rookie Rio patrol officer, Elena Neves played by Elsa Pataky, who Hobbs gets initially for as a translator.

The movie takes place in Rio when Dom comes up with a plan to get out of the game by making one last heist.  This plan is to steal the money of the most powerful man in all of Rio named Hernan Reyes played by Joaquim de Almeida.  Reyes is a businessman and a Brazilian drug lord.  Reyes has a henchman named Zizi who is played by Michael Irby.  Dom and O'Conner contact everyone and bring them all together to execute this plan.  However, after complications occur and Hobbs hot on their tail they are forced to change things up in order to pull off the heist.

The movie is filled with action sequences with a really solid screenplay.  There's plenty of comedy for everyone to enjoy and the acting is about the same as you'd get from any previous installment.  The film is definitely worth the trip to the theater and is by far the best film of the entire Fast and Furious franchise.  I'd rate this movie 4 out of 5 stars.

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