Review: "Fast and Furious 6"
Jun. 16th, 2013 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebFun romantic comedy.
Well, okay, a fantasy. Though I did laugh, aloud, for too long, after this one crazy awesome mid-air rescue of one guy's love.
Yes, yes, another turn-of-the-century special effects movie with too much violence, too many American fake happy endings (though one less than I wanted), loads of gratuitious skin shots, all the usual.
But fun. See Vin Diesel playing the brains of the bunch. Surely he doesn't get to do that often, eh? See fast cars racing around in exciting ways. And crazy jumping across fast vehicles. Which are not just cars. Hear melodramatically cool lines. And there is also some great romantic wooing going on as well.
One guy was pretty annoying, but it's an ensemble movie--he doesn't get loads of screen time. There were also, obviously, a few plot problems, many having to do with the laws of physics--but I expected that going in, so none of them actually bothered me. A couple bothered Robin.
I saw the first "Fast and Furious" (which I've completely forgotten except I remember that an early scene was amazing), but none of the other sequels; you don't need any of that for this.
**
And watching the previews for this movie, I learned that "Machete," which started as a fake trailer to play between the movies in the Tarantino/Rodriguez Grindhouse double feature, not only became a real movie, but will soon have a sequel. Machete was also fun and has one of my favorite fight scenes, where our hero is annoyed that he has to get involved in another fight and has to make the decision on whether, in preparation, to set down his drink or his breakfast taco. I think he made the right choice.
Well, okay, a fantasy. Though I did laugh, aloud, for too long, after this one crazy awesome mid-air rescue of one guy's love.
Yes, yes, another turn-of-the-century special effects movie with too much violence, too many American fake happy endings (though one less than I wanted), loads of gratuitious skin shots, all the usual.
But fun. See Vin Diesel playing the brains of the bunch. Surely he doesn't get to do that often, eh? See fast cars racing around in exciting ways. And crazy jumping across fast vehicles. Which are not just cars. Hear melodramatically cool lines. And there is also some great romantic wooing going on as well.
One guy was pretty annoying, but it's an ensemble movie--he doesn't get loads of screen time. There were also, obviously, a few plot problems, many having to do with the laws of physics--but I expected that going in, so none of them actually bothered me. A couple bothered Robin.
I saw the first "Fast and Furious" (which I've completely forgotten except I remember that an early scene was amazing), but none of the other sequels; you don't need any of that for this.
**
And watching the previews for this movie, I learned that "Machete," which started as a fake trailer to play between the movies in the Tarantino/Rodriguez Grindhouse double feature, not only became a real movie, but will soon have a sequel. Machete was also fun and has one of my favorite fight scenes, where our hero is annoyed that he has to get involved in another fight and has to make the decision on whether, in preparation, to set down his drink or his breakfast taco. I think he made the right choice.