Fast & Furious 6

Dir: Justin Lin

2013

**

The last film, Fast 5, saw the Fast & Furious team come together for one last heist that promised the ultimate payday. Everyone retired, spent their cash, settled down and indulged themselves in their various hobbies and interests. So what could possibly bring them out of retirement? A spectacularly ridiculous script of course! Taking a page out of your typical 1980s soap-opera, the story sees a past member who died four films ago come back to life and emerge in a rival fast car-driving crime team. Why didn't she let people know she was still alive I hear you cry? Amnesia of course! The get out of jail card for every lazy director out there wanting to make an unnecessary sequel. The crime team (sorry, family) have no choice but to get behind the wheels of their cartoon cars and claim their old friend as their own and save her from a life of crime so that she can join them in their life of crime, the difference between both being that one team doesn't talk much and purposefully kills people rather than accidentally kill people, which is perfectly acceptable. It is fair to say that people, myself included, don't watch the Fast & Furious films because they love the plot and character developments or the Shakespearean scripts, they watch it for the mindless action and it doesn't get much more mindless than this. Fast & Furious 6 is a 6th film too many. It was nice to see my beloved London town featured but only up until the America stereotype of what Brits are like reared its ugly head once more, we are all a bunch of snooty butlers it seems. Credit due for featuring a Ford Fiesta but I don't really have anything good to say about anything else. I'll try though. The plot has thickened ever so slightly, much like the last film the story is left on a cliff-hanger and for some bizarre reason I want to see what happens next. There were a couple of twists I didn't see coming and I think I might have smirked at one of the jokes. Essentially though, it is a greatest hits compilation, lazy but easy to watch, although featuring the same finale of the last film (the bit with the tank) towards the end of film was taking lazy to the next level.