"We're all just along for the ride now."
The fourth in the Fast & Furious franchise hits the ground running and merrily bowls along with scant regard for plot and character but relentlessly aims to please and entertain, which it manages for the most part. Playing at times like a Bourne-lite for petrolheads, Fast & Furious is handsomely shot, making great use of location work but curiously lacking in the car-candy that has been a trademark of the series. The action sequences are, well, fast and furious, and utterly preposterous, with a seeming reliance on CGI which occasionally make the speeder-bikes in Tron seem photorealistic. Paul Walker and Vin Diesel frown a lot in this film, because they are clearly doing very serious character work here, but the easy-going banter between them comes across well. Fast & Furious is very silly and very entertaining - in other words, the franchise has returned to form, and the prospect of a fifth film - nicely set up at the end - is not unwelcome.
The fourth in the Fast & Furious franchise hits the ground running and merrily bowls along with scant regard for plot and character but relentlessly aims to please and entertain, which it manages for the most part. Playing at times like a Bourne-lite for petrolheads, Fast & Furious is handsomely shot, making great use of location work but curiously lacking in the car-candy that has been a trademark of the series. The action sequences are, well, fast and furious, and utterly preposterous, with a seeming reliance on CGI which occasionally make the speeder-bikes in Tron seem photorealistic. Paul Walker and Vin Diesel frown a lot in this film, because they are clearly doing very serious character work here, but the easy-going banter between them comes across well. Fast & Furious is very silly and very entertaining - in other words, the franchise has returned to form, and the prospect of a fifth film - nicely set up at the end - is not unwelcome.
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