Fast Five

Fast Five

The most grounded of the Fast and Furious flicks

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Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2011

Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, and Jordana Brewster drag a bank vault through the streets of Rio (don’t try this at home), steal hot cars from a speeding train (this either), and perform a number of other physics-defying stunts, but I’d still have to call this the most grounded of the five (or is it three?) Fast and Furious flicks. Reason being that the vroom-vroom franchise has done to death the street-racing thing and moved on to a heist flick, albeit a skillfully made one with very cool fast cars and sexy babes. Dwayne Johnson is amusing trying to out-macho Diesel, and the Brazilian setting is gorgeous. Big screen.