Sunday, 25 September 2011

Fast Five (2011) 4/5 Stars

The Fast and Furious movie franchise has been a hit since its first movie in 2001. Focusing on a street racing, the series has the whole element of action and thriller on it.

After fascinating the adrenaline of the fans with the 4 previous installments, Fast Five is like the sequel that is being put on the top of the icing.
In this last series, directed by Justin Lin, the characters are nicely developed with a subtle twist in the plot here and there. The nice cars, their whole plan of robbing the number one mob in Rio de Janeiro will put your heart pumping and excited with it.

The former undercover cop Brian O’connor (Paul Walker) is teaming up again with Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel). They are being helped by Dominic’s sister Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster), and they also call in a team of street racers that has previously appear on the last 4 sequels.
The team includes The Chatterbox Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson), tech guy Tej Parker (Ludacris), Han Lue (Sung Kang), Gal Gadot (Gisele Harabo), Tego Leo (Tego Carderon) and Rico Santos (Don Omar).
They plan to rob off Hernan Reyes, the mob type businessman in Rio to get out for good and find a country with no extradition.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson also join the cast as FBI agent Hobbs who is hunting on Brian and Dominic with a super Hummer tank look alike car.

The cast delivered best acting so far for the series and the humor and storyline in this last installment is much more engaging.

Even at the end of the credit there is a teaser for the next Fast and Furious.

It is a worth waiting movie with all the hype about the whole installments.


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