The first film was directed by Rob Cohen, and his departure from the sequel was seen as something the franchise might struggle to overcome. The Fast & Furious franchise consists of seven movies of gradually increasing mayhem, with an eighth hitting theaters on April 14, 2017. This is America reimagined as a fireball. Along the way, it freely appropriates tropes from the Halloween, Terminator, and James Bond franchises.īut underneath it all, Fast & Furious is a grand, glorious soap opera, with motor oil pumping through a heart measured in horsepower. It starts out as a low-key story of illegal street racers and eventually becomes, for all intents and purposes, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) but with cars.
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They're a testament to the bravery and diversity of this great land, to its boldness of spirit and openness of heart.Īnd, yes, to its ability to solve pretty much any problem by hurling a car at it.įast & Furious is a mutant hybrid horror of a movie franchise. They feature openly sentimental, oddly complex storytelling.
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They have a huge, talented, racially diverse cast. They boast a healthy affection for old-fashioned, practical effects work, where most of the cars we see crashing are really cars crashing, not sprites in a computer.
The Fast & Furious movies stand as one of the best film franchises America has going for it right now - and maybe even a gloriously dumb representation of everything good about America. That experience made me not just a convert, but an evangelist. Then I watched the first seven of them in a week. I had always been skeptical of the films' powers, perhaps because I had only seen 2 Fast 2 Furious (easily the worst installment) and Fast Five - without sound, while on a plane (still pretty awesome). There was a time when I had seen but one and a half movies in the Fast & Furious franchise.
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