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    Fast & Furious 6

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    “Fast & Furious 6” isn’t as good as its immediate predecessor, but it continues to amp up the action, dazzle the eyes with stunts and utilize its characters well. What happens here is absolutely preposterous, but it's fun so you won’t mind.

    Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his “family” have been enjoying the spoils of the Brazillian heist when DSS agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) comes back into their lives. Promising amnesty and information on a woman who appears to be Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), he asks for help apprehending former special ops soldier Owen Shaw (Luke Evans) Soon, Brian (Paul Walker), Mia (Jordana Brewster), Roman (Tyrese Gibson), Tej (Ludacris), Han (Sung Kang) and Gisele (Gal Gadot) are back behind the wheel.

    We've drifted far from the street race plots and into a summer blockbuster with a James Bond villain luring our characters through a “Mission: Impossible”-style plot. It could’ve gotten out of control, but the emotional core keeps it together. It still has the heart that made “The Fast and The Furious” a favorite. Writer Chris Morgan and director Justin Lin know that people like the cars, but never forget the characters and give them all some spotlight. Seeing how Roman and Tej dig into each other, the relationship between Han and Gisele or Brian and Mia raise their son ensures that you’re emotionally invested. Yes, Letty’s return feels like something out of a soap-opera, but you want to find out what’s going on there.

    Whereas the big action setpiece that constitutes the climax isn’t quite the jolt of adrenaline found in "Fast Five", what “6” benefits from is an ingenious villain. It’s not enough that Shaw is a diabolically clever driver and planning on doing all sorts of Lex Luthorian deeds once he gets his slimy paws on the thing he’s looking for, he’s also got himself an "evil twin" version of the “family”, except they're not people he cares about, they're just pawns. You’d be rolling your eyes, but he’s so much fun to hate and the races, the chases, the developments and the sequences of danger are so big that you’re having a blast. You embrace the silliness and by the end of it, “Fast & Furious 6” feels like a superhero movie where at least everything is consistent in it’s gravity-defying, physics-bypassing lunacy.

    You may lament the fact that “Fast & Furious 6” is no longer about the car culture that mesmerized teenaged and gearhead audiences back in 2001, but it’s all for the better. Everything you liked about those other films is still here and at this point, the damage-control is almost finished (there’s a mid-credit sequence that ties up the last of the bone-headed decisions from the previous films) “Fast & Furious 6” is entertaining throughout despite, or is it because of? It’s wiliness to go all the way. (On Blu-ray, April 11, 2017)

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    adamwatchesmovies@  24.4.2017 age: 26-35 2,867 reviews

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