Speed, adrenaline, unprecedented car-driving skills, mind-blowing stunts, crime, codes of honour, justice, redemption and glory: it is time to re-enter the world of the Fast & the Furious!
Unless you’ve been living in a cave or have dedicated your life for the past decade to finding extinct species in the Amazon, chances are you’ve at least heard of, if not watched, some of the Fast and the Furious movies.
They fall into the special category of movies that are successful not just because of famous actors or brilliant scripts, but because they offer a new spark and a new concept that caters to a niche audience at first, but then spreads like a wild fire right across the spectrum.
Over the years, Fast and the Furious has evolved into a franchise, giving birth to a series of sequels and massively increasing its audiences on the blazing path to box-office success.
This year, Universal Pictures presents, to the delight of all action-thriller movie fans out there, another chapter in the Fast and the Furious series.
This latest film will take over where its predecessor, Fast Five, left off. Again we see our favorite anti-heroes doing what they do best: kick butt with the aid of awesome cars.
Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) return aided by their crew of trustworthy friends—Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster), Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibsin), Tej Parker (Chris “Ludacris” Cridges), Han Seoul-Oh (Sung Kang), Gisele Yashar (Gal Gadot), and Elena Neves (Elsa Pataky).
The crew helps Security Service agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) bring to task a group of highly-skilled and lethal mercenary drivers and a heist gang led by Owen Shaw (Luke Evans).
Although members of this team dispersed throughout different parts of the world after the last heist in Fast Five, they agree to do this job in lieu of a full pardon for their past crimes. This would mean a normal life without any criminal records.
What makes the plot more exciting this time, especially for Dominic, is that he gets to have a face-to-face encounter with former love Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriquez). And he had believed she was dead.
In a battle of who’s faster and meaner and who finishes across the line first – alive – Fast and Furious 6 looks like it intends to blur the distinction between what’s attainable and what is impossible.
With the exception of the 2009 Fast and Furious and Tokyo Drift (a decent enough movie in its own right), all others have something new to offer: the adrenaline rush that makes audiences think they have left the theatre seats and jumped right into the driver’s seat!
For some there is no better “pick me up” cinema than successfully putting together big muscles, awesome cars, death-defying stunts, gorgeous women and good enough storylines that make you anticipate the next sequel.
Releasing in Australian cinemas on June 6, this film should be a new experience of “vehicular warfare” with a cast so supercharged that it will either “ride or die!”.
