Musings: Fast Five (2011)

Movie review

Fast and Furious 5 aka Fast Five (2011)

Directed by Justin Lin

Cutting the chase, Fast Five is a popcorn flick. And that is of course part of its charm, as it slyly tries to make its way as a hybrid of Ocean’s Eleven (2001) and The Italian Job (2003), but unfortunately, it speeds too much from reality, believability or even plain logic. But as you steer your way to the alluring Rio de Janeiro, fantastic cars, blazing guns, flying quips and toned bods, you’ll probably go back to the normal gear and forgive this. Then, you drive along ‘til you see some fist-to-fist, square off action, (not WWE type though) from Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Vin Diesel.

Sometimes, it is never about logic; there are times, you just want to sit back and relax and no matter how ‘dying’ the protagonists can look like or can be, still, they’d end up alive, not to remind us once again how dumb we can get, but to calm our nerves that, in the end and truth be told, we just want to be entertained, Fast and Furious style. So, for now, ‘F**k logic!’, you say.