Fast and Furious 9
100 words or less:
In a word family. Listen, if you are coming here expecting me to claim this is an oscar nominee, you are wrong. This is however an extremely fun, “turn your brain off” movie where you can have a couple hours of stupid entertainment watching fast cars and explosions. Also for as many memes as there are about Vin Diesel saying family from the previous movies, I am 99% sure he doesn’t say it once in this installment.
Full review:
I was debating even reviewing this movie. Those who are friends with me on Facebook know I saw this last weekend and I am just now getting around to writing this up. I didn’t feel like this is a movie that needs explaining. But dammit, I am going to explain.
This movie is a perfect example of the type of film I like to call the “turn your brain off” movies. You know the sort, the ones where you can just lower your expectations and watch a dumb comedy or an explosion filled action movie. This isn’t going to win the Oscar for best screenplay or best actor, but it is still just pure entertainment.
From the totally believable plot points, to the overly dramatic flashbacks to young Dom Torretto, this movie definitely rides the line of “taking itself too seriously” near the beginning. Then we get the whole crew back together and the movie just says “screw it” and starts to nearly break the fourth wall and mock itself with the mockery of how the characters realize they are invincible and the overuse of the word family by every character except for Vin Diesel’s character (probably because he is so macho that he couldn’t stand the internet mercilessly mocking him for saying it 400 times in the previous two installments). I definitely give this movie some props for not taking itself seriously because really how can you take sending a car strapped to a rocket to space seriously.
Overall, if you need me to convince you to see this movie, don’t see it. If you want to go entertain yourself in the heat by going to a theater and sitting in the 65 degree air conditioning for two and a half hours, and you don’t want to see a movie that is going to inception you and confuse the crap out of you to the point where you still 3 years later don’t fully understand it, then this is definitely the movie for you.
7.5/10 cheesy family lines.
