Saturday, May 28, 2011

Review: Fast Five

Fast Five is about former cop Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) partners with ex-con Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) on the opposite side of the law.

fast five official poster

Since Brian and Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster) broke Dominic out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom.

fast five brian and mia

As they assemble their elite team of top racers (and utility men), the unlikely allies know their only shot of getting out for good means confronting the corrupted businessman who wants them dead for crossing his territory.

fast five group

But he's not the only one on their tail. Hard-nosed federal agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) was on a mission to stop them as well.

fast five dominic and hobbs

When he was assigned to track down Dominic and Brian, he and his strike team launched an all-out assault to capture them. Putting on several gadgets and methods in order to be successful.

fast five dominic and brian

Overall, the movie was filled with excitement and definitely gave a huge rush of adrenaline to the audience. The scenes were well plotted and the actions were just awesome.

In this edition of Fast and Furious, there isn't much about cars though. Just some fast cars in the beginning of the movie, some car chases here and there and notably, the group stole police cars and had a quick race on the road.

One of my favourite characters is definitely Han Lue, played by Korean Sung Kang.

fast five hand and gisele

He had a crush on Gisele Harabo (Gal Gadot) throughout the movie and ended up being together at the end of the show. Somehow his coolness emits a certain attraction. Perhaps it's his wavy hair, or just his steady and calm personality.

Also at the end of the show, Dominic ended up with Elena Neves (Elsa Pataky) the policewoman who collaborated with Hobbs in the mission to capture Dominic and Brian.

fast five dominic and elena

Not expected though, since there were signs of attraction between the two when Elena wore Dominic's cross necklace that she found it on the ground. Eventually Dominic looked for her and took it back.

The rest of the characters which formed the "ultimate" group were more or less additional actors who took part in the movie. The movie still focuses on Dominic, Brian and Mia - and also a little of Hobbs.

So the purpose of a "last job" was to steal the money from a corrupted businessman in Rio de Janeiro. As the saying goes "Good guys always win" - yes, that could be applied to this movie. They successfully extracted the huge-ass safe box with only 2 cars (which is quite impossible in reality I guess) and they all went their own ways as instant millionaires.

Noobie Rating: 8/10 (Not about cars, but must watch!)

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