‘Fast X’ Gon’ Give it to Ya: Part One Review

Here We Go Again, Again This is happening, again. If you are a fan of the Fast franchise, fast-ten your seatbelts! See what I did there? They had a perfectly good, built-in tagline and didn’t even capitalize on it. Listen y’all, Fast X is back like it never left, because it never left. Hasn’t left for twenty-two years. Honestly? It’s been as good as it’ll ever be. As the spectacle gets larger and more spectacular, it begs the question: will it ever be ‘too much’? How Much is Too Much? The answer is no. There is no ‘too much’. Dom Toretto and the family are back again like the Hess truck at Christmas. Come to think of it, that would be a hell of a cross-promotion! As per usual, the stakes are higher than ever. Well, the stakes are where they always are, but they feel more stake-y. There’s no real way to critique a Fast movie, it exists in a pocket dimension outside of the rules of cinema. This franchise literally breaks all of the parameters of “good” filmmaking and is a leap of predictable cash grabs. Despite all of that, this is the most entertaining movie on Bast’s green Earth, and we have to live with that fact. I laughed every single time the camera slowly crawled toward Dom’s tortured, angry face. Let’s get into it.

The Family [L to R]: Michelle Rodriguez as Letty, Sung Kang as Han, Nathalie Emmanuel as Ramsey, Vin Diesel as Dom, Leo Abelo Perry as Little Brian, Rita Moreno as Grandma, Jordana Brewster as Mia, Cris “Ludacris” Bridges as Taj, Tyrese Gibson as Roman; Phot…