Fast and Furious 6: Enjoy the six-pack

Fast and Furious 6

Starring : Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Luke Evans

Rated: 7.5/10

Well, well, well — here the speedometer races across 900 miles an hour, and still doesn’t show any signs of exploding! Yet there are many explosions in F&F6. Here, the muscles explode, the rides explode, the buildings explode and the good old Russian war plane also explodes. Amid all this, there is also an explosion of familial sentimentality, of loyalty, of friendship and of a love that returns with no memory of Dom’s syrupy relationship of the past. To build all this family drama on a fast and furious car chasing, crime chasing criminal gang and a top cop trying to defy gravity in almost all sequences is a brilliant job done.

Vin Diesel and his troupe are in top performance gear, chasing a former Brit Army rogue trying to steal some computer chip that will do America huge loss. But the film is not fleshed out on this villain’s villainy. It is purely pivotal on Dom’s lovegirl going blank and he getting sentimental about it — so sentimental in fact that he can be lured into leaving his cushy Brazilian pad in exile, to say in a laconic manner that “I don’t do cold” and, then precisely do that! His buddies, friends in crime, former teammates — call them what you may — are a bunch of exploding talent in the art of fighting the impossibilities — usually with an irritating grin. They are no different from the earlier franchisees, butF&F6 scores with its audacity of action sequences, its reality defying car chases, its over-the-top airborne stunts, its falling buildings, its rocketing anchor nails, its technology mumbo-jumbo and, above all, the gay abandon with which it inserts adrenaline and forgiveness in your veins — in equal measure if you please!

Yes, it is unbelievable, yes you know this ain’t happening in real life, whatever the muscle density, howsoever desperate the intention. But then Director Lin does well to tell you how to make incredibility a sideshow, how to package a superhuman two-hour in meticulous special effects, how to keep the audiences hooked by playing to the gallery with funny dialogues (they are few and far between the action chases) and how to keep the foot on the accelerator as if there’s no tomorrow. F&F6 comes with unbeatable vrooom! And, there’s F&F7 coming to — with Jason Statham as the bad guy!  

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 26 May, 2013