Sunday, May 26, 2013

Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

Rated: PG13 - Runtime: 130 min
tesg's Rating: Three stars (out of four)

THIS is the big release of 2013 I'd been waiting for.  Not "Iron Man 3".  Not "Star Trek: Into Darkness".

THIS one.

And it did NOT disappoint.

Our bad guys get to be the good guys by trying to stop a bad guy.  The action scenes are insane.  The fight scenes are fantastic (two of the best cat fights ever).  And there's all sorts of humor dotted throughout, including a bit only I seemed to catch and laugh at (one of the characters has Dwayne Johnson's character programmed in his phone as "Samoan Thor").  And the scene after the race between Dom and Letty...WOW.

I had just two complaints...the lame last twist leading to the big finale (even though I had no complaints with said finale) and the walkie talkies while driving.  Hello!  Hands-free?  Headsets?

There's a teaser for the seventh movie that will make you smile wide.  It didn't make me jump out of my seat and shout an obscenity in the auditorium like the teaser in the last film did (NOT kidding), but it had everybody talking on the way out.