Posted on Tuesday, 10 May 2011

FAST FIVE (Lin, 2011, C) - My taste may seem eclectic at times, but really, the appeal of FAST FIVE isn’t that different from that of, say, DJANGO: its logic doesn’t stand up to close scrutiny (or any scrutiny at all, really), and the physics of the world is takes place in are tweaked ever so slightly, but it’s 130 minutes of nigh-uninterrupted entertainment - sure, you’re laughing as much AT the movie as with it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun. And the homo-erotic tension! You can’t tell me I’m reading too much into things this time: just look at the picture above! Diesel shares more significant looks with the Rock than with his putative love interest, and when they finally fight, the Rock takes his body armor off. Seriously, it’s almost a sex scene, and the testosterone practically drips from the screen. I also appreciated that the cast was so multicultural (there are only two unambiguously non-latino whites here), and that the setting (Brazil) was actually used very actively, as opposed to having it stand in for ‘some third-world country’. But those are afterthoughts: what matters is the fun, and this movie brings it in spades. 

FAST FIVE (Lin, 2011, C) - My taste may seem eclectic at times, but really, the appeal of FAST FIVE isn’t that different from that of, say, DJANGO: its logic doesn’t stand up to close scrutiny (or any scrutiny at all, really), and the physics of the world is takes place in are tweaked ever so slightly, but it’s 130 minutes of nigh-uninterrupted entertainment - sure, you’re laughing as much AT the movie as with it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun. And the homo-erotic tension! You can’t tell me I’m reading too much into things this time: just look at the picture above! Diesel shares more significant looks with the Rock than with his putative love interest, and when they finally fight, the Rock takes his body armor off. Seriously, it’s almost a sex scene, and the testosterone practically drips from the screen. I also appreciated that the cast was so multicultural (there are only two unambiguously non-latino whites here), and that the setting (Brazil) was actually used very actively, as opposed to having it stand in for ‘some third-world country’. But those are afterthoughts: what matters is the fun, and this movie brings it in spades. 

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