Fast & Furious 6

The mechanical, hastily put together screenplay of Fast & Furious 6 is closer to Die Hard 5 than to Fast & Furious 5. Meeting, action, meeting, action, meeting, action and so on. The meetings are not as funny as they would like to be and the action is comically exaggerated and not easy enough to follow, given that Fast & Furious is the most successful action series of today. Furthermore, the sixth instalment does not take place in an attractive exotic environment like the fifth one does and its story has detours that make it unnecessarily protracted and less dynamic (the visit in the jail, Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez racing), and we’ve already seen all of its highlights in the trailers. (05/26/2013)

A bit more spectacular again than no. 5. The title sequence nicely summarizes all past parts (except part 3) and throws us into the luxury life that the brand new millionaires Torreto/O'Connor enjoy the very full. There’s even a new addition to the family. Then Hobbs comes along and spoils everything with the photo. Then comes destruction, action, fights both male and female and, as usual, lots of fabulous cars and the phenomenal more-than-chases that seem to break the laws of physics. They are basically three really long and sophisticated, action scenes filmed the old way where sheet steel and people get dented. There’s even a TANK! Diesel and Lin egged each other on and stepped on the gas. Also the groundwork for the last (?) part is full of promise and at last justifies the making of the bland part 3. (05/25/2013)

The sixth film was almost able to convince me that Luke Evans is the worst actor in the world if I didn't know him from his many great roles. But Fast & Furious is a genre unto itself, and can only raise the credit of certain actors. The likes of Gal Gadot got three films in the series as a patch for not getting noticed in Quantum of Solace, and over the years she's made it from debutante Miss to someone Disney pays homage to in Ralph Breaks the Internet. That's not bad at all. (04/23/2022)

For me, this installment of the film series is roughly on the level of the oft-mocked second part: well made, but otherwise pretty bad. Thieves turn into secret agents, cars get hacked while driving with Bond-esque contraptions, Letty's resurrection is delivered like something out of the worst possible soap opera, the bad guy is as bad a character as the good guys... Plus the annoying pathos, not to mention the action scenes, which with all their car-to-car, car-to-plane, and plane-to-car jumps just crawl tongue-in-cheek to reality. Not much to see here. (05/20/2020)

Chris Morgan and Justin Lin knew what certainty they had in their hands, so it's a good thing they didn't have any reason to repeat themselves this time either. While the dialogue, after the previous simplification, have now ended up being nothing but slogans, wisdom, and catchphrases, the pace surprisingly slowed down and contrary to expectations, there is no exaggerated rush for any attraction. On one hand, that's a good thing because Brian can function as the main character thanks to his prison interlude; on the other hand, there is unexpectedly little happening in the first half. Nevertheless, the Furious gang easily reaches above average. In fact, some of the sequences really get your with their audiovisual concept (the race between Dom and Letty full of hypnotic atmosphere and well-deserved nostalgia), and the final inferno takes your breath away completely. And no, I'm not going to bother discussing the length of the runway in a movie where testosterone and gasoline can overpower absolutely anything. (07/08/2013)