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carefully, coming close to the line but never crossing HH it. They cross it several times in PG-13, 2 hours 25 this new film. minutes - Action The issue Opens today in isn’t the theaters ridiculous * This review Joshua B. Porter stunts or action contains spoilers set pieces. Democrat correspondent unless you’ve seen Those are the trailer, which ruins all the fine. We all love an insane surprises anyway. action sequence, however improbable, to enjoy with elp, they finally our popcorn. The problem did it. After years lies when a sequence is of audiences glibly so ridiculous that it takes asking if the “Fast and the you out of the movie. This Furious” franchise would happened a few times in eventually become devoid of director Justin Lin’s “F9: The enough ideas on the ground to end up in outer space they Fast Saga.” Case in point: as our hero’s actually did it in “F9: The escape an insurmountable Fast Saga.” The ninth (10th amount of helicopter gunfire of you count the 2019 spinaround their vehicle they off “Hobbs & Shaw”) entry spot a bridge that leads to in the entertaining but lowthe border of the neighboring rent version of the “Mission: country and certain safety. Impossible” franchise finds If you take one look at that our heroes leaving the bridge you will know that it atmosphere in a Pontiac is not meant for a vehicle of Fiero to stop a weapon that this size (or any vehicle for might assist the bad guys in that matter). I’m talking the taking over the world. bridge at the end of “Indiana If this sounds absurd it Jones and the Temple of is. I’m aware that the “Fast” franchise has prided itself on Doom” (1984) type scary! One would figure if you are absurdity for several movies going to have characters be now. If you ask fans of the crazy enough to cross said franchise they’ll tell you that bridge in a heavy vehicle the filmmakers have always you could at least have the towed the line between car make it 90% across reality and absurdity
jump over the edge to safety. Thank goodness everyone is OK! That is just the first gravity-defying feat to throw you out of the film. There are others, culminating in the aforementioned space-car adventure but despite the absurdity, this action film still lives and dies by the creed of all motion pictures: is it entertaining? It is, in parts. The 1980s NASCAR flashback with a couple main characters in their youth is a neat switch for this franchise. I would have actually enjoyed it if the film stayed in that time period a bit longer. The film drags significantly in the mid-section as it catches up with old characters, re-introduces long-thought dead ones and randomly introduces others. If you are going to dare to be absurd let’s get to the good stuff! Truth be told the second half is much better than the first, where it begins to drag after the opening sequences. Once the big final action sequences are put in motion things get a lot more exciting, at least on Earth. Everything on the ground with Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto and team works and is a lot of fun. Every time they cut back up to that
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halfway across the bridge when it begins to break and fall, leaving our super-car to vertically speed straight up the side of the cliff and
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