Fast and Furious 6

Title: Fast & Furious 6 (aka Furious 6)

Director: Justin Lin

Screenwriter: Chris Morgan

Producers: Vin Diesel, Neal H. Moritz, Clayton Townsend

Cast: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodríguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris Bridges, Sung Kang

Popcorn Movies Rating: 8

Just when we thought that it couldn’t get bigger

By: David Maldonado

“The Rock” is not the only one who got bigger. The whole movie goes to a massive level never before seen in the franchise.

Basically the film starts where the fifth ended. Dom (Vin Diesel), and Brian (Paul Walker), are racing on their own, with no one watching, enjoying the freedom that the country without extradition gives them. Everything goes wrong when Hobbs (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson), shows Dom the picture that we’ve seen of Letty (Michelle Rodríguez), at the end of Fast Five. Now Dom must gather the crew for one job with two purposes bring back Letty and earn their entrance to the U.S. as free man.

The creators of this franchise must ask themselves with each movie: How do we make this bigger? Because is getting ridiculous how massive are the racing scenes on Furious 6 (yes, that’s the title showed in the intro). Well, there are not exactly racing scenes on this one (safe for one), it their place the writer puts a lot of car chasing scenes. There are so much persecution scenes on this movie that every character suffers at least one big accident in which, of course, none of them gets hurt. Everyone survives accidents that could finish with all the nine lives of a cat, without a single scratch. Between that and sort scene on a bridge involving certain characters flying on the air, the phrase “Oh common!” is useless in this one.

That said, it is clear that we are not talking about an Academy Award Winner movie. We are talking about the Die Hard of racing cars. All the car sequences are great, full with action and emotion. Every single fan is going to be pleased at the end of the film.

The story is very simple. There is a bad guy. Letty is working with him. The crew must bring Letty back home. The truth is that it works. The focus point of the film is to discover how she survives and why she didn’t came back home. At least I can say that they came up with a good explanation of how that happens. But it must be clear that everything here has been made to please the fans. In other words, there are some decisions made in this film that if you think about it you will probably be disappointed. So is better if you just enjoy the ride and don’t think about it too much.

The theme is the family. That’s actually how (finally) the cast is feeling. On Fast Five there are characters knowing each other, but in this one everybody knows everybody. So they’re one big family in the film and it is perceive as if they have become one big family outside the set. Even Hobbs feels like part of the family, even being a cop. The new guy is the villain, Sebastian Shaw (Luke Evans). He did a fine job and maybe that’s because he is a good actor or because at last we have a bad guy who isn’t a drug dealer. Shaw is more like a terrorist, so he is more memorable than the others.

Universal Pictures has confirmed the seventh film for July 2014 release date.  That means that, even when we got a close ending, if you stay 10 more seconds you will witness an extra scene. In that scene we close one character gap (sadly but at last), and we’re introduced the new bad guy. And he makes an impression on both, ladies and men. With that scene the producers make a statement: Fast & Furious 7 will be bigger than this.