Agent Luke Hobbs enlists Dominic Toretto and his team to bring down former Special Ops soldier Owen Shaw, leader of a unit specializing in vehicular warfare.
Even by the paltry standard of previous scripts, it’s slow-witted and won’t shut up.
Mercifully, there’s plenty of ludicrously exciting stunt driving to offset such spluttering storytelling.
Large-scale nonsense executed so strongly and gleefully as in this, the series’ high point by far, is strangely admirable.
The highlight is a car-tank battle on a Spanish motorway; the climax itself, on a NATO base runway, never quite achieves liftoff.
The lame attempts at banter sound as horrible to my ears as the feral growl of souped-up engines, but what do I know? The last F&F made over $600m worldwide, and the seventh, as a sneak preview indicates, is on the way.
No film that includes a Vin Diesel flying headbutt could remotely be called a write-off, and Furious 6, like its predecessors, is a big screen no-brainer that’s objectively terrible but undeniably pleasurable. A reversal from Fast 5, it’s still a gear above all the other sequels. And an end-credits teaser promises much for the future...
Despite being the sixth movie in the petrol-head franchise starring Paul Walker and Vin Diesel, this film's got a fair bit in the tank; it's silly but enjoyable.
While Fast & Furious 6 is a fun continuation of Fast 5, it’s not able to achieve the same heights. The carmageddon is still enjoyable in a daft way, but some of it is a bit over-the-top even for this franchise. Which is saying something.
It’s called Fast & Furious, not Slow & Thoughtful.
The endless chases, stunts and fights are as spectacular and preposterous as the occasional verbal exchanges are sentimental and childish.
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