Fast 6 - 275 million gross worldwide (Box office Record)
FAST AND FURIOUS SIX IN THEATHERS MAY 24TH
#Fast6 collected $275,528,000 worldwide ($98,528,000 in US and $177,000,000 international).
OFFICIAL EXTENDED TRAILER :
Rotten Tomatoes
73% on Rotten Tomatoes with 113 reviews. Still fresh.
REVIEWS
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London’s burning rubber
“Remember the second you go through those doors,” says Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto. “Everything changes.” Now that’s wishful thinking. The Fast And The Furious films have never strayed too far from the formula, just doing enough tinkering under the hood to keep the franchise purring.
This time the gang decamp to London after Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) – the dogged DSS agent who pursued them through Rio last time out – comes asking for help.
Wisely, he wants to use the street-smarts of Dom, Brian (Paul Walker) and the rest for a their crew for a particularly dangerous mission. The target? A gang of pro hijackers led by ex-Special Ops soldier Owen Shaw (Luke Evans, excellent). The reward? Full pardons for Dom and his crew. The bait? That Dom’s ex Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) – thought dead after a car accident in the fourth film – is alive and working with Shaw.
An early encounter shows exactly what they’re up against, as Shaw causes major Canary Wharf carnage, driving a seriously pimped Formula 1-style car that can flip oncoming vehicles up in the air like pancakes. Think that’s cool? As Shaw consistently stays one step ahead, director Justin Lin moves through the gears with a series of jaw-to-floor set pieces that escalate in sheer outrageousness. You want tanks? You want airplanes? We got ’em.
With Hobbs accompanied by hot new sidekick Riley (Haywire’s Gina Carano), such is the ever-swelling cast list, you’d think they’d need to ditch the Ford Mustangs for People Carriers. More than ever writer Chris Morgan (who’s been onboard since 2006’s Tokyo Drift) has his work cut out for him. But between Han (Sung Kang) and Gisele’s (Gal Gadot) tender flirtations and playboy Roman’s (Tyrese Gibson) banter with Tej (Ludacris), most get their moment.
While some neat gags add some colour to the action (on Tej’s phone, Hobbs is listed as ‘Samoan Thor’), it’s the soapier elements of Morgan’s script that drag it down. Jordana Brewster’s Mia gets short-changed (again), left literally holding the baby. Rodriguez’s return, explained away with a rather groan-worthy reason, isn’t quite as emotional or impactful as it should be. And Carano, good though she is, is left to do her talking with her fists.
Matching this, Lin’s tourist-eye view of London (Piccadilly Circus, Battersea Power Station, the Eye) has an almost Austin Powers feel to it – not least with the uppity Brit car salesman Tej and Hobbs encounter and a pre-race cry of “This is London, baby!” But, gripes aside, F&F6 delivers where it matters: exhilarating, non-stop, jump-out-your-seat action.
Despite the return of Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in 2009, the Fast & Furious franchise seemed dead in the driveway until the nitro injection of 2011’s Fast 5 retooled the concept as a heist thriller and dropped The Rock on proceedings. The result was an absurd glory, meaning that Furious 6, to all intents and purposes, has to be Fast 5: Pt. 2. Expectations are high, and since we know you like your dessert first, it’s a joy to confirm that it boasts all the jaw-dropping vehicular lunacy you might require, plus a couple of seriously bruising fist fights (an all-female wrestle-off in the London Underground, and six characters having three separate punch-ups in an enclosed space on a plane). Michelle Rodriguez is back, and Gina Carano has arrived.
But there are plenty of goddamn veggies. Gone is Fast 5’s element of surprise, much of which was down to The Rock’s lawman Luke Hobbs. Part of the problem this time is that he isn’t an antagonist. With Hobbs and Diesel’s Toretto fighting side-by-side, that previous frisson of forbidden bromance is diluted. It may only be a temporary détente, but for now the spark is missing.
That leaves a gaping absence of antagonism. Last time our heroes were up against Johnson and Joaquim de Almeida. With Rodriguez’s not-dead-after-all Letty rendered more victim than villain by dint of amnesia (yes, really), it’s down to Luke Evans to get his bastard on as Owen Shaw, but he’s never able to make much of an impression. Our gang of good guys is now so massive, having collected characters from every sequel, that there’s no room for developing the villains. A character at one point observes that Shaw’s guys are the evil twins of Team Toretto, but we’re given barely any sense of this whatsoever.
Which is unfortunate, given the revelation that Shaw has apparently been a shadowy Blofeld for some time. Reflecting the convoluted and unwieldy nature of this franchise, Furious 6 is actually a direct sequel to Fast & Furious (4), rendering Fast 5 a kind of interim holiday in the sun. The plot is perfunctory but busy: Shaw needs to collect thingummys so that he can do stuff; Toretto and Hobbs need to stop him getting the one-more-McGuffin he needs for his evil LEGO set; Walker gets a side-quest where he goes to jail in the States for a day so he can talk to Part 4’s Arturo Braga (John Ortiz, now revealed to have been a Shaw henchman), and Agent Stasiak (Shea Whigham); the rest of the action takes the opposing forces to London and Spain.
London, crushingly, is another disappointment. It’s cool to see familiar locations torn up, but the streets feel too cramped to support F&F action, and Furious 6 makes neither Ronin-like use of the cramped space nor Welcome To The Punch-style capital from London’s gleaming new bits. An organised street-racing scene feels tacked on for the sake of acknowledging the franchise’s roots, and it’s always dark. It’s a relief when the film shifts up to a spacious, sunny Spanish freeway that can support the destructive tank, truck and muscle car madness. The astonishing-but-unremarked collateral death toll is a small price to pay. It arrives late, but the carmageddon still delivers.
Verdict
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...
'Fast & Furious 6' review: "A thrilling ride that tops Fast Five"
The sixth film in a franchise built ostensibly on tough guys driving fast cars has no right to be this exhilarating. A winning combination of audacious set pieces, outrageous stunts, brawny banter and plot twists, Fast & Furious 6 unleashes more than just an incongruous ampersand, blowing its predecessors out of the water on every count.
Those who sat through the end credits of Fast Five will already know the setup – Michelle Rodriguez's character Letty is alive and scowling despite her apparent demise in the fourth movie. This propels Dwayne Johnson's wisecracking Security Service agent Luke Hobbs to entice former adversaries Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), Brian (Paul Walker) and his crew to head to London in order to tackle a nefarious gang of criminals spearheaded by Luke Evans's dastardly villain Owen Shaw, who Letty now works for.
We are consequently treated to scenes of Vin Diesel emoting a great deal. Plenty of forlorn gazing out of windows ensues as Dom ruminates over the resurrection of his former squeeze Letty and the implications on his current ladyfriend. More importantly, loads of automobile destruction and thrilling chase sequences also follow.
Although the screen is peppered with action heroes waddling around with tensed muscles and clenched jaws, the star of Fast & Furious 6 is undoubtedly director Justin Lin. His helming of the set pieces is exquisite, executing every money shot to perfection such as a stunning moment in which a tank unexpectedly bursts out from inside a large truck. It's the vehicular equivalent of the John Hurt chestburster scene in Alien, albeit with twisted metal spewing forth instead of innards.
The action sequences become progressively grander in scale, culminating in a daring – if overlong – finale involving a Russian airplane, a motorway and mid-air showdown between Dom's team and Shaw's mob of mercenaries. It's a daring climax, but fits perfectly with a winning tone that merges self-consciously overblown spectacle with a warm sense of teamwork, bonding and familial spirit.
The London locations form a good contrast to the sun-drenched surroundings of the previous movie, with the nighttime chase sequences around the capital making excellent use of the environment. They do miss a trick by not having Vin Diesel hop onto a 'Boris bike' at some stage. Just imagine that shiny bonce frantically peddling round Trafalgar Square at 15mph in pursuit of the bad guys. Cinematic magic that sadly wasn't to be.
Luke Evans's criminal mastermind Owen Shaw is a surprisingly refreshing foe – and not only because it demonstrates that Hollywood is capable of looking beyond North Korea for its antagonists at the moment. Shaw is more than a generic cackling baddie, displaying much guile, stealth and a healthy dose of respect for his opponents. Plus he's in possession of a 'Flip Car', which is best described as a Batmobile constructed from Meccano. It can flip cars over like burgers, using a ramp at the front, and is a visceral joy to behold.
Female leads Michelle Rodriguez and Gina Carano fortunately don't drown in a sea of testosterone, with both matching their male counterparts for sheer guts and never succumbing to the eye candy fodder that's so rife in the genre. One particular fight sequence between the pair, involving Carano's government agent attempting to capture Letty on the London Underground, is extremely fierce and brutal. It's quite rare to see such rage on public transport that's not induced by the endless procession of delays, strikes and signal failures.
A few mishaps occur along the way, including an awkward attempted comic interlude with a stereotyped posh English auctioneer and too many stale and formulaic snippets of dialog - like the mandatory "you've got to be kidding me"-style reactions. Yet the camaraderie between the cast, especially the metaphorical c**k-jousting between Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel, still retains its fun appeal.
As an exponent of escapism, Fast & Furious 6 does a terrific job of transporting your mind into a thrilling world of high speed chases and 'cat and mouse' gameplaying shenanigans between two opposing forces. It's easy to lambast such movies from the genre for cardboard characters or predictable plotting, but Justin Lin's movie is such a wildly enjoyable ride and so slickly assembled that it manages to clinically swipe aside its limitations like Dwayne Johnson slapping down a bad guy. Just don't scarper once the end credits roll, as there's a shock reveal that establishes a new adversary for the next installment.
4 out of 5 stars
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Review: 'Fast & Furious 6,' adrenaline rush
If "Fast & Furious 6" were any dumber, the script would have been written in crayon.
But no one goes to any installment in this car-chase, skull-bashing slam-o-rama expecting education, enlightenment or, heck, even a story that makes any kind of sense. You go for cool cars, stupid stunts (as in, you'd be stupid to try these at home), bone-crushing brawls that barely leave a mark and -- in the case of this sixth film -- two, count 'em, two, vicious girlfights. If all of these things sound appealing, then "Fast & Furious 6" delivers handsomely. In fact, in terms of sheer action adrenaline, it may be the best film of the franchise.
At the start of "6," our heroes are chilling out from their last crime-busting adventure in Rio covered in episode five. Brian (Paul Walker) is a new dad. Dominic (Vin Diesel) is living in sun-drenched, tropical splendor with his girlfriend. Han (Sung Kang) and Gisele (Gal Gadot) are planning their life together. Roman (Tyrese Gibson) is winging his way to Macao on a private jet full of young beauties. And Tej (Chris Bridges, aka Ludacris) just seems mostly concerned about saving his money.
But wall o' man federal agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) drops a bomb of bad news on them. He tells Dominic that he needs to get the gang back together to nab a group of high-tech street-racing toughs who are using their nefarious skills to stage daring robberies and raids. Working under the direction of the
evil Shaw (Luke Evans), a former top British soldier who has gone over to the dark side, they're after a top-secret government microchip.
To add romantic insult to criminal injury, Shaw has Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), a former member of Dominic's dream team and his former love interest who we thought died in a previous "F&F" movie, on his side. Say what?
So it's off to London to put a stop to Shaw's madness -- and turn the city's narrow, twisting streets into a death-dealing racetrack. Director Justin Lin and screenwriters Chris Morgan and Gary Scott Thompson, all veterans of the "F&F" franchise, wisely keep dialogue and plot to a bare enough minimum to qualify as a movie and not a stunt reel.
The focus is on the action, and they turn out some head-snapping sequences: a chase along a highway with an Army tank squashing cars like ants, pummeling fights between Letty and female agent Riley (Gina Carano), and a jaw-dropping confrontation between Han, Roman and one of Shaw's nimble minions (the awesome Indonesian action star and judo champ Joe Taslim, who was in "The Raid: Redemption," one of the best martial-arts movies of the past decade). Then there's the finale involving a plane, a fleet load of fast cars and what has to be the world's longest runway.
It's almost enough to distract from the fact that hardly anyone ever breaks a sweat, let alone bones, after being involved in multiple car wrecks, falls from great heights onto speeding metal and glass, and fights too numerous to mention.
OK, so "F&F 6" is a little light on the laws of physics and biology as well as intellectual stimulation. But that's all right. Actually, the script may have been written in crayon after all, but at least they used the big 64 box.
If Paul Walker is not in 6 or 7 there's no point of doing them. 3 was a disaster without him or Vin.
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But even though I love Paul and really want him to be in the movies. I think they could still be great as long as Vin is there. And also Michelle Rodriguez , Jordana Brewster , Tyrese Gibson...
If they are there the movies could do and be great. If they're not...
The dreamcast would be the cast of Fast Five plus Michelle Rodriguez. So that's Vin Diesel , Paul Walker , Jordana Brewster , Tyrese Gibson , Ludacris , Michelle Rodriguez , ...
Yes I love it too much.... Vin Diesel, Tyrese Gibson & Paul Walker are the best.... 1, 2, 4, 5 was the best for me... 3 was good too but it would be much better with Paul Walker and more Vin Diesel scences...
But even though I love Paul and really want him to be in the movies. I think they could still be great as long as Vin is there. And also Michelle Rodriguez , Jordana Brewster , Tyrese Gibson...
If they are there the movies could do and be great. If they're not...
The dreamcast would be the cast of Fast Five plus Michelle Rodriguez. So that's Vin Diesel , Paul Walker , Jordana Brewster , Tyrese Gibson , Ludacris , Michelle Rodriguez , ...
Yeah I agree, I mean they could still do really well with vin, Michelle, jordana, and tyreese but I'm sure the producers and the cast know Paul adds on to the success that much more. So let's hope Paul can do 6 and 7!!!
Plus Vin Diesel, Paul Walker AND Tyrese Gibson???
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