![]() Momoa is the definition of going for it-and the Aquaman star being turned up to 100 is worth the price of admission alone.įast X is (allegedly) the penultimate installment of the series, and the first in a two-part grand finale. ![]() Here’s just a small list of things that Dante does in Fast X: he curtsies and says “enchanté” when he first meets Dom, paints the toenails of dead men, licks a hostage, and calls Dom a butthole. Having now seen the film twice, it’s still hard to believe that Momoa’s hilariously weird and insane performance was allowed in a reported $340 million blockbuster. paints the toenails of dead men, licks a hostage, and calls Dom a butthole. While Fast X is far from reaching the heights of Fast Five, or one of the other top-tier Fasts, it does have something that the previous films can’t compete with: MOMOA. There’s plenty of fun to be had in Fast X, whether it be Cipher and Letty’s brutal fight, or a never-ending pursuit of a bomb through Rome. Then, by far, the most entertaining film-within-an-overstuffed film, is the cat-and-mouse game between Dom and Dante. For some reason, The Agency gets a full-blown expansion, featuring Aimes, Little Nobody (Scott Eastwood), and Tess (Brie Larson). Han (Sung Kang), Roman (Tyrese Gibson), Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel), and Tej ( Chris “Ludacris” Bridges) are just kind of hanging out. Cipher and Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) are forced into a reluctant partnership (give us this spinoff!). There are at least five different movies going on within Fast X: reformed villain Jakob (John Cena) is now-jolly and fun-loving, and on a road trip with his nephew. “Never accept death when suffering is owed,” he constantly declares. Jumping ahead 10 years, “the devil,” as he’s described by fellow villain Cipher (Charlize Theron), Dante lures Dom and the family to Rome to begin his vengeance tour. Dante is retconned into Fast and onto that bridge in Rio, as he barely survives. With a script co-written by Lin, X opens by showing Five’s infamous safe heist through the streets of Rio de Janeiro via a new perspective: Dante Reyes (Jason Momoa), the son of Five big bad Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida). It probably isn’t the shadow you want to live in, considering Lin’s 2011 masterpiece is the consensus high point of the franchise, and one of the best action films of its time. Louis Leterrier Knows He Can't Mess Up 'Fast X'īut the Fast installment that X is most easily compared to isn’t The Fast and the Furious, but rather Fast Five.Inside the Wild Life of a 'Fast & Furious' Racer.Unfortunately, when your characters have suddenly become a mix of James Bond, Ethan Hunt, and the Incredible Hulk, the stakes have been raised to such a heightened level that a gritty, old-school race feels out of place. He promised a return to the early days of the franchise, and, specifically, street racing. Fast X director Louis Leterrier, who took over Fast when veteran Justin Lin suddenly departed the project, is a full-fledged member of the Fast fan cult. ![]() Fast-forward two decades, and Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and company have flown cars (multiple times), jumped buildings, raced a submarine, and soared into space. Much has been made of how far Fast has strayed from the original film, 2001’s The Fast and the Furious, in which a couple of amateur street racers stole DVD players-and the climactic scene was a quarter-mile race in Los Angeles. While this might be seen as an olive branch to the uninitiated, Fast X is best viewed as a ride for just the existing family who have already formed their own very big Fast cult-and that’s OK. It’s like a cult with cars.” That line from Alan Ritchson’s extremely-tan Aimes comes during the character’s Fast X introduction, a scene that essentially acts as a recap of the Fast & Furious franchise. ![]()
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