Starting with the positives, for me the best thing about this film are the stunts. I really feel the amount of stunt work that goes into these films have become underappreciated. I really admired how much work had clearly gone into creating these stunts and even better, I could not work out how much was practical and how much was CGI but clearly a lot of it was practical.
I also enjoy the big ensemble cast that we got in this film. Obviously we've followed a lot of these cast members from the beginning and this is another thing that isn't noticed upon but I feel these films have cast members who have such great chemistry amongst each other, they all make each other better actors, better performers.
And finally this is probably the most rewatchable film of the year. It's so much fun, never slows down, never drags on and with how much escapism you get, you can put this on and easily get a good time watching it.
Onto the mixed elements now and let's get the big one out of the way, this film takes what the previous instalments had, times it all by 100, adds a load of hot sauce and that's the film you get. This will probably be the make or break moment for fans and for some, this will be too much but for others it will be what they expected. I tend to be in the latter and I do feel these films get a bit too much hate but I do get why some fans may lose interest after this instalment.
Next is John Cena's casting. Now I've never had an issue with John Cena as an actor. He's never done anything to make me dislike him but I've never been insanely impressed. I'm just in the middle and I think he does well in this film. Now I have more thoughts with his character but I don't have any issue with him in this film.
Finally the humour is very hit n miss. Some moments are very very funny, especially a sequence involving Nathalie Emmanuel but other elements for me fell very flat. There's also an odd use of metahumour in the film that I'm still a bit unsure on.
Onto the negatives now and this is gonna be fun. First big issue and this is my biggest issue, the film was marketed horribly. Please Universal, sack your marketing team and get better ones because my god this film reveals too much of the film and even reveals two major plot details that would have been good for shock value. Unfortunately because of how much that was revealed, nothing ever shocked me.
Now onto the film issues, this film shows it's running out of ideas. I don't want to go to much onto this section for spoiler reasons but I never liked the idea of Doms brother or Han coming back from the dead and this film confirmed it for me. The character arc for John Cena's characters is extremely predictable and by the end feels unearned and I just never bought Hans return.
Next is the tone, this is probably the film in the Fast franchise with the most inconsistent tone. It's all over the place. It goes from dumb fun action and comedy to melodramatic to philosophical to even at one point Sci Fi.
I wasn't a fan of Charlize Theron screentime in this film either because all her scenes felt like late reshoots edited it and considering how much I loved her character in the previous film, this was a major downgrade for me.
And finally I feel the production team ran out of budget because they do go to space and the space scenes look very fake. Not only that, it feels really gimmicky like the production team saw the space speculation and just went with it, forgetting the logics and time differences between earth and space.
However despite this sounding like a negative review, I would actually recommend this film for the fans who have followed this series from the beginning and people who just want some fun and escapism. I did enjoy this film but I just can't forget the major flaws.
⭐⭐⭐
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