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RE: Wow! - 5/5/2011 6:52:04 PM

richnicol

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I really enjoyed this film. I think like others have said it could have had slightly more action however. A solid 3.5/5

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RE: Wow! - 6/5/2011 3:48:38 PM

fugaziuk

Posts: 168
Joined: 26/2/2007
From: Rotherham

I know the fast films always make money but anyone else surprised at the HUGE opening weekend this had?

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- 8/5/2011 12:43:47 AM

blindlemonpie

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Joined: 17/3/2008

The best comedy of the year. Spent 2 hours laughing at how dumb this is and how the popcorn munching freaks were laughing it up. For that it was worth the entrance fee. Came home and watched the original which, despite being a simpleton, is like Einstein compared to this pap.

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Mid-credit sequence - 9/5/2011 3:48:17 AM

walkef02

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Joined: 21/4/2011

I feel guilty about having enjoyed this so much. I genuinely only went to see it to kill some time, but really enjoyed. I mean, it's just an action film. Don't expect any great character development or story depth. It's just a good bank heist movie. It's fun. But the mid-credit sequence really made me angry. I felt like F&F had finally tied up all those loose ends that they kept missing since 2Fast. Then they dropped that dirty great '24' style cliffhanger on us... I felt like they should have just let the franchise die off with Rodriguez' character. But still, if the same team put the same effort into Fast6, it might still be worth the entrance fee again ;)

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RE: Mid-credit sequence - 9/5/2011 10:45:23 AM

blackduck

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Best action movie I've seen in years! This is how much fun the Expendables should have been.

They've taken all that worked in the first four movies and mushed it together.

Vin plays Dom a guy who is the best at everything except pronouncing words ending in r ( sure I remember my faddaaaa)
Paul walker is very pretty and just happy to be working
The rock is who Vin wants to be when he grows up.
The supporting cast are all likeable and very funny and the extended cast manage to dilute Vins smugness.

It's sort of a cross between Crank and Oceans Eleven.

The ending is daft, plot makes no sense but you genuinely won't care you 'll be having too much fun.

Roll on no 6, especally if it focusing on the Rock.

Oh and best Empire review in a while

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Post #: 35

Utter nonsense - 11/5/2011 12:32:46 PM

bretty

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Joined: 6/10/2005

but fun too, Honestly, two cars lugging around a massive vault like it was made of aluminium? Utter nonsense.
But a fast pace, car stunts and attractive totty helped me be a little forgiving.

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Watch Thor instead - 12/5/2011 11:04:57 PM

BatSpider

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Joined: 6/7/2010

No problems with it being dumb, but the insincerity of this series is what makes it crap. They should either make it gritty and hardcore or go the opposite way with full on parody. In-between is no good.

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Blistering - 22/5/2011 10:25:01 AM

djphilips

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Joined: 26/12/2008
From: Malta

Every action movie should live up to what Fast Five accomplishes here. The film is the definition of cool, loud, over the top and, most of all, it isn't afraid to show it.

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RE: Blistering - 11/6/2011 4:39:50 PM

theoriginalcynic

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Total garbage. The dialogue is abysmal, the acting hits a new low, seriously don't waste your money.

1 The cars they steal from the train wouldn't have any fuel. They wouldn't be able to open up the train at that speed. Paul Walker can jump
onto a metal car but not the sand.
2 Jordan Brewster is pregnant and yet she can crash land through a roof and be fine.
3 They decide to take on the big baddie in Rio instead of just leaving.
4 Where did they get the big warehouse? Nobody has any money.

And on and on... proof that society is brain dead.

This film has made 574 million, so far

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RE: Wow! - 14/6/2011 7:34:08 AM

andrewmac1

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Joined: 10/6/2011

I didn't liked this movie. I think the story was crap, the stunts used in this was unreal and the synchronization was missing.

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I can't believe my eyes...it's hard to even blink! - 15/6/2011 9:01:15 AM

batbhai

Posts: 88
Joined: 26/4/2009

Now this not a great action movie, but it is one of the best sequels and the best heist movie since Italian job. It is much better than the boring Ocean's Eleven! What's next, Fast Six? Hit the throttle, baby!

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RE: I can't believe my eyes...it's hard to even blink! - 15/6/2011 10:31:15 PM

azzman1984

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Joined: 24/1/2011
From: Coventry

Well Fast Six is coming out in 2013

My mate watched Fast Five over the weekend and the screening he watched was packed out. Even though he was not a fan of the franchise but he loved Fast Five and he's looking forward to Fast Six.

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- 30/7/2011 5:25:48 AM

tinribs27

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Joined: 30/7/2011
From: Wellington, New Zealand

There’s a scene about half an hour in to Justin Lin’s Fast Five, the latest film in the car racing Fast & Furious franchise, where federal agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) angrily throws a clipboard to the floor as his explanation of something that “makes sense”. It’s this moment that totally sums up Fast Five: a film you can enjoy only by casting logic aside and simply surrendering to the bombastic absurdity you’re witnessing. Luckily for those of us able to do this, the film is one of the best examples of big dumb action of the past decade.

This series seems to be on something of a one good/one bad streak, with the first, third, and this fifth film all being worthwhile, somewhat original examples of the big-budget summer blockbuster. Picking up directly where the fourth film (2009’s Fast & Furious) left off, no time is wasted in getting to the action, and the opening bus assault places us in familiar territory, setting up the mostly unimportant plot with a spectacular, physics-(not to mention logic) defying stunt to get pulses racing. Where the film departs from the tried and true formula of its predecessors however is in blending the heist film genre with the vehicle-based action, and the decision to shake things up was a smart one. The biggest problem with the previous film was that it just seemed kind of pointless, but here Lin uses the ‘one last job’ team heist plot as an excuse to reunite characters from every previous entry in the franchise, and indeed the film feels like it belongs more to the Ocean’s Eleven canon than Fast & Furious. The series’ celebrated ‘car porn’ is still present, yet Lin wisely opts for more variety than ever before, including more direct character conflict (fighting!), and thrilling parkour-esque foot chases across the rooftops of Rio de Janeiro.

While it is fun to see so many previous cast members returning to form the team (similarities

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Fast Five: Review - 8/8/2011 2:13:27 AM

Edward9630

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Joined: 8/8/2011
From: Ireland

Fast Five is a fantastic film. It had the best story in the franchise, some of my favourite actors from the last films are in this one and the action & stunts in this film are great. The driving sequence in this film is just fantastic and the actors did probably their best performance ever in this film. I would recommend to go see this film.

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darn good movie - 2/9/2011 6:55:44 PM

mclane1

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Joined: 7/2/2009

wow, its like watchin one of those action movies like there used to be, fun, humour, daft stunts. in a world of bourne copies i found this hugely enjoyable.
solid and well worth a watch!

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darn good movie - 2/9/2011 6:55:45 PM

mclane1

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wow, its like watchin one of those action movies like there used to be, fun, humour, daft stunts. in a world of bourne copies i found this hugely enjoyable.
solid and well worth a watch!

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Post #: 46

Cant believe I liked it - 9/9/2011 8:58:41 PM

Darkmouse

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Joined: 9/9/2011

Terrible script, poor acting, far fetched, really liked it.
fair enough, in the fast and furious world physics don't apply but it didn't do the matrix any harm. (fair enough they are in a computer generated world where they can bend the laws of physics but who says Paul walker isnt as well).
I recommend having a few beers putting it on loud and not worrying too much about whether or not it would be possible to pull 20 tons of safe out of a concrete wall with a couple of cars

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Great trashy fun - 11/9/2011 8:44:46 PM

spideed2

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Joined: 20/1/2006

But still 20 minutes too long.

Kinda like Oceans 11 meets Heat, written by Justin Bieber.

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Kicks Ocean's 11 asses! - 26/9/2011 7:28:49 AM

batbhai

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Joined: 26/4/2009

This is absolute glory, just like The Italian Job.! Not just the best in the series, but it's one of the best IMAX I have experienced!

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Fantastic - 25/10/2011 10:40:10 PM

the film man

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Again it's not perfect but if Justin Lin keeps this up then we are in for a real treat with the sixth film.

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Brutal - 14/12/2011 5:06:07 PM

Turd Ferguson

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From top to bottom, this is awful. I honestly thought the Rock would bring something to the table. I was wrong. Couldn't even finish the movie, which rarely ever happens.

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best film this year! - 7/1/2012 10:14:11 PM

jordan thomas

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Joined: 5/5/2010

thats a fact of all the new films ive seen this year this one is the most exciting and contains all the ingredients to my film expectations; great locations, beautiful women, tough guys, explosive action, great music, terrific special effects etc whats not to love! best of the lot!

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