Review: 'F9: The Fast Saga' is the biggest, baddest popcorn movie of the summer Beállítások

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Review: 'F9: The Fast Saga' is the biggest, baddest popcorn movie of the summer



For those who think that the blockbuster “Fast and Furious” franchise is stupid beyond saving, it’s clear you won’t be heading to theaters to see chapter 9 when it opens this week.

For the rest of us who know that absurdity is the fun, “F9: The Fast Saga” delivers as the biggest, baddest, popcorn movie of the summer. Expect box-office grosses to rocket into orbit, where insanely enough the car-crazy “F9” actually finds itself this time. Hold that thought.

First, a warning: You can’t stay home and catch “F9” on HBO Max. Streaming won’t happen for at least a few months. Buying a ticket will set you up for a heart-racing jolt to the system that will obliterate your brain cells (it helps) as you strap in for the visceral ride.

And what a ride. You’ll feel dazed, jacked-up and maybe a little sick as if you just staggered off the world fastest roller coaster —the Formula Rossa in the United Arab Emirates. Isn’t that the point of hot-weather escapism meant for pent-up audiences finally out of lockdown?

It’s sure not the plot. Since “F&F” began back in 2001, the story has coalesced around Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his gearhead family as they careen from illegal street races to James Bondish spying and now deep space. That’s where two of Dom’s crew—Roman (Tyrese Gibson) and Tej (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges)— hitch their red Pontiac Fiero to a space shuttle. Sweet. slot wallet

Family is the one constant in the nonstop “F&F” chaos. And the movies play it for all the tears they can jerk. Dom lives with Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) and their son Little Brian, named after Dom’s ex-cop bestie Brian O’Connor, played by Paul Walker who died in car crash in 2013 but lives on unseen as the husband of Dom’s sister Mia (Jordana Brewster).

Got that? No worries. What matters is that the WWE’s John Cena shows up as Jakob Toretto, the brother we never knew Dom had. That gives Cena and Diesel—a graduate of the concrete-block school of acting—a chance to lock horns as their backstory unravels in flashbacks.