FAST FIVE
4 out of 5 stars

VROOM, VROOM, baby… ;)

vin diesel and his crew are back for the…5th time, pulling off heists, racing in their tricked out vehicles, making out with hot chicks, and did i mention that their WHOLE crew is back?! i mean, they brought back everyone from the previous F&F movies including luda, tyrese, the hot israeli chick from 4, AND my fave…HAN! (the token asian dude from tokyo drift!) :P

so, the movie picks up where they left off with F&F 4… brian o’conner (a slim paul walker- still a cutie!) and dominic toretto’s sister mia (a very tan jordana brewster) ride in their tricked out vehicles to free dominic (vin diesel- he’s gotten bigger!) on his way to prison. the three flee down south to rio de janiero, where brian and mia seek out vince, dom’s partner-in-crime from F&F 1, where he’s been living to lay low from u.s. authorities. vince sets up a job, where they’ll need to figure out a way to steal some highend vehicles seized by the DEA on a high-speed train. they steal the cars using this tricked out dune buggy that attaches itself to the train, but things go wrong when 2 guys on this crew decide to get tough with brian and dom. 3 DEA agents are killed in the shootout/craziness, so the agency retaliates by sending their finest agent AKA luke hobbs…it’s the ROCK! (govt name: dwayne johnson) once the dust settles, dom and his crew figure out that there’s a computer chip in one of the stolen cars that gives the locations of the cash houses of “investor” hernan reyes, who apparently runs rio with his blood $. dom decides to steal that $, thus the heist is on! ;)

i like the fact that they’re in south america this time, and it looks like they beat the ppl producing the brazillian job to the punch. not as clever of a heist, but still… it’s all about the cars, muscular men, hot chicks, and more rappers in one movie than in a single music video. :P (reggaeton rappers don omar and tego calderon are in this!) this one wasn’t as good as the original, but still the same at the very core. kind of a continuation of F&F 4, and you know ppl are already excited about F&F 6, which may star another car movie star, jason statham. maybe an english heist for the next one? i think a lot of F&F and transporter fans minds will be blown if that really happens… ;)