Fast & Furious 5 [REVIEW]

But I don't, and so on Friday night, looking for escapist film, my husband and I rented Fast & Furious 5 from iTunes.

Back in 2001, when Fast & Furious came out, I was living in New York City. My attached-at-the-hip best friend and I went to see this with her super cool boyfriend and his friends, whose opinions we rated very highly. (For example, they were rockers who talked about how Christina could out-sing Britney, and this somehow gave them credibility with us.) Anyway, they touted this as quality silliness, and they were right. It was definitely silly.

Eleven years and three unseen films later, it wasn't hard to catch up. Paul Walker's character is in a relationship with Vin Diesel's character's sister (played by Jordana Brewster), and they're using fast cars to break Vin Diesel out of prison. They all escape, and head to Rio to hide out.

Fast Five features Dwayne Johnson, better known as WWF wrestler, The Rock, who is great as the American FBI hard-ass sent to Rio to track down our criminals. ("Above all else, we don't ever, ever let them get in the cars." Awesome!)

Of course he doesn't get them, and of course they get involved in some criminal activity that yields them lots of cash, and of course they get away unscathed. And, well, a few other things happen that I can't really remember. Actually, a lot of things happen. I just checked the ending on The Movie Spoiler site and got confused. Suffice to say they end up in some new exotic location with really expensive cars.

The last moment of the film delivers a cliff-hanger that involves a character from the second film (Michelle Rodriguez, former love interest of Diesel's character, who supposedly died in a previous film), so we can be sure there will be a Furiously Fast Six.

I'll be selecting a great vintage to celebrate.

Fast F& Furious 5 is now available on DVD.

Madame B

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