By Gary

The Fast and Furious franchise has delivered up another high octane trip into automotive fantasy.

Vin Diesal returns as Dominic Toretto as his family, Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) and is targeted by the vengeful son of drug kingpin Hernan Reyes (Jason Momoa).

Has there really been 10 of these?

Well maybe even 11 if you count the Hobbs and Shaw spinoff.

The Fast and Furious franchise is a movie series that should have faded away a long, long time ago.

It started out as a fun but a bit over the top high-octane thrill ride but has descended into the realm of video games and cartoons.

With each iteration the action gets increasingly more and more unbelievable.

Everybody likes an action film with chases and escapes and fights but what we get here is something like a bad anime in real life.

Sure, they tried and tried hard to make this movie more spectacular than all the others but one can only shut off their brain for so long.

Pushing the boundaries of cinema is one thing but when you throw all sense and reality out the window you get, well this.

In the first 5 minutes of the movie, I already could tell this was going straight to the Moon with zero plan of how to actually get there.

You see Dominic’s 8-year-old son driving and drifting a muscle car around a parking lot as if he was a pro.

Everyone in Dom’s team is an expert at everything and they all seem to be super-human as well.

I am not really a car person so maybe I don’t understand some of the stuff fully. As someone who hasn’t seen many of The Fast and The Furious franchise, I can say the film explains itself well enough that you don’t need all the knowledge from the previous movies, although I’m guessing they would get more out of the film.

The cast list of this is incredible and you run out of breath going through all the A list actors in Fast X.

The film struggles to fit all these actors in and most don’t get enough screen time and feel rushed. Some of the characters you wanted to spend more time with, and you want to know where they went, maybe we will get spin-offs to explain some of their stories.

I’m not sure why Jason Momoa decided his character had to be camp, it was funny in parts but at other times it just felt out of place.

Maybe he decided with all the very butch characters it was a way for him to stand out, well he definitely does that.

Also he is not helped by the character’s dubious choice of attire

It’s too bad more effort didn’t go into the writing and S/VFX, as they put towards trying to fool their fans of the franchise.

This was too long, too slow, and too boring.

Still a decent popcorn watch if you have nothing better to do and almost 3 hours to waste.

They need to bury this franchise once and for all.

I am expecting spin-offs and more sequels, there is a post credit scene if you can stay in your seat a little longer.

My Rating: 6/10