Sunday 27 June 2021

F9: The Fast Saga

 This enjoys being a late period Fast and Furious movie, meaning there's a lot of ridiculous backstory and retcons, including as many elements of the previous movies as possible (this is a series that lets nothing go - there's plot points from a largely disconnected movie 6 films ago, as well as referencing characters whose actors have died but whose character hasn't), there's self-reflective dialogue as Roman and Teej, the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of the series, debate whether the fact they haven't died from the previous films nonsense means they're now effectively immortal, there's an attempt to set up the Fast and Furious universe's equivalent of Latveria, there's a nonsensical Cardi B cameo, and two characters go to space. It's a little too long and this is the third nonsensical technical mcguffin in a row, but it's playing the formula at full throttle and is suitably enjoyable with all that.

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