Review of Fast X (2023) by Jluis_001 — 19 May 2023

Imagine that you are the 10th film in the same saga and that because of the way each one of its installments has been constructed, you yourself have become your biggest disadvantage. And by that I mean that due to your constant need to outdo yourself with each new movie, each of these has become more ridiculous.

If it were a car, this franchise by now would be burning its fourth engine, holding desperately to an artificial life in an extreme budget splurge that delivers for the tenth time an explosive but also excessively vacuous and repetitive film.

The story? Same old same old. Someone with a grudge against Toretto who is also a brutal criminal mastermind who has a whole arsenal of henchmen at his disposal to destroy him and his family and therefore that whole show doesn't mean ****.

It's worthless and meaningless. There's no emotion or drama to it. This is a circus and like in any circus, the clowns must dance. You have no interest in watching them do anything else.

Jason Momoa as the villain steals the entire show from Vin Diesel because Momoa understands that he has to embrace the ridicule while Diesel believes flat out that he has to play it seriously.

Fast X is sheer audiovisual nonsense. The spectacle is still present and that is merely the only compelling reason that makes this somehow still bearable for viewers who are not fans of the saga. Because otherwise the 100% genuine enjoyment only belongs to those fans.

I'm not going to say I won't see the other two remaining films, if it's indeed true that this will actually become a trilogy to conclude the whole thing, and that's mostly because that's one of my rules, but in each and every area this franchise has absolutely nothing else to offer other than the scale of its explosions continues to grow.