{"id":16121,"date":"2015-08-17T00:10:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T04:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=16121"},"modified":"2015-08-16T05:34:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T09:34:56","slug":"fast-furious-6-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/fast-furious-6-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast & Furious 6 (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unlike \u201cThe Expendables,\u201d which purports to bring all stars together and pit them against perilous circumstances, \u201cFast and the Furious\u201d is the film accomplishing the concept. It\u2019s rid itself of the pretenses of being a franchise, and has embraced the fact that each movie is just a two hour episode of an extended series, and has brought together all of the best stars from the previous movies of the \u201cFast and the Furious\u201d movies. It even has its own opening credits. And what\u2019s more is that the stakes are raised more and more with each movie right down to the potential for a child\u2019s life being risked.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFast & Furious 6\u201d sees the group shortly after \u201cFast Five\u201d where Dominic and Brian greet the entrance of Brian\u2019s new baby. The group has split up and are now settling in to their serene domestic roles, until Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) re-enters Dom and Brian\u2019s life, making them aware that Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) is alive, and due to painfully convenient circumstances, is working for a new group of thieves with no recollection of who Dom and his friends are. This makes Letty a brand new foe to reckon with. Dom and Brian begrudgingly take on the task of stopping a new team of thieves with the hopes of thwarting their crimes with Hobbs, all while hoping to help Letty regain her memory and bring her back over to their side. \u201cFurious 6\u201d really hands us a lot of plot in over two hours and its up to the task of unfolding this unique plot of a band of thieves fighting a new skilled band of thieves.<\/p>\n

All the while it engages us in the same level of brilliant chase sequences and fist fights that we\u2019ve seen before. \u201cFurious 6\u201d doesn\u2019t pretend to be anything other than a fantastic cartoon for car lovers, and they\u2019ve relinquished all pretense of these movies being about races by now. Now it\u2019s just a series of heists concocted by a bunch of really likable people that even manage to win over the most militant law enforcers. I enjoyed \u201cFurious 6\u201d for Lin\u2019s tight direction and the great editing that really sucked me in to the chases and excellent fist fights. There are some really great fight scenes including Gina Carano and Michelle Rodriguez, Han and Tyreese battling Joe Taslim, and the final showdown on the jet where all members of the team engage in some brawl. Lin knows who to use in which capacity and adds to the action dynamics wonderfully.<\/p>\n

Luke Evans is well cast as the film\u2019s resident foe, who works as a sort of Bizarro Brian. He\u2019s crafty and deadly and doesn\u2019t mind implementing Letty to take down her ex-teammates. Gina Carano is also a great addition to the series canon, working as Hobbs\u2019 sidekick who gets to perform her own unique stunts and even steals a scene here and there. That said, \u201cFurious 6\u201d thrives on cheese that can be much too unbearable in certain instances. The constant talk about \u201cFamily\u201d and \u201cbonding\u201d becomes overbearing, not to mention the movie tries to force the comic banter of Tyreese and Ludacris on audiences, which often comes off as flat and really forgettable. In either case, while \u201cFurious 6\u201d isn\u2019t a masterpiece, it\u2019s a really damn good follow up to a movie series that keeps coming up with new ideas, and brand new action sequences to keep us watching and coming back for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unlike \u201cThe Expendables,\u201d which purports to bring all stars together and pit them against perilous circumstances, \u201cFast and the Furious\u201d is the film accomplishing the concept. It\u2019s rid itself of the pretenses of being a franchise, and has embraced the fact that each movie is just a two hour episode of an extended series, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[58,71,177,240,338,391,457,631,703,814,922,1087],"class_list":["post-16121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-packed-april","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-cars","tag-crime","tag-f","tag-gangster","tag-heist","tag-martial-arts","tag-mystery","tag-racing","tag-sequel","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16123,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16121\/revisions\/16123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}