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This was just one long pointless prologue into Fast Five

posted 14 years ago by Meven_Stoffat
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Honestly, I think they just should have only made one FAF movie. The only reason this movie exists is for two reasons: To show why the one guy who died in the explosion in Tokyo Drift was important (yet he had only one scene)/tie up the loose ends at the end of the first, and to just bridge a gap between the series.

Not saying that Toretto isn't an important character. But honestly this movie is just so pointless. The film moves at a slow pace and there is literally one racing scene. We watch FAF movies for the action, not for some governmental conspiracy bullcrap. That, and Toretto was so whiny it's not even funny.

TIN-AAAAAHH!!! BRING ME THE AXE!!!

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[–] subric 14 years ago

Honestly, if you don't like it, then don't watch it.

[–] Traianus 12 years ago

The real point of the film, imo, was to see how successful another installment of the franchise would be with Diesel & Walker back together. If this film had bombed, that would have been it. Being that it was successful financially, it spawned the outrageously successful Fast Five, what's sure to be a successful Fast Six, and then almost certainly Fast Seven.

If this film deserves credit for nothing else, it still deserves credit for proving the staying power of the series and the viability of Diesel and Walker in these roles, especially considering that it came out after what are generally considered the weakest films in the series (2Fast2Furious and Tokyo Drift).

With all this considered, the plot of this film is basically immaterial - but then one could say that about the entire franchise.

[–] Maniac-9 12 years ago

I like the movie not as much as Fast Five but still like it. I like that the movie focuses almost entirely on Dom and Brian's characters. When Fast Five they're the 2 main characters you have so many other characters getting screen time they don't get as much screen time.