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When an unstoppable bald force meets an immovable bald object, the result is Fast Five (Universal), the fifth installment in the Fast and the Furious series, which pits burly car thief Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) against even burlier Diplomatic Security Service agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) in the favelas of Rio. < /span>

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Fast Five movie cast and crew

Directed by

Justin Lin


Vin Diesel  

Paul Walker

Jordana Brewster

Tyrese Gibson

Ludacris

Matt Schulze

Sung Kang

Gal Gadot

Tego Calderon

Don Omar

Fast Five movie overview

When an unstoppable bald force meets an immovable bald object, the result is Fast Five (Universal), the fifth installment in the Fast and the Furious series, which pits burly car thief Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) against even burlier Diplomatic Security Service agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) in the favelas of Rio. Back for more drag racing, prison-bus-jacking, and other automotive mayhem are nearly all the regulars of the Fast franchise: Jordana Brewster as Dominic's lissome sister Mia, Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner, the FBI-agent-turned-fugitive who loves her, and a lineup of trash-talking, racially diverse speed demons that includes Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Sung Kang, Tego Calderon, Don Omar, and Gail Gadot.

All these old pals reunite in a grungy garage in Rio for—no, seriously, Vin Diesel says this line—"one last job," a deliriously overambitious heist in which they propose to steal all the cash stowed around the city in safe houses by a Brazilian gangster (Joaquim de Almeida) who has the entire carioca police force in his pocket. How will they do it? The scheme involves train robbery, stolen police cars, bombs placed in toilet stalls, and a chase through the streets of Rio dragging an enormous bank vault on a chain, but that's not important right now. What matters is that the Fast gang is a family—one that's about to expand, now that Mia is pregnant with O'Conner's child. This theme is one Fast Five returns to again and again—Who's in the family? Who's out? Once you get kicked out of the family, is there any way back in again?

The movie's insistence that its motley crew of sensation-seeking gearheads is bound by a shared set of deeper values may account for Fast Five's incongruous sweetness. Yes, most of this film's running time consists of muscle-bound men fistfighting and leaping off corrugated tin rooftops, but it still feels like a movie about a group of people who know and love one another (and whom the audience, at least at the rowdy public screening I attended, knows and loves as well.) Diesel's Dom Toretto is a gruff but affectionate father to his loyal pack of renegades, providing them with barbecue, protection, and a rough moral code to live by. With his authoritative basso voice and sad-eyed, bearlike demeanor, Diesel recalls the young Sylvester Stallone, at once fearsome alpha male and loveable lug. Dwayne Johnson, as Dom's nemesis on the police force, both looks and talks like a child's movable action figure, lending the men's numerous mano-a-mano encounters a goofy Godzilla vs. King Kong quality.

Justin Lin, who's now directed three movies in the Fast series, knows how to choreograph and edit an action sequence so that it's more than an onslaught of chopped-up images and grating noise. One train chase early on is particularly exhilarating in its gleeful defiance of both plot logic and physics. Fast Five is unapologetically excited about things that go vroom-vroom, as aptly spoofed in this Onion interview with the film's purported 5-year-old screenwriter ("I want the cars to drive fast and then they explode!"). If you can overlook the collateral casualty count racked up in the wildly excessive car-chase sequences, that spirit of boyish enthusiasm can be infectious. As the summer of 2011 approaches with the speed of a souped-up Dodge Charger, I'm going to take my action-movie blessings where I can find them.

Fast Five movie review

They've been fast. They've been furious. Hell, they've even Tokyo drifted. But can the dynamic duo of
 Vin Diesel and Paul Walker keep the high-speed action going with Fast Five -- the fifth installment in the popular street racing franchise? In a nutshell: yes.

When last we saw these speedsters, FBI agent Brian O'Conner (Walker) walked away from the badge in order to free Dom Toretto (Diesel) from a life in prison. His daring rescue mission involved his girlfriend and Dom's sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster), a spectacular bus crash, and -- of course -- a fleet of souped-up roadsters. Since that time, the trio has blown across the globe, eluding the authorities at every turn. But when they're been backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, circumstances force them to pull the proverbial "one last job" in order to buy back their freedom.

This, of course, means assembling an elite team of drivers… a team that consists of our favorite characters from the previous Fast films. That includes Matt Schulze as Vince (from The Fast and the Furious), Tyrese Gibson as Roman (from 2 Fast 2 Furious), Ludacris as Tej (also from 2 Fast 2 Furious), Sung Kang as Han (from Tokyo Drift), Tego Calderon as Leo and Don Omar as Santos (from Fast & Furious), and Gal Gadot as Gisele (also from Fast & Furious). As this car circuit dream team puts its plan in motion, they know that their only shot of getting out for good means confronting the corrupt businessman who wants the group dead. But he's not the only one on their tail.

Hard-nosed federal agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) never misses his target. When he's assigned to track down Dom and Brian, he and his strike team launch an all-out assault to capture them. But as his men tear through Brazil, Hobbs learns he can't separate the good guys from the bad, relying only on his instincts to corner his prey before someone else runs them down first.

This nitrous-infused setup aside, we have to be honest with you: Fast Five isn't rocket science... nor should it be. Spoon-fed dialogue, slowmo action, hot cars and hotter babes is all that fans have come to expect from the series. Definitely not a disappointment in that arena, Fast Five is an incredibly fun ride that shrewdly takes the proceedings in a new direction to prevent the tried and true formula from getting too repetitive (this is the fifth film, after all -- just how much street racing can one franchise dish out?). As such, the movie switches gears about halfway in and becomes a caper pic -- a sort of Ocean's Eleven for the fast car demographic.

Yes, Fast Five has its share of weak and wooden performances (I'm looking at you, Walker!). But the crazy car action is topnotch, highlighted by two sequences in particular: a train robbery that sees Dom and Brian take a 1966 Corvette Grand Sport off a cliff; and an Act III race through the streets of Rio that finds Dom and Brian (each in separate cars) dragging a giant bank vault behind them. Havoc and mayhem ensue. Not to be outdone, the mano-a-mano brawl between The Rock and Diesel is this generation's Stallone vs. Schwarzenegger… only we actually get to see the fight realized up on the big screen.