Watched the LONG list of Fast and Furious movies which, to be honest, I know nothing about nor care about cars — however the action was amusing.
The strong points in the movie are the action scenes with the dialogue ranging from predictable to predictably insipid.
One aspect that surprised me was the color blindness and (later) better music and fewer misogynistic tendencies.
Of all of them if you want to watch one I suggest Fast Five.
Fast Five is more like a caper. It is all silly and you have to suspend your disbelief with huge cables (physics doesn’t exist in these movies!) but if you go into them as being silly you ought to have a good time.
One thing surprised me was how much the stories depended on the concept of family, even if the family were people unrelated. It wasn’t till Fast X that the scripts actually were decent.
Fast X is annoying because its half a movie — we won’t see what happens until Fast 11.
Another aspect about these films is how much bloodless death there is. Vehicles are destroyed with no bloodshed. It is a young person playing where vehicles are proxies for bodies.
Our heroes may get bloodied as well as the bad guys, but the gore many movies seem to relish are absent. The only time I recall blood was someone dropped onto the blades of a submarine and the water gun splurt painting a wall. But it was brief.
As a whole I wouldn’t watch all of them again — except Fast Five (partner wants to watch it and I think they would be entertained).
A surprise was Gal Gadot in the movies as well as Helen Mirren (whose cockney accent is awesome!) and Jason Stratham (who seems to be playing his Transporter character). In Fast X, Jason Momoa is the big bad and he predictably eats the scenery. Also the legendary Rita Moreno (who I crushed on as a child).
It’s an odd series and I can see why it has a fan base.