Until 'Hobbs & Shaw,' I’d never watched a 'Fast & Furious' movie. Of course, I now understand why this franchise won’t die. It's the best kind of ridiculousness.
“It is so over-the-top that it establishes a new top. ... Its exaggerations—like when The Rock lifts an insufferable bureaucrat against a wall by ninety degrees—are as much a part of its deliberate technique as the oversized gestures of kabuki or opera. ... It’s so clever, so perfectly executed, emotionally sincere, self-aware and gloriously cinematic that I think it’s made me happier, and more entertained, than any other movie I’ve seen this year.
Sure, there is a deep love for cars here—reverent shots of dashboards, sleek curves and pedals are spliced into every chase. Stratham gets most of the best driving sequences, but Johnson gets to smash things in a truck built with a ramming cage. Characters hang onto moving vehicles by the tips of fingers or slide out onto hoods as they go hurtling through buildings and down from rooftops. Cars get chained to a helicopter and swerve between tires of semi trucks.
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