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Fast Five

Written by Jonathan Jacobs

Fast Five is a heart-pounding action thriller. Not only is it the best film the franchise has put forward in its ten year history, it is also all-inclusive. All loose ends are tied, and every hallmark character is included to satisfy fans of all five films. Even Han has managed to be resurrected as he has apparently not yet gone to Tokyo to drift into the everafter. Of course, it never hurts to add some muscle and grit a la Dwayne THE ROCK Johnson. The Rock is the perfect foil for Vin Diesel as they share a similar physique and toughness. It is like Batman versus Superman, or Pacquiao versus Mayweather, or Rocky versus Apollo Creed. Since Fast Five is 130 minutes long, and is crammed with a hundred million dollars of stunts and explosions, I will spare you the recapitulation and simply tell you why this is the must watch film of the 2011 calendar year to date.

The band is back together and they are all smoking hot. Dominic Toretto (Diesel), Bryan O'Conner (Paul Walker), Mia (Jordana Brewster), Roman (Tyrese Gibson), Tej (Ludacris), Vince (Matt Schulze), and the last seen drifting Han (Sung Kang) reunite in Brazil to pull off a 100 million dollar caper. Unfortunately there are three competing entities dead-set against their success. The first is the hundred million dollar Brazilian druglord himself, Reyes (Juaquim de Almeida). Reyes is a sleazy character that controls the police, the banks, the women, and the bodyguards in his city, a dilapidated swamp at that. The scenery in Fast Five gives new meaning to the description of "a third world country". Reyes is indiscriminate in his targets and this angers all parties involved, most of all Toretto and the gang.

Agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) has joined the fray in search of Toretto and O'Conner on account of their hijacking operation. When the film opened they pilfered DEA cars from a high speed train in dramatic fashion. Hobbs is tough as nails and is ruthless in his approach to capturing or killing vigilantes. His targets are on the run and are plotting the caper of the century. In addition to his international team, Hobbs also recruits a local police officer that has been widowed on account of local corruption, Officer Elena (Elsa Pataky). She is seemingly incorruptible and thus provides invaluable insight for Hobbs in his mission.

Once the plot crystallizes and the major players are banded together, Fast Five turns momentarily into Oceans Eleven (not 12 or 13 since those two films suck donkey genitalia). Knowing the characters and their personalities makes Fast Five a really cool film. Though their dialogue may be pedestrian at times, it is still lovable and comical all the same. As a team everyone accepts a role that will ultimately lead to the theft of 100 million of Reyes' money from an impenetrable safe located where else but the police station's evidence room.

My favorite parts of the film are Walker and Diesel's humorous chiding, and the familiarity the characters have with one another and all of their unique quirks. The actors are flat out cool as ice and they have brought their A game for this megapicture. I also adored the fight scene between The Rock and Diesel. They literally tore the roof off. Throw in my boy Han from Tokyo Drift and we have ourselves a complete and worthy ending to what has been a wild ride, Fast Five. The only grumble I have is the mass destruction of Brazil. The plot is fiction and we already have accepted that, but hundreds of people dead, billions in property damages, bridges demolished, all for the benefit of 10 people at the expense of millions? Now that is harder to swallow than a pint of Guinness when it's not even St. Patrick's Day. Fast Five is the genuine article, a new-age, fast-paced, enjoyable action movie that never let's its foot off the gas, and for that matter why should it?