Fast & Furious 6 (12A) 130 mins **
2011’s
Rio-set Fast Five – one of the
strongest fifth entries in any series, for all that’s worth – pushed a
once-idling franchise into something close to top gear. The follow-up dumps
soap in the gas tank, alas, prioritising non-characters and awful dialogue over
any action. Semi-sentient test dummy Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and ever-boring
boy racer Brian (Paul Walker) are reunited after The Rock’s walking FBI
zeppelin Hobbs brings news: Toretto’s sweetheart Letty (Michelle Rodriguez,
roadkill in Fast Four) is back up and
running with a gang wreaking havoc with bulletproof kit-cars on the streets of
London.
Contain
your excitement: its Londoners are monodimensional toffeenoses or thicknecks,
and while it’s good to have the no-nonsense Rodriguez back in play, she’s soon
crowded out by the dreary ex-models and wisecracking dipsticks this series has
accumulated. Director Justin Lin, at the wheel since Fast Three, delivers okayish fights and chases – the lovers take a
high-speed reunion waltz around a traffic-free Piccadilly Circus – but the
remaining ninety minutes couldn’t be any more middle-of-the-road if the Rita
Ora cameo had gone to Richard Hammond, and we were left to watch Walker paying
the congestion charge online.
Fast & Furious 6 is in cinemas nationwide.
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