“F9: The Fast Saga”
Rated PG-13. At the AMC Boston Common, Regal Fenway, AMC South Bay, Landmark Kendall Square and suburban theaters.
Grade: B
The romance of fast cars, guns and family is taken to extreme limits once again in “F9: The Fast Saga,” a film that will take members of Dom Toretto’s extended family to infinity and beyond.
It’s been 20 years since “The Fast and the Furious” introduced us to Toretto and L.A. Police officer-turned-racer Brian O’Connor (the late Paul Walker). Beginning with a flashback to 1989 and the death on a racetrack of the race-car driver father (JD Pardo) of Dom (Vinnie Bennett) and little brother Jakob (Finn Cole and later China apologist John Cena), the film moves to a present time in which a villainous Jakob has taken possession of one half of the Project Aries device (yes, that again). If he finds the other half and unites them, the evil Toretto and his army can destroy the Earth. The only person who can stop him is his brother Dom and his team of friends and relatives, including Dom’s beloved Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) and Dom’s sister Mia (Jordana Brewster), with their supercars, guns and wild fighting skills. Dom’s gang is the Avengers without the capes or superpowers.
“How are you still alive,” Tej (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges) asks his comedy partner Roman (Tyrese Gibson). “Are we invincible?” Roman adds. The two will have one of the film’s more memorable adventures on a whole new playing field for these films. Also along for the ride this time out are British hacker Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel, “Game of Thrones”), cyberterrorist super-villain Cipher (Charlize Theron in a bobbed haircut) and mysterious Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell).
The globe-trotting film, written by Daniel Casey (“Kin”) and director Justin Lin (“Star Trek Beyond”), is basically a series of chase and fight scenes cobbled together with the flimsiest of superhero and James Bond-like, save-the-world plots. Tune it out and enjoy the completely outrageous stunt and CGI sequences. Diesel, 53, still has that appealing gravitas and distinctive vocal instrument, although he appears to be wearing a coat of sprayed-on foundation. The camera loves Rodriguez as much as ever. Gibson and Bridges have their comedy schtick down to a science. Theron, who appears in a glass box for much of her screen time, brings old school glamour and femme fatale menace.
There are several surprise appearances from previous installments that I suppose I am obliged not to mention. In addition to extreme violence and dead and injured innocent bystanders, these “Fast and Furious” films trade in sentimentality, much of it in this effort surrounding Dom’s young son Brian (Isaac and Immanuel Holdane). These “Fast and Furious” films are live-action cartoons, in this case with way too many stunts involving electromagnets. Speaking of family, that’s Vincent Sinclair Diesel as the even younger Dom. Check the “Star Wars” and “daddy issues” references. But cartoons can be artful, a lot of fun and difficult to pull off. See the team ride across rough landscape full of landmines, while choppers fire rockets at them. Steven Spielberg, the modern father of such sequences, would approve. See Dom use a cable to swing his Charger R/T from … well, you’ll see. Impossible? Over-the-top action isn’t a detriment. It’s the whole point.
(“F9: The Fast Saga” contains violent fights and extensive gun violence and profanity)
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