In Theaters: May 24th, 2013
Runtime: 2 hours 10 minutes (130 minutes)
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Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson lead the returning cast of all-stars as the global blockbuster franchise built on speed races to its next continent in Fast & Furious 6. Reuniting for their most high-stakes adventure yet, fan favorites Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Chris Ludacris Bridges and Elsa Pataky are joined by badass series newcomers Luke Evans and Gina Carano. Building on the worldwide blockbuster success of Fast Five and taking the action, stunts and narrative to even greater heights, Fast & Furious 6 sees director Justin Lin back behind the camera for the fourth time. He is supported by longtime producers Neal H. Moritz and Vin Diesel, who welcome producer Clayton Townsend back to the series.
Exists purely to showcase how idiotically over-the-top action sequences can become when annoyances like gravity are tossed to the side.
Critic Score: 2/4
Some of the action sequences are insane. No, really. Absurd, impossible, physics defying, triage-required stuff. No matter. That's the foolish rush of a franchise that must go faster and faster and furiouser and furiouser.
Critic Score: 2.5/4
Ludicrous, but undeniably fun and surprisingly affectionate, this is really all you could ask of a car crash movie, and more.
Furious Six continues on in the same vein as its predecessor, and may just be my favorite of the lot.
Critic Score: 6.8/10
For their own part, Vin Diesel and the "F&F" handlers seem eager to assert how they've molded a series of installments into, yep, a saga, complete with expansive, twisty continuity.
Critic Score: 3/4
That the movie is so indifferently written shouldn't really be a surprise. The dialogue is just there to mark time between the set pieces, and it's nice to report that Lin has outdone himself in that department.
Critic Score: 3/4
Fast & Furious 6 is much like the other Fast & Furious films. Which is to say it does its thing pretty well.
Critic Score: 2.5/4
There's a Road Runneresque sense of madness that's undeniably infectious. If only it was played off characters who had some sense of reality, who weren't such obvious constructions, and who spoke fewer leaden lines.
Critic Score: C-
It pretty much goes without saying that the script by Chris Morgan, who penned most of the previous installments, is achingly stupid and beyond ludicrous.
Critic Score: 2/4
[The action is] glorious while it lasts, but then the film goes back to figuring out how to keep its oversized vessel from taking on water. And that's more hard work than it's worth.
A satisfying thrill ride, at least on a par with the earlier installments.
Critic Score: 3/5
A comedown from the high of "Fast Five," but the physics-be-damned stuntwork and girl-on-girl beatdowns keep this series the guiltiest of pleasures.
Critic Score: 2.5/4
It's a ripsnorting carmageddon that stylizes automotive annihilation the way John Woo used to choreograph death and destruction with guns and explosions.
Critic Score: 3/4
Sometimes Fast & Furious 6 is engrossing, sometimes absurd, and some of the action is so outlandish it makes the audience laugh. But whatever it is, it's always some variety of fun.
Happily, amid all the noise, the races -- there's a terrific one through the streets of downtown London -- the crashes and the outlandish stunts, there is some humor, and it's very welcome.
[Director Justin Lin] manages to imbue the material with Hawksian notions of masculinity, group dynamics, and moral authority even as he preserves the franchise's multicultural milieu and gleefully exaggerated action sequences.
Perhaps the most annoying thing about the movie: The final scene sets up yet another sequel.
Critic Score: 1.5/5
Lin understands this track inside and out, backwards and forwards - four directions out of countless others in which he spins us.
Critic Score: 4/5
The plot and dialogue are still stilted and stupid, but that only proves that Justin Lin, who has directed the last four F & Fs, has his priorities straight.
Critic Score: 3/4
'Fast and Furious 6' is the fastest, funniest and most outlandishly entertaining chapter yet. I'm not kidding, I kinda loved this insanely stupid movie.
Critic Score: 4.5/5
Nothing classic here, except the vehicles. But if you're looking for revved-up cars, trucks, tanks and tunnel racing, F&F6 is King Kong on wheels.
Critic Score: 2.5/4
True, the movie doesn't know when or how to put the brakes on. It does, however, understand precisely what it is.
Critic Score: 3.5/5
The whole thing becomes no different than a six-year-old knocking his toys together and making noises.
Critic Score: 2/4
Sustains its joyful, unpretentious ridiculousness so perfectly that I secretly hoped the "6" meant "hours long"...
Critic Score: 3.5/4
Let's just cut to another car chase, OK? That's what this franchise knows how to do, and if that's the kind of popcorn fun you're looking for, "F&F 6" has the goods.
Critic Score: 2.5/4
Here's a movie that could easily have been dialogue-free. And probably would have been better for it.
Critic Score: 2/4
A borderline ridiculous, over-the-top demolition derby that also happens to be a perfectly constructed low-IQ blast.
Critic Score: B+
For my money, "Furious 6'' is more fun than "Skyfall''' and a lot more fun than the deadly dull "Star Trek Into Darkness,'' both of which ask you to take their silly plots way too seriously.
Critic Score: 3/4
Furious 6 is even cooler and more aerodynamically delirious than its predecessor, if such a thing is even theoretically possible.
None of it makes any sense, except within the high-octane logic of blowing stuff up onscreen. And, in case you're wondering, sometimes that can be entertainment enough ...
Critic Score: 3/5
Lin and his team do an extraordinary job of staging the ever-escalating action sequences, up to a jaw-on-the-floor finale involving various four-wheel vehicles in and around a cargo plane that's trying to take off.
Everyone involved at last seems to understand that the mode here is comic. Previous entries suffered from self-important glumness that gummed up the fun whenever the cars weren't racing.
Has something for everyone, so long as everyone wants their action supercharged.
Critic Score: 8/10
With its puerile dialogue, daft performances, flat comic repartee and ear-rupturingly loud sound levels, the experience of watching 'Fast & Furious 6' is like listening to death metal pour out of 500-watt speakers while being strapped to a pneumatic drill.
Critic Score: 2/5
This new entry will only add mightily to the good fortunes of Universal's biggest franchise; no matter how silly and outlandish the action gets -- and it does become ridiculous -- it also delivers the goods its audience expects.
Faithful fans and passersby alike should be more than pleased by this superior piece of classical action craftsmanship.
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