Fast Five Reviews

Fast Five boasts incredible action scenes that are all varied and equally exciting. The film is full of clean, well choreographed shots that are easy to watch and the cast works great as a whole unit, making the film's running time breeze by.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

Like a shot of nitro to the franchise and shows there's plenty left in the tank.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

Manages to be more fun than any movie with its outrageous carbon footprint has any right to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The series has found new traction in the heist format -- resulting in a fun and immensely entertaining ride.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

One film was enough, two was plenty, but five is just absurd. Undoubtedly, there will be several people who will flock to this film just because it has cars zooming back and forth, so at least some people will be pleased with it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The jauntier vibe makes for easier viewing between the big high-speed car set pieces, which are every bit as big, loud, and crazily over-the-top preposterous as one would expect and hope.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

t's about cars, girls and fighting and doesn't pretend to be anything else. For sheer gall alone, "Fast Five" provides much entertainment. Just not much intellect.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Fast Five is grindingly mechanical -- and not just because of all the emphasis on car repairs and retooling.

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Forget physics, it's just a fun blast of action movie ingenuity, as is the film as a whole.

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It's not like I'm asking for The Road Warrior... just some basic coverage and a less-than-total reliance on camera movement to generate excitement.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Director Justin Lin has a spooky, second sense for staging bombastic action sequences, even if he breaks every law in physics to make them work.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Spins its wheels. Shifts between gravel-voiced speeches (about true family) and bicep-offs. Throttling dialogue, long hard looks, and heist clichés skid on for blocks.

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There's arguably even more gun and car play than in F&F4, with the prolonged car chase finale easily chiming in as the best, most imaginative one in the franchise so far.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

It's trying so hard to pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease. But that's also why it's entertaining

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For those needing preposterous stunts, laugh-out-loud bad dialogue, testosterone-fueled posturing and an "Ocean's 11"-like plot apparently written by and for 13-year-old boys.

Full Review | Original Score: C

nostalgic for older team films, and a world in which people interacted face to face

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'Fast Five delivers what a dumb, popcorn flick is supposed to and easily passes my standard 'guy-movie' litmus test -- it makes one want to drive fast after seeing it, high gas prices or not. (Parental Content Review also available)

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...a frustratingly protracted piece of work that should have been so much better...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Street racing is dialed down in favour of Ocean's Eleven-style heist plotting and favela gunplay straight out of Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Fifth time's the charm.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.0/4.0