Fast Five Reviews
We Got This Covered
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.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Lyles' Movie Files
Like a shot of nitro to the franchise and shows there's plenty left in the tank.
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| Original Score: 9/10
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Manages to be more fun than any movie with its outrageous carbon footprint has any right to be.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
ScreenRant
The series has found new traction in the heist format -- resulting in a fun and immensely entertaining ride.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
TheMovieReport.com
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The Baltic Times
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
MSN.com
Forget physics, it's just a fun blast of action movie ingenuity, as is the film as a whole.
BrandonFibbs.com
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.
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| Original Score: 7/10
The Age (Australia)
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Movie City News
It's trying so hard to pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease. But that's also why it's entertaining
DVDTalk.com
nostalgic for older team films, and a world in which people interacted face to face
Screen It!
'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)
Reel Film Reviews
...a frustratingly protracted piece of work that should have been so much better...
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Flicks.co.nz
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
MovieCrypt.com
Fifth time's the charm.
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| Original Score: 4.0/4.0
Q Network Film Desk
a loud, full-throttled, bombastic heist flick with no apologies for its obsessions with speed, violence, intensity,
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Killer Movie Reviews
Cars zoom, guns blaze, and the quips fly with wild abandon, but the biggest achievement to be found here is the pairing of Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson. About effing time.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top Critic[Johnson's] skin looks as though it's been slathered in butter; his enjoyment is infectious and keeps the movie speeding along.
