Fast Five Reviews
Examiner.com
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Quickflix
It's not the sign of a particularly good film when the entire cast could be replaced by belligerent three-year-olds and you could expect most of the line readings to remain exactly the same.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
These movies are sheer silliness, improbable roadway mayhem interspersed with obligatory fistfights and gunplay, all coated with a noxious layer of adolescent macho posturing.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Little White Lies
It's possibly the most brainless film of the year. Until the third Transformers film surfaces, that is.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Las Vegas Weekly
Heads into the garage for almost the entirety of its sluggish middle section, which turns into a second-rate Ocean's Eleven-style heist movie.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticIgnoring the rules of physics doesn't make a movie more entertaining; it merely makes the writing easier. If a screenplay can cheat at any time, it encourages sloppy authorship.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Three Movie Buffs
So long as they're driving it's fine, but whenever they stop to open their mouths, it grinds to a halt.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Film4
Starts well with dippily exciting action and daft dialogue, but outstays its welcome as it devolves into a deeply daft Ocean's Eleven riff.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Boston Phoenix
Though the smash-bang chases make for dumb fun, it all mostly cruises in a noisy neutral. And with his film clocking in at over two hours, director Justin Lin might have raised his own speed limit.
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| Original Score: 2/4
St. Paul Pioneer Press
There's good stuff, but it's the weakest of the "Fast" films.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Slant Magazine
Far less interested in vehicular craziness than the wisecracking repartee of its supporting specialists.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
EricDSnider.com
One of the better entries in the series. That's not to say it isn't big and dumb, only that its big dumbness is executed with some degree of competence.
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| Original Score: C+
Reno News and Review
While this is the best in the franchise since the first film, I still don't like it because watching Vin Diesel in anything makes me want to punch myself in the face...and that's just not healthy.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Mania.com
The supreme idiocy on display really wouldn't matter if the film just bothered to acknowledge it.
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| Original Score: C
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
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.
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| Original Score: C
Antagony & Ecstasy
Occasionally, though not frequently enough, something awesome happens.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
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.
Instead of a vroomer, we get a knucklehead "Ocean's 11."
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Metromix.com
A giant overdose of testosterone mixed with soap opera for muscleheads and gearheads.
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| Original Score: 3/5
