Fast & Furious 6 - Review ** SPOILER ALERT*

Last night I had the absolute pleasure of attending an advanced screening of Fast & Furious 6 at the beautiful AMC Sunset Place 24.  I won tickets from KeepItClassic.com (check out the winners list for my name!).  This is one of the more recent franchises that I believe has not died out yet (save for Tokyo Drift, but there's always a family outcast right?).

Synopsis

The opening scene begins with a high speed race (what did you expect?) between Paul Walker's character Brain in a GTR and Vin Diesel's character Dom in a Charger.  They pull up at a very quiet and calm building, which turns out to be a hospital - Brian is about to be a father.  Dom tells Brian that when he walks through those doors, their previous life (criminal) is over with.  Flash to Dwayne Johnson's character Agent Luke Hobbs.  There has been a number of thefts over 12 different countries lead by Luke Evan's oh so sexy character Shaw and his second in command, surprise not so surprise Michelle Rodriguez's character Letty.  Hobbs, along with his partner Riley (pay attention to this) knows he needs Dom's team to get a hold off Shaw.  He goes to Dom with a recent picture of Letty.  Dom rounds the team up and they agree to do the job in London, for full amnesty of course.  Few scenes occur where they try to catch Shaw, which we know is not happening because its way to early, flash to Dom chasing a GTX, which turns out to be Letty, who prominently shoots Dom in the arm and escapes.  Back at the lair, Dom does not understand why she did that, while Brian tries to offer up sentimental support.  They learn that Braga is involved, Brian travels back to the US with the help of Officer Stasiak (remember the agent that Brian slams face first into the wall at the department? He does it again, but this time in jail).  Stasiak buys Brian a 24 hour window in the jail where Braga is located.  Braga confronts Brian and tells him Letty wasn't killed but instead has absolutely no memories prior to the accident.  Shaw found her and brought her on his team.  Braga also tells Brian that Shaw does not let you get close unless he wants you to.  We learn of a street race going down, but sadly for all my car fans (I included) its just Dom and Letty who take to the streets, then stop, and have a warm and fuzzy heart to heart.  She drives off, Shaw drives up and has a pow wow with Dom (geeze, Dom is just in a connecting mood isn't he?).  Dom refuses to leave without Letty - his family.  Cut to Tej (Ludacris) finding out that Shaw's team is hitting a military base for a chip that they need in order to create world chaos (what else would they be doing?).  Dom's team figures out that Shaw wanted the base to move the unit, so they planted someone there to breech security.  Long, intense chase down a stretch of road, where Shaw becomes even more villianistic when he moves his commandeered tank to oncoming pedestrian traffic.  Roman (Tyrese) somehow gets his car attached to the front of the tank and wraps a cord/string/rope around it.  Shaw sends Letty to cut the rope, knowing that he is sacrificing her. Brian manages to flip Roman's car over the side of the bridge creating an anchor.  In creating the anchor, it flips the tank, with Letty still on top of it.  Dom flings himself out of his car, catches Letty mid-air, and lands on the hood of another car across the way.  Back at the base, Hobbs pays visit to Shaw, then brings him out to tell Dom that his people have kidnapped Mia (Jordana Brewster) and he will walk free.  They agree, and before Shaw leaves he turns to the group and says "Coming, babe?"  They pan over to Letty, but then unfocus on her, to refocus on Riley (remember Hobb's partner?) who says "I wouldn't miss it for the world." and walks out with Shaw.  Break to a high speed chase down the runway, and then a floating island (huge ass military plane) overhead.  Lots of fighting takes place.  Brian gets Mia back and off the plane, Dom fights Shaw, Letty fights Riley, Hobbs fights a big muscle-y mirror of himself from Shaw's team, Tej and Roman and stuck to a cord attaching them to the plane thats taking off, as well as Han and Giselle in their car, and two of Shaw's goons in they're SUV.  Mid-air one of the goons grabs Giselle, Han wrestles with him and is able to grab Giselle from falling.  ** SPOILER ALERT**  Giselle sees the guy climbing back towards them, lets go of Han, shoots the guy, and slams to the ground.  They manage to bring down the plane.  All the bad guys die, all the good guys (well our guys) live with the exception of Giselle.  Hobbs asks Dom his price, Dom says 1327.  Flash to their home from the first Fast and the Furious.  Han says that he is going to Tokyo.  Last seen ends with a race in the streets of Tokyo, where a car slams into one of the racers and the car blows up.  The racer is Han and the scene is the other POV of Han's death, with Jason Statham getting out and calling Dom.  Movie ends.

Review

All in all I would give the movie an 8/10.  My main grievance is that obviously they can't make it solely based on car racing anymore, but the most we got was a quick back and forth about vehicle specs, a few high end vehicles, and the two minute race between Dom and Letty.  The action in the movie was incredible, as the graphics, stunts, actors/actresses, and everything else.  It is still a great franchise and I cannot wait to see 7.

Final

8/10