Fast Nine just doesn't have the same ring to it? Which Five are the Five?
Possibly one of the better movies (relax, I know what I said) of the series Fast Five still has its weird moments. This is the first movie where the series gets kind of smart and incorporates all the little characters that it's collected along the way like Pokemon and combines them together to make the ultimate force of thugs, carjackers, racers and two very argumentative, Puerto Rican handy men (who, get this, a couple of singer-song writers in Puerto Rico).
Along with adding all these old familiar faces, a very wet Dwayne Johnson is added to the mix. Seriously I swear, before every take they spray him down like a Gatorade ad, his 4 inch beard dripping with sweat in every take. It's unsettling, he's probably also the reason this film is the first that's sponsored by UnderArmour, because his whole team seems to be donning the brand.
NOT JUST GYM WEAR!
Unlike the title suggests there's far more than five of them. There's actually a whopping 9 main characters in this band of thieves. They basically pull the Italian Job but in Brazil (which coincidentally is supposed to be the sequel to The Italian Job).
With the overflow of characters there's never a dull moment in dialogue. All the exposition heavy moments are filled with characters finishing each other's sentences and everyone in the room swinging their attention around like they're at a hockey game (typical Canadian simile, sorry).
I guess they were looking to find a way to make the dialogue moments as exciting as the car scenes.
In the home stretch of the film the dynamic-duo Baldy and Blue-Eyes pull an enormous vault out of a police station and drag it behind their two cars. SOMEHOW they are still able to outrun the squad cars chasing them. That's when Mia on the radio pipes up with the least necessary piece of dialogue of the entire movie, "It's official guys, you've got every dirty cop in Rio on your tail, you've gotta move FAST." (Face palm).
In the home stretch of the film the dynamic-duo Baldy and Blue-Eyes pull an enormous vault out of a police station and drag it behind their two cars. SOMEHOW they are still able to outrun the squad cars chasing them. That's when Mia on the radio pipes up with the least necessary piece of dialogue of the entire movie, "It's official guys, you've got every dirty cop in Rio on your tail, you've gotta move FAST." (Face palm).
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