“Fast Five”

             Adolfo C

               11/15/12

              Per.5 English

“Fast Five”

     “Fast Five” is a great and interesting movie. “Fast Five” is like a combination of all The Fast and Furious movies, which makes it fantastic. The director Justin Lin shows how life really is, if there were to be chaos with street races in the cities. It explains how reckless it can be at times. “Fast Five” really involves a lot of action. One reason this movie is the best is the actors, setting, and the cars. The actors are really good ones they do their job of acting.  Some of these actors are from the other Fast and furious movies like Vin Diesel (Dom), Paul Walker (Brian), Jordana Brewster (Mia), Eva Mendes; some of the new characters are good too.

     The setting is great because it makes you explore, especially since its somewhere in South America. The setting was practically in Brazil, which it basically involves some culture due to the setting. Out of all the Fast and Furious movies this one is the only one that includes the setting in South America so far. This actually makes the setting interesting because not always the setting is going to be somewhere other than the United States.

      The cars are really cool because they would be normal cars but then again they would have better auto parts. These cars are practically street legal, just that they put some other illegal types of auto parts that are other than the engine itself. The fun part about this movie is that you simulate the race because they show the inside part of the car and it feels like your driving at certain times. This makes the movie more entertaining and funny.  “Always preposterous though never actually silly, knowingly funny without ever being self-conscious, Fast Five is a passable action flick that will more than entertain its core audience” (Cole). In contrast people don’t agree with me so they criticize the movie such as (Mike La Salle) who said “The first sequel to the 2001 "The Fast and the Furious" that's worth watching, that isn't an embarrassment or a travesty of the original picture”(LaSalle). This shows negative criticism to “Fast Five” and that the other movie from this franchise was way better.

     In conclusion, Fast Five is a great movie to see especially in the summer. This movie puts you in the mood when you want to see an action movie filled with girls, and car races. This movie is one of the best because it continues its story line and it has most of the best actors. These actors did full fill their job into making a nice action movie that is funny, and very interesting; it is probably one of the best movie productions there is.

Works Cited

Wilmington, Michael. Rotten Tomatoes. Chicago reader. Fast Five.  April 29, 2011 Oct.26, 2012

LaSalle, Mick. Rotten Tomatoes. Sam Francisco Chronicle. Fast Five. April 28, 2011. Oct 26,2012