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Paul Walker<\/strong> and\u00a0Jordana Brewster<\/strong> take a leap in the action film Fast Five.<\/em><\/p>\n (Posted May 6, 2011)<\/em><\/p>\n By Maggie Scott<\/strong><\/p>\n Your favorite gearheads are back; the boys with Valvoline in their blood and Hemis in their hearts, in Fast Five<\/em>, director Justin Lin\u2019s newest installment in the Fast and Furious franchise.<\/p>\n Bringing you up to zero-to-sixty-in-seconds speed, the story picks up where the last film ended with Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) about to be spectacularly rescued off his prison-bound bus by his best bud Brian (Paul Walker) and Dom\u2019s sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster), Brian\u2019s lover.<\/p>\n Reunited in the slums of Rio, the hard-up trio takes an \u201ceasy money\u201d job hijacking some high-end cars off a train. But their unaware that one of the cars contains information crucial to the illegal operations of Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida), a man who\u2019s bought the loyalty of the slums with electricity and running water.<\/p>\n Since DEA agents were gunned down during the hijack, not only Brazilian police, but elite federal agents led by the muscle-bound Luke Hobbs (Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson) are breathing hard down the necks of Dom and Brian.<\/p>\n Along with Elena (Elsa Pataky), one of the force\u2019s \u201cincorruptible\u201d officers, Hobbs and his men invade Dom\u2019s hideout, guns blazing; only to face competition from Reyes\u2019s men on the same mission. Shaking them all off for the time being, Vince lays out \u201cone last job: to take every last dime of Reyes\u2019s money and disappear.\u201d\u00a0 As good as Vince and Brian are, they\u2019re going to \u201cneed a team\u201d: fast-talkers, fast drivers who \u201cwon\u2019t crack under pressure\u201d and fast fingers with circuits, weapons and punching through walls.\u00a0 The<\/p>\n job could net them an even split of one-hundred million dollars.<\/p>\n Hit once by Vince and his team (Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Tego Calderon, Don Omar), Reyes moves his money to a vault in the bowels of the municipal police department; and the mission impossible, turned mission insane, begins. Missing the major elements of what made the earlier films peel-out entertainment, Fast Five is fuel-injected with warm fuzzies instead of adrenalin.<\/p>\n The occasional shots of scantily clad Brazilian bodies seem obligatory, and there\u2019s one lame drag race and a couple of ho-hum sequences of the team pushing the limits of their cars to fake out surveillance cameras.<\/p>\n Hobbs comes across as a blow hard Terminator and we\u2019ve heard the team members\u2019 comic relief wisecracks before.\u00a0 Unless you\u2019re into muscle cars, the wheels aren\u2019t impressive, and the final, over-the-top chase with Vince and Brian hauling a huge vault (shades of hijacked ATM machines) with their souped-up Dodge Chargers is too long on smash-ups and too short on thrills.<\/p>\n And yet\u2026.just when you think there\u2019s no more charge in this series\u2019 creative battery, you find yourself hoping as you leave the theatre that they\u2019ll find just the right imaginative cables to jumpstart these demon drivers and their cars for more, and more worthy, cinematic mileage.\u00a0 A Universal Pictures release, rated PG-13<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Paul Walker<\/strong> and Jordana Brewster<\/strong> take a leap in <\/em><\/p>\n ‘Fast Five’ Leaves You Hoping For<\/strong><\/p>\n More From Fast and Furious Guys<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n By Maggie Scott<\/strong><\/p>\n Your favorite gearheads are back; the boys with Valvoline in their blood and Hemis in their hearts, in Fast Five<\/em>, director Justin Lin\u2019s newest installment in the Fast and Furious franchise.<\/p>\n Bringing you up to zero-to-sixty-in-seconds speed, the story picks up where the last film ended with Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) about to be spectacularly rescued off his prison-bound bus by his best bud Brian (Paul Walker) and Dom\u2019s sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster), Brian\u2019s lover.<\/p>\n Reunited in the slums of Rio, the hard-up trio takes an \u201ceasy money\u201d job hijacking some high-end cars off a train. But their unaware that one of the cars contains information crucial to the illegal operations of Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida), a man who\u2019s bought the loyalty of the slums with electricity and running water.<\/p>\n Since DEA agents were gunned down during the hijack, not only Brazilian police, but elite federal agents led by the muscle-bound Luke Hobbs (Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson) are breathing hard down the necks of Dom and Brian.<\/p>\n Along with Elena (Elsa Pataky), one of the force\u2019s \u201cincorruptible\u201d officers, Hobbs and his men invade Dom\u2019s hideout, guns blazing; only to face competition from Reyes\u2019s men on the same mission. Shaking them all off for the time being, Vince lays out \u201cone last job: to take every last dime of Reyes\u2019s money and disappear.\u201d\u00a0 As good as Vince and Brian are, they\u2019re going to \u201cneed a team\u201d: fast-talkers, fast drivers who \u201cwon\u2019t crack under pressure\u201d and fast fingers with circuits, weapons and punching through walls.\u00a0 The<\/p>\n job could net them an even split of one-hundred million dollars.<\/p>\n Hit once by Vince and his team (Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Tego Calderon, Don Omar), Reyes moves his money to a vault in the bowels of the municipal police department; and the mission impossible, turned mission insane, begins. Missing the major elements of what made the earlier films peel-out entertainment, Fast Five is fuel-injected with warm fuzzies instead of adrenalin.<\/p>\n The occasional shots of scantily clad Brazilian bodies seem obligatory, and there\u2019s one lame drag race and a couple of ho-hum sequences of the team pushing the limits of their cars to fake out surveillance cameras.<\/p>\n Hobbs comes across as a blow hard Terminator and we\u2019ve heard the team members\u2019 comic relief wisecracks before.\u00a0 Unless you\u2019re into muscle cars, the wheels aren\u2019t impressive, and the final, over-the-top chase with Vince and Brian hauling a huge vault (shades of hijacked ATM machines) with their souped-up Dodge Chargers is too long on smash-ups and too short on thrills.<\/p>\n And yet\u2026.just when you think there\u2019s no more charge in this series\u2019 creative battery, you find yourself hoping as you leave the theatre that they\u2019ll find just the right imaginative cables to jumpstart these demon drivers and their cars for more, and more worthy, cinematic mileage.\u00a0 A Universal Pictures release, rated PG-13<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Paul Walker and\u00a0Jordana Brewster take a leap in the action film Fast Five. (Posted May 6, 2011) By Maggie Scott Your favorite gearheads are back; the boys with Valvoline in their blood and Hemis in their hearts, in Fast Five, director Justin Lin\u2019s newest installment in the Fast and Furious franchise. 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