So the movie starts off taking place
before the events of “Tokyo Drift” taking place five years after the first
movie, we see Dominic Toretto and his new team now consisting of Letty
(Michelle Rodriguez), Han (Sung Kang), which was nice to see back, and new
characters Leo and Santos (played by Tego Calderon and Don Omar) pulling off a
heist to steal fuel tankers in the Dominican Republic, it ends up being a
success but then authorities learn about this, so the crew splits and Dom
leaves Letty. Sometime later, Brian O’Conner is now an FBI agent, who is back
in L.A. now investigating drug lord Arturo Braga (John Ortiz) and is given a
name David Park. Meanwhile Mia (Jordana Brewster) calls Dom, informing him that
Letty had been murdered. When Dom returns to L.A., he decides to find Letty’s
killer and reluctantly team up with Brian in stopping Braga. This film tries to
be like a Michael Mann thriller, really dark, moody and serious and everyone is
upset over Letty’s death, but the style and tone don’t fit well with this franchise
at all. Also the climax all CGI with cars and the tunnels, no one cares.
There is some good though, but Diesel
and Walker did fine and played their parts well knowing that franchise needed
some saving. Michelle Rodriguez did a good job with what she was given, but the
rest movie, she’s dead, Jordana Brewster was better than she was in the first.
As I mentioned it was nice to see Han back in his brief appearance, a
pre-Wonder Woman Gal Gadot does a decent job as Gisele. You also get an
appearance from Shea Whigham as Brian’s snarky partner and it’s a treat to see
him there, then there’s an appearance from “The Boys” Marvin himself Laz Alonzo
as Fenix who is a cool threat to Diesel’s Dom.
Over this is my least favorite of
the series, nice to see the old cast back, but the story is lacking and the
sequences are just bad with the use of CGI.
Rating: 4/10
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