Fast X Movie Review: Two years after the ninth chapter, the most dysfunctional, adrenaline-pumping, insane, and seemingly immortal family in the history of cinema is back. In Fast X we once again find Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his irrepressible need to reunite the family – or the clan? – in the name of a hard-to-die habit, which as expected begins in the certainty that everything will go well, ending up on the contrary and therefore becoming a real mission impossible.

If at first, it might seem to see, even if only for a moment, the figure of Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), the historic protagonist of the now legendary Mission Impossible film saga, considering the high rate of action and spectacularity of this tenth chapter, to remind us that seriousness and drama do not belong in any way to the Fast & Furious franchise, the crazy but hilarious villain played by Jason Momoa – Dante Reyes – soon arrives and immediately takes the film back to where he has always found his living space, or comfort zone, the B Movie.

Yet Louis Leterrier inheriting the throne from Justin Lin, director of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious – Only original parts, as well as the fifth, sixth, and ninth chapter of the saga, does not spare himself. 

In fact, its tenth chapter really tries hard to reach that maturity and then that twilight so typical of the final titles, or rather, of the farewells, although we already know very well that Fast X can only represent a brand new beginning, widely suggested by the final sequence and with a decidedly dilated construction and full of characters never known before and therefore destined to reappear.

Fast X Movie Story:

Returning to the ninth chapter of Fast & Furious directed by Justin Lin and its opening scene, we once again find the question of Dominic Toretto’s trauma, inevitably linked to the death of his father figure, followed by the dimension of the present, which sees him dress playing the role of the apprehensive father who is increasingly convinced of having to – and wanting to – say goodbye to his large family, giving up adrenaline, beatings, shootings and incredible car escapes in the name of tranquility and a love without equal, that is, between a father and a son.

A tranquility that, however, never really belonged to the members of his dysfunctional and tormented family, either due to emergency protocols made up of hiding places and armaments or due to a memory of the repressed that responds directly to a premature loss of innocence and light-heartedness.

In any case, Fast X begins where Fast & Furious 9 left off, from the barbecue to the house under construction, up to Dom’s new family unit, endangered this time by a sadistic and unruly villain and no longer just cynical and cruel as happened in the previous chapters. There is no longer any question of a world order, but rather an individual one. 

Fast X therefore, unlike any other chapter or spin-off of the entire franchise, seems to lead its mad adrenaline rush right toward the central track of the saga created by Rob Cohen, David Ayer, Erik Bergquist, and Gary Scott Thompson in the early years of the two thousand, the family. Some fathers fight to protect their children and sons fight to protect their fathers.

If Dom has overcome the trauma, in the name of that famous paternal motto: “It’s not enough to be the strongest, it’s better to be the most mature”, it is in the villain played by Jason Momoa that we are finally presented with his real nemesis. 

And it is a joy, since the spectator fears exactly like the protagonists of the film themselves, that everything because of a madman with nothing to lose can tragically come to an end, participating emotionally as never happened before in the chaos and death that from one moment to ‘other can hit this or that member.

Fast X Movie Analysis:

For the very first time, in fact, the characterization of the antagonist pushes in the direction of an uncontrolled, silly, grotesque, and potentially lethal evil. An evil that was born from the trauma of loss, from the absence of a guiding figure, and from a long series of psychological breakdowns.

The big Fast & Furious family is no longer safe, it is no longer invincible, since Louis Leterrier, while having fun between visually surprising sequences, such as those in Rome, or the unbridled use of foul-mouthed and very often hilarious humor, leads more and more rapidly and sadly the clan of Dom Toretto towards the farewell, forcing each of them to make one last guide towards the avenue of sunset. Immortality is over, welcome vulnerability.

In the name of the family, it is in fact correct, if necessary, to sacrifice oneself. We know it, and they know it, this explains the crepuscular tone of this tenth chapter which, returning to the mainland, finds the nature of an entire saga, amusing, surprising, and incessantly involving the viewer in a really well-managed succession of farewells, scene, violence, humor, adrenaline and an eternally childish taste for the super-humanistic extremes of action and car racing,

Just as for many years we wondered what kind of father the one played by Liam Neeson in the course of his post-Taken trilogy filmography, it is natural today to ask the same question looking at the relationship between Dominic Toretto and his son Brian. However, we just have to wait for the next chapters, because as John Cena underlined several times, who here is spatial in the literal sense of the term: “This film represents just another way to start” and we can only believe him, hoping to see him again and Still.

Fast X: evaluation and conclusion

Louis Leterrier visibly having fun builds his Fast X as an amusement park capable of alternating long moments of stasis, with other highly adrenaline-pumping, noisy, and once again extreme dynamism, so much so that it places itself more and more naturally in the places of science fiction.

They are not the Avengers, but we are close. Their armor is in fact the cars and before this chapter we thought very little about it, making a mistake bordering on semiotics.

In the name of popular cinema, popcorn, spectacular and great entertainment, Fast X hits the target and convinces to the end, without being boring or redundant, despite a respectable duration and continuing the stylistic and narrative research of the previous chapters. whose element of interest and common strength lay precisely in never taking itself seriously, Leterrier’s film plays with the viewer making him or her feel part of the Toretto family.

What an incredible race and what a beautiful villain that of Jason Momoa, a Joker on steroids and with a passion for cars… Todd Phillips take notes.