Fast & Furious X

The more fat Vin Diesel has on his neck, the dumber and dumber things get, and all the time you're wondering which is worse, Momoa's buffoonery or the attempts at "Shakespearean" character acting by the chump in charge. You can't enjoy the action if you know that 90% of what you see is CGI, so there is no human factor, no risk. So, while for example Bullitt can be enjoyed even after fifty years and gives you a pleasant tingling sensation, here I was bored after 10 minutes of fooling around in Rome, and I would rather do something more useful, like getting drunk :). Moreover, I'm getting tired of the franchise from the human side, because characters who were previously arch enemies are now best mates, or the other way around in the next episode, depending on whether the actor has managed to sign a contract, and you really stop giving a fuck. At least the production didn't make Charlize wear those stupid wigs anymore, here she's looks fine here :) (12.06.2023)

Just as stupid as last time, but a lot more entertaining. This time, Dom and his family face an enemy that's been preparing for a clash with them for ten years, and he wants to enjoy it. And most of the cast enjoys it too, not afraid to push the tenth Fast and Furious into comedy, but also pushing the most superficial characters to at least some development. Everyone here is trying and everyone here is having fun. Except Vin Diesel, who apparently still thinks he's making something like Hamlet with cars. Stupid, but fun. (19.05.2023)

After the disappointing 9, it's a return to the better parts of the franchise, thanks to the new actors on the scene. It's once again decent silly fun that entertains with over-the-top action, great actors, a fine soundtrack, apt humour, decent fights and surprising twists. Jason Momoa, who has been plotting revenge on Torret for years, comes in and he is the biggest asset of the 10th episode. Momoa is an incredible overacting madman who entertains, surprises and shocks with his eccentric performance. He is the best villain in the franchise and makes the film worth watching. I was also pleased with the likable Brie Larson and especially Alan Ritchson (Reacher!), another big thunderer on the scene, a bit of a replacement for The Rock. I was surprised that there aren't as many outright epic stunt set-pieces, but on the other hand there are plenty of physical fights, which is my favourite, and I enjoyed plenty of those (Statham rules!!). There is some dodgy CGI, but that's forgivable. The whole thing is fast paced and entertaining, the soundtrack is decent and Roman doesn't disappoint with the humour. There's a twist at the end and it's quite lethal. So the finale will be decently tense and I'm curious if there will be a new cast. For me, a fine popcorn blockbuster, perfect for a date night. 7/10. (22.05.2023)

A reliable dose of the same old same old, occasionally lacking in any exceptional originality. Even though everyone in front of and behind the camera can bend over backwards to surprise, provoke, or turn the laws of physics upside down for the viewers over and over again, I can't help but sometimes sit with the feeling that it's not a complete Yes. I welcome Brie Larson and the wild Jason Momoa in the role of the Brazilian clown Pennywise, I can also accept any "fun for the whole family". After all the leaping over skyscrapers, endless highways, or torpedos getting hurled away, I was just expecting something more specific than complicated chases through metropoles and more escalating triumphs pulled out of agency sleeves. (19.07.2023)

I am slowly starting to forget what happened where and who is family or enemy with whom and in what frame of mind we actually parted ways with him/her. It's still dumb, and now it's hideously unfinished. But it has Momoa, a brutally wisecracking, loud, mocking, laughing Momoa, a breath of fresh air in this overblown franchise. Everyone shows up: the dead, the alive, the squabbling, with newcomers Jack Reacher and Captain Marvel + Ratcatcher 2. The action is fiercer and stronger than last time. I'm still enjoying it immensely, but I'm looking forward to the end. There, the paraplegic Torreto will have to cope with a different type of life after waking up from anaesthesia. (19.06.2023)

Fast and Furious wants to be like other big and successful franchises, for example, Marvel or Mission Impossible. It aims to put together its own universe with its own rules, audience favourite characters and, most importantly, make billions of dollars. The quality, however, has extreme fluctuations from one episode to the next, and in the case of the tenth it’s for the worse. And yet it looks so promising in the first minutes, with a brief recap and alternation of the legendary fifth episode. But this sequel is bad in pretty much every aspect. There isn't much humour, the action is trivial, the visual effects are extremely poorly done and if all this can be forgiven because of your favourites, the protagonists (with the exception of Jason Momoa) don't even have any juice. Perhaps the biggest filmmaking failure for me is the blatant attempt to rip off the best moments of other films and use them in a worse way, without having the same added value, or at least the desired effect. There are a lot of trademarks and fragments of other episodes in the franchise, and also from Face Off, Mission Impossible, Mad Max, etc. This franchise has turned into a billion-dollar colossus, but the last two episodes bring it back to the quality level of the third and fourth entries (if not worse), which hardly anyone remembers, let alone appreciates nowadays after all those excesses. (12.06.2023)