(Sitting this one out: fast-talking Puerto Rican hustlers Leo and Santos, last seen gambling away their “Fast Five” winnings somewhere on the French Riviera.) And if teamwork has always been the principal subtext of the “Fast” movies, “Furious 6” is the most overtly Hawksian of the lot, pitting Dom’s belief in family and trust against the mercenary Shaw, who treats his people as expendably as spark plugs. Soon, Dom has most of the old band back together, along with a promise from Hobbs of immunity for all if they succeed in stopping Shaw in his tracks. Resolving that “you need wolves to catch wolves,” Hobbs hightails it to the Canaries to enlist Dom’s help - a negotiation expedited by Hobbs’ revelation that one of Shaw’s associates is a dead ringer for Dom’s erstwhile soulmate, Letty ( Michelle Rodriguez), who appeared to meet up with the wrong end of a gun in 2009’s “Fast and Furious.” Rodriguez’s return to the franchise, teased at the end of “Fast Five,” isn’t the first time these movies have brought a beloved character back from the grave, having previously resurrected Han, who appeared to die in “Tokyo Drift,” by explaining that the events of that film took place chronologically after the events of the fourth, fifth and sixth films. He also tools about in a custom-built “flip” car (so named for the damage it inflicts on anything it comes into contact with) that resembles the love child of a Dune Buggy and a Formula One car. Shaw runs with his own gang of grease-monkey mischief makers who, as one character deftly observes, suggest the evil twins of Toretto’s crew (right down to a bald, Cockney Diesel doppelganger). In a departure from the latest vogue in movie villains, this one isn’t an ideological, bin Laden-esque terrorist, but rather a stone-cold capitalist - though, admittedly, it can be hard to tell the difference these days. Shaw doesn’t intend to use the bomb himself, for which he needs only one more component part, but rather to sell it to the highest bidder. The culprit, Hobbs explains to his new partner (“Haywire” star and real-life MMA champion Gina Carano), is Owen Shaw (the snarling Luke Evans), an international man of mystery seeking to build a dirty bomb capable of knocking out an entire country’s military defense systems. SEE ALSO: Justin Lin: ‘Furious’ Filmmaker Finds Better Luck Tomorrowįollowing a brief prologue in which Mia gives birth, the pic hopscotches to Moscow, where federal agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson, reprising his “Fast Five” character) surveys the damage from a violent attack on a Russian military convoy. O’Conner, and their respective shares of $100 million in pilfered Brazilian drug money. “Furious 6” opens amid the scenic vistas of Spain’s Canary Islands, where FBI agent-turned-fugitive Brian O’Conner ( Paul Walker) and his former nemesis-turned-BFF, Dominic Toretto ( Vin Diesel), were seen hanging up their car keys at the end of “Fast Five,” along with Dom’s pregnant sister, Mia ( Jordana Brewster), aka the future Mrs. No matter who you are, there’s someone here to identify with. There’s even a romance between a Korean (Sung Kang’s Han) and an Israeli (Gal Gadot’s ex-Mossad agent, Gisele) - which, by major studio standards, is more exotic than Captain Kirk bedding down with an alien.
Women and men kick ass in equal measure in the “Fast” movies, and the good guys/girls come in all shapes, sizes and colors.
The actors have grown nicely into their roles over the years, evolving into one of the most diverse ensembles ever assembled for this kind of production.
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