Juvenile
'til proven sinful
That is the key word. 1? Awesome (could still tell you the story back to back). 2? I enjoyed it! Tokyo Drift? I loved it. The core theme is that as ridiculous as the story was, you could enjoy it when coupled with the amount and nature of the CAR action. Then came 4 which I could watch, but one could tell that the franchise had peaked with Tokyo Drift and it was going downhill. 5 shouldn't even bear the Fast and Furious title, seeing that it was a more pulp action flick with a lousy story rather than what makes the franchise a hit. As a stand alone movie, Fast 5 is watchable, but as an F&F movie it fails hard.
All in all I'm not really trying to be a hater, I'll even watch the trailer tonight to see what they've done, but I get angry only because of the love I had for these movies. I'm all for growth and evolution, but hitting a u-turn on things isn't usually a good idea. Also, milking is very apparent here.
I've watched Fast Five so many times that I sometimes just wanna skip over the boring parts.
On a side note: Today; I watched the extended trailer at least 5 times, 'cause of showing it to classmates pretty much individually.
Everyone had pretty much the same reaction: "Yoooohhhhhh! Yoh bra, gotta watch that the same day it comes out". Quite hilarious!
, and this may be the one that brings me back to franchise (the trailer had more car action than the whole of Fast 5). Still an optimistic skeptic though
