{"id":284702,"date":"2021-06-24T23:40:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T20:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stupid-movie-series-should-drive-off-a-cliff\/"},"modified":"2021-06-24T23:40:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T20:40:26","slug":"stupid-movie-series-should-drive-off-a-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stupid-movie-series-should-drive-off-a-cliff\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stupid movie series should drive off a cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Stupid movie series<\/a> should drive off a cliff<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Running time: 145 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sequences of violence and action, and language.) In theaters.\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all stuck driving in the same s\u2013tty circle,\u201d says Michelle Rodriguez\u2019s character Letty in \u201cF9: The Fast Saga.\u201d \u201cAnd we\u2019re never getting out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides expressing Letty\u2019s vague existential crisis, Rodriguez is also speaking for us cranky critics who wonder just how many more atrocious \u201cFast & Furious\u201d movies we will be forced to endure. The series has been trudging along for 20 years (!!!), and boy it is showing its age. The tires are flat, the bumpers have rusted, this hunk of junk has at least a million miles on it.<\/p>\n

But, dammit, we\u2019re never getting out.<\/p>\n

For Letty and Dominic (Vin Diesel), it\u2019s not for lack of trying. At the start, they\u2019ve abandoned the open road for domestic bliss by settling on a distant farm with Dom\u2019s little son.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hot water heater is broken,\u201d Letty calmly announces.<\/p>\n

Replies Dom: \u201cThat\u2019s the price we pay for peace and quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The screenplay is not by Laura Ingalls Wilder, but director Justin Lin and Daniel Casey.<\/p>\n

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Michelle Rodriguez and Vin Diesel are back behind the wheel in
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But serenity is obliterated when Dom and Letty are thrown back into the international espionage game<\/a> after they learn Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell) captures Cipher (Charlize Theron). (Every returning character from the previous films is impressively unmemorable). That\u2019s bad because Cipher is a maniacal genius who can put together a device called Ares, which gives its owner control of the world\u2019s weapons. You know the drill.<\/p>\n

\u201cAres is the god of war, right?,\u201d says one bozo in the group\u2019s lair that reminds me of Mr. Freeze from \u201cBatman & Robin.\u201d \u201cIf he [Mr. Nobody] gets his hands on this, he\u2019ll be the god of\u2026 everything.\u201d Every character speaks with the wide-eyed seriousness and limited vocabulary of a stoner on a couch.<\/p>\n

The other complication is that Dom\u2019s estranged brother Jakob (John Cena) has joined the supervillain business and is aiding Cipher in her revenge plot. The meathead siblings haven\u2019t seen each other since they were young because Dom believes Jakob\u2019s negligence led to their racer pop\u2019s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mind Diesel and Cena starring in movies like this, because it helps keep them out of other, better movies. But to see folks such as Helen Mirren (doing her weird cockney accent again), Russell and Theron\u2019s talents wasted on such schlock is a shame.<\/p>\n

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Vin Diesel (left) does battle with John Cena (right) in \u201cF9.\u201d<\/figcaption>
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At least we can enjoy the stunts and cool cars, right? Meh. The racers drive through a Mexican jungle with conspicuously road-like paths. And the supposed good guys also wreak havoc on Tbilisi, Georgia, with an electromagnetic truck that leaves wreckage akin to a terrorist attack. All of these sequences look much more staged and faker than the earlier films.<\/p>\n

But nothing is as ludicrous as one scene featuring, well, Ludacris. The actor\u2019s character Tej, alongside Roman (Tyrese Gibson), drives a Pontiac Fiero with a rocket strapp<\/a>ed to it into outer space to disable a weapons satellite. They crack jokes and eat snacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a moment that would\u2019ve pushed the limits of absurdity in \u201cAustin Powers,\u201d which to be fair, is what the \u201cFast & Furious\u201d franchise has become: a laughable parody.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Stupid movie series should drive off a cliff” Running time: 145 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sequences of violence and action, and language.) In theaters. \u201cWe\u2019re all stuck driving in the same s\u2013tty circle,\u201d says Michelle Rodriguez\u2019s character Letty in \u201cF9: The Fast Saga.\u201d \u201cAnd we\u2019re never getting out.\u201d Besides expressing Letty\u2019s vague existential crisis, Rodriguez is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/F9-.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[110205,31035,48777,7598,52456],"class_list":["post-284702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6-24-21","tag-charlize-theron","tag-michelle-rodriguez","tag-movie-reviews","tag-vin-diesel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}