Fast Five takes place directly after the end of the previous installment. After Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker) and Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster) break Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) out of jail they head to Rio De Janerio, Brazil. Upon arriving in Rio, they take a job from their friend Vince (Matt Schulze) to steal three cars from a train. The job goes wrong and they end up getting double-crossed by a Brazilian mobster Reyes. Mia was able to steal the one car the mobster wanted which contained a computer chip of all his money-laundering safehouses. Looking for vengeance, they assemble a team featuring a lot of their old friends to steal $100 million from Reyes. To make the hard job even more difficult, Dom, Brian and Mia are being tracked by elite DSS agent Luke Hobbs (Dwanye "The Rock" Johnson) . Hobbs is looking to apprehend them for breaking Dom out of prison and will stop at nothing to capture him and bring him to justice.
Fast Five is one hell of a way to start the summer movie season off. This is exactly the piece of pure entertainment that 2011 needed. Fast Five is the best installment yet. It takes more of a focus on being a action-packed heist film then a street racing film. It doesn't completely abandon racing, the film is just more focused on the heist centering the film. I think this makes the franchise even better and I really like the direction these films have taken. The action sequences are completely beefed up to a grander scale. The fight between Dom and Agent Hobbs is one of the most intense movie fights in recent memory. Even more impressive is the heist sequence at the end of the film. That is the absolute best sequence out of any film I have seen this year. It's one hell of a chase scene and it's a thrilling climax to a fantastic film.
Fast Five is one of the best straight action films I have seen in the past few years. The action scenes are top-notch and the story is engaging and surprisingly pretty good. There is also a surprising amount of laughs to be had. The new found humor adds something that has been missing from The Fast and Furious formula. The cast has good chemistry together and Dwayne Johnson's presence as the new "villain" is a big plus. Fast Five is a more mature, more action-packed, and more fun version of The Fast and The Furious. Fast Five is the best film of 2011 so far as well as the best installment of the franchise.
4.5/5 Stars
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