fast 9 review no spoilers

Justin Lin, the director of this movie delivers the signature car chase action sequences like never before. This movie is full of ridiculous car chases with some insane-looking stunts. This time Justin Lin literally takes Fast & Furious to outer space.

Most of the action sequences in this movie are beyond incredible. They almost make the movie seem like a parody of some sort. Which is fascinating yet a bit disturbing for some of the hardcore fans of the franchise. Fast and Furious 9 is a 2021 American action-adventure film starring the original Fast 9 cast of Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges among others. The ninth edition of the franchise was released for the Asian diaspora on May 19 and was greeted with heavy box office numbers. However, the reviews for the movie were mixed as many praised the plot but criticised the unrealism in action sequences.

Here's a quick run through the Fast & Furious 9 leaks to see whether it's worth the hype. Just witty banter, perfectly positioned jokes, a dash of heart, and over-the-top mad fun action set pieces. Most importantly the fast movies or the saga, in general, know just how to switch gears in tone and plot to keep things interesting. F9 was originally scheduled for a worldwide release by Universal Pictures on April 19, 2019, but was delayed several times, first due to the release of Hobbs & Shaw and planned release of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's No Time to Die , and then the COVID-19 pandemic. It premiered in South Korea and was released internationally on May 19, 2021, and in the United States on June 25. The film received mixed reviews with praise for the stunts and Lin's direction, but criticism for its unrealistic action sequences and formulaic script.

F9 set several pandemic box office records and grossed over $710 million worldwide, becoming the second highest-grossing film of 2021. Gary Gray found themselves in an even more precarious situation two years later, as they reeled from Paul Walker's death and a pissing contest between Diesel and Dwayne Johnson. The result was an empty shell of a film that betrayed the core of the franchise by suggesting that family maybe wasn't quite sacred to Dominic Toretto. Without that foundation, a Corona-drinking Los Angeles gearhead jumping his Dodge Charger over a Russian nuclear submarine suddenly felt kinda inauthentic. The series was outta control because it wasn't in control. However, more stunning are the quiet moments, breaths between action and exposition, in which Windon starkly tells a story with framing.

For instance, when Jakob first blazes onto the scene, he does so in a car that looks similar to Dom's, down to the racing stripes across its hood. An aerial shot shows the vehicles in a perfect circle of tire marks, diametrically opposed foes. With one sharp image, Windon illustrates their connection and their distance. Then, bounding from London to Tokyo to Cologne and beyond, Windon gives us breathtaking landscapes, both urban and wild. He makes the most of each, turning every location into a character as glossy and gorgeous as our flawless heroes.

This film isn't just fast and furious, it's also breathtakingly beautiful. In the trailer, Han emerges from the shadows as the rest of the crew looks on in shock, seemingly brought back into the fold by Letty. He nonchalantly comments, "Nice clubhouse," before being welcomed by Dom with a big hug.

We then get a brief glimpse of Han back in action driving an orange car, hinting that his return won't just be a brief cameo, but will once again find him as a valued member of the crew. Just how Han survived is still a mystery, but we're ready to buy just about anything if it means Han gets to live again. While this news undoubtedly comes as a disappointment to Fast fans, as coronavirus cases continue to accelerate faster than a Dodge Charger in a street race, it was definitely the right call. Not long after the announcement was made, major movie theaters across the U.S. made the decision to close their locations in the best interest of public health.

Plus, as the official statement said, bumping the release date is the best way for the global Fast family to all watch at the same time, and as any Fast and Furious fan knows, nothing is more important than family. Without revealing spoilers, let's just say there's serious beef between these characters. Diesel and Cena prove a perfectly matched pair, and their moments together sizzle.

Cena's movie career has been marked with comedy, but this former pro wrestler knows how to deliver a fierce frown and furrowed brow for masterful intimidation. Crafty low lighting causes his strong features to cast sharp shadows, making him look all the more fearsome. Meanwhile, Diesel's jutting jaw and hard stare has their faceoffs sparking with macho wrath. They are earnest yet repressed in a way that makes such scenes deliciously campy, and Lin knows it.

There's a sly glee throughout F9, from the ludicrous stunts, to the convoluted soap opera plot, to a spirited one-liner about a villain's great dental plan. Lin knows that Fast & Furious movies are mad fun not just because of the action, but because of how unapologetically outlandish they get at every turn—all while staying straight-faced. And there are plenty of glaring weak spots in Fast & Furious 9. A natural goofball like Cena, so at home in Blockers or Trainwreck, feels miscast as the perpetually scowling, granite block that is Dom's brother. Theron, one of Hollywood's greatest living action stars, has yet to throw a punch in these films.

And the long-awaited return of fan favourite, formerly dead Han hands him an impressive welcome and almost nothing to do afterwards. Halfway through the F9 trailer, Letty reveals that John Cena's character isn't just any criminal mastermind — he's Dom's younger brother, Jacob Toretto. We don't know what happened between the Toretto brothers to pit them against one another, but given Dom's established feelings about family, it has to have been something pretty major. The trailer leans hard into the family theme that has defined the franchise from the beginning, but rather than an undercurrent running beneath the main plot, it seems that this time, family is the main plot.

#JusticeForHan isn't just a fun hashtag to buzz up publicity around a popular film franchise. For fans (family (fan-mily?)) of the Fast and Furious franchise, this rallying cry represents a need for course correction, for an acknowledgment of betrayal, for, well, you get what "justice" is. Han , introduced in Tokyo Drift by director Justin Lin, quickly became a fan favorite, appearing in multiple films thereafter — despite his death in Tokyo Drift.

To explain his ability to keep popping up, some timeline shenanigans took place. F9 is Justin Lin's return to the franchise after James Wan gave us Furious 7, and F. And there are moments here that harken back to Lin's earlier work in Fast Five and Fast & Furious 6. However, as insane as it was to see a massive safe dragged down a busy street, the new film takes you to some truly outlandish heights.

Get ready for Roman and Tej to take you on one of the silliest escapades ever belonging to an already silly franchise, and that's truly saying something. Even with that, there are certainly a handful of impressive sequences that attempt to raise the already high bar of wild car imagery that is beyond impossible. In the latest, aside from the cast, the cars are the highlight. Especially when they're a bit more grounded than they have been as of late. Fast and Furious 9 is the 9th movie in the Fast & Furious franchise.

Renowned for fast car chases and over-the-top action, Fast & Furious has always been a fan favorite. The 9th movie in this franchise, titled F9 The Fast Saga is an action-packed reunion. Living up to its reputation this movie delivers high-octane action but this time it's almost comic.

The movie's plot, which is pretty much secondary to the action goings-on, involves Dom Toretto and his younger brother Jakob trying to overcome decades of bad blood while trying to seize a world-destroying weapon. Covering a swath of Europe as they interchangeably chase each other, the story twists and turns, and we even have a couple of big bads to choose from, including fan-favourite Cipher . Tyrese and Ludacris, longtime cast members of the franchise, provide endless laughs and a scene you have to see to believe. Lin continues the magnet motif in the movie's best action setpieces, including a highly charged getaway that drafts off the bank vault chase from the end of "Fast Five," and it feels as though "F9" is suspended between the polarities of its past and present. The son who Dom was pushes against the father he wants to be, and he finds that his precious notion of family is his greatest strength and most vulnerable weakness rolled into one. Family is what keeps him alive, but it's also what might get him killed.

Mia's return was much simpler to navigate for returning director Justin Lin, but fortunately, this isn't the Mia who was left on the sidelines in Fast & Furious 7. As Rodriguez had praised beforehand, the female characters actually get involved in the action this time around. The movie might feel familiar elsewhere, yet this is a definite improvement on past outings. This is not the first time that this had occurred for the franchise, with multiple films including the original 2001 film having an extra slice of content for fans during or after the main segment of the film concluded.

It's important to keep in mind that a shooting location doesn't necessarily guarantee that part of the film will be set in the same place. For example, in Fast & Furious 6, London stood in for Moscow, and in The Fate of the Furious, many of the "New York" scenes were actually filmed in Cleveland. Still, most of the time when the Furious films travel abroad, it's because at least part of the movie is set in the country they're filming in. So it's a safe bet that Dom and his crew will be hopping across the pond for some of Fast 9, in addition to spending some time in the more tropical location of Hawaii. During the filming of Furious 7, Paul Walker, who had been playing Dom's best friend and brother-in-law Brian O'Conner since the first movie, was tragically killed in a car crash.

Instead of writing a similarly sad fate for Brian, the film worked some special effects magic, using Walker's brothers to help complete his scenes. The ending of the film was rewritten to bring closure to Brian's story, with him riding off into the sunset in a white car as Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" played over the scene. While Fast and the Furious fans returned to a corner of the Furious world in 2019's spinoff Hobbs & Shaw, the ninth installment of the main franchise won't race into theaters until April 2, 2021. F9 will please fans expecting vehicular lunacy but may simply tire others hoping for something slightly less dopey.

Throughout the film, I found moments that started to make the pulse pound, yet on a whole, it just gave out right before the finish line. Still, it's entertaining to see a few familiar faces return, John Cena broods a bunch, and perhaps a couple of surprises will put a smile on your face. Yet as a whole, this just feels like an in-between rehash saving the best for last – we can hope. Considering that the 10th and 11th films appear to be a two-part final chapter, maybe that's all this needs to be. Well, until they reboot it with a brand new cast of course.

If you're already invested, you'll probably watch this and maybe even like it a little more. However, if you've already started looking for the exit, F9 will hardly keep the wheels in motion. Sometimes Lin's imaginative ideas worked, but oftentimes they didn't. If you've ever taken the Universal Studio Tour, you might get the feeling you're seeing some of that popular attraction right here in Dom's world. Perhaps I'm wrong, but the plane crash from War of the Worlds, as well as a location that looked eerily like Isla Nublar, appeared to make a cameo here. Even though there are a few thrilling moments spread throughout – one involving a much-needed bit of comic relief in London for a chase with one of my favorite characters in the series – a few of these fast and furious moments felt a bit been there, done that.

Needless to say, this massive blockbuster occasionally looked as though less of the budget was actually put on-screen. Of course, since this is a Fast and the Furious movie, something is bound to pull them back in. And that someone is Jakob , the long-lost, younger brother of Dom and Mia . Things get far more complicated for the crew when they realize that their sibling is working with the dangerously wicked Cipher . We're talking power beyond the likes anybody has seen before… well at least since the last F & F flick. This all leads to exactly what you'd expect, and perhaps a few things you won't.

If you are looking for a more spoilerific plot description, I'm certain you can find that and more if you do a simple Google search, but I'll keep this spoiler-free. Fast and Furious 9 ups the ante for the franchise in a major way, bringing in new faces, bringing back old favorites and setting the scene for the two finale pictures. And thanks to the trailer, some fans have even suggested that the characters go into space.

There's space stuff in this movie, which makes it hard to feel like things can get any bigger, short of freezing everyone for a hundred years and making the Fast gang compete in a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic death race. It's a cliche at this point to boggle at how far these ridiculous action sequences have drifted from the relatively grounded first film -- which was inspired by a true story! But F9 highlights that distance by introducing a prequel element showing the origin story of the Toretto family. Yup, this is the Godfather II of the Fast and Furious movies. This constant cartoon nonsense is undoubtedly pretty wearing, but with so many people in the cast, there's space to pump the brakes and just hang out with the familiar familia for a spell. From the opening shot to the fan-pleasing post-credits scene, F9 is packed with all the over-the-top stunts, muscular emoting and general balls-to-the-wall ridiculousness you expect from the Fast and Furious franchise, and Hollywood in general.

Look, cinema is a medium that can intensify the most exquisite emotion, or it's a medium where a supercar can turbo-boost off a cliff and be caught by a fighter plane. The movie begins with a flashback of Dom's father, Jack Toretto out in the field, waiting to hit the track alongside Kenny Linder. Dom's younger self and his little brother Jacob were also present in the flashback, helping their father fix something under the car hood.

At that time, Dom had warned his brother about a puddle of oil on the track but his remarks seemed to be ignored. Moments later, the race begins and it is seen that Linder is getting aggressive on the road after hearing the news that Toretto is getting promoted to the next season while he isn't. In a moment of rage, Linder cuts Toretto from the back, making his car roll over the puddle of oil and crashing into a fence at full speed.

Dom tries to save his father but is dragged away by the other team members. In 1989, Jack Toretto–father of Dominic and Jakob–participates in a late model race, with his sons working in the pit crew. Dom argues with rival racer Kenny Linder about his dirty tactics. During the race Linder's car clips Jack's bumper, causes his car to hit a wall and explode, killing him. After the race, Dom is arrested for nearly beating Linder to death with a wrench.

While serving his sentence, he recalls that Jakob had worked on their father's car the day he died and concludes that Jakob killed their father. Upon release, Dom confronts and challenges Jakob to a race, forcing him to leave town when he loses. Neither Johnson or Statham were announced as being part of the cast of Fast & Furious 9, the first entry in the main F&F series since the spin-off, suggesting that perhaps we'd only see their characters again in a potential Hobbs & Shaw sequel.

But speaking to Deadline in April 2021, F9 director Justin Lin refused to rule out a return for the burly duo, explaining that he "never really considered them gone" from the franchise. Yes, there are cameos by multiple people/characters who you most likely aren't expecting to see. (No spoilers!) Definitely a nice treat for fans of the franchise. This time around, there is barely a reference to the late Paul Walker's character, but his presence is felt throughout so it doesn't need to be said. A brutal car racing accident at the start of the film does have echoes of Walker's tragic death, however. This is a movie that sling-shots so far past self-parody that it loops all the way back to something real.

The world of "F&F" has never felt more outta control than it does here, but for the first time in a long time it feels like it's drifting in the right direction. "Fast" knows you're really here to see the cool cars and massive action sequences, and "F9" has plenty of them. The first action sequence, near the film's start, is so large that it feels like the sort of set piece you'd see in a film's third act. Knowing that, the film's action sequences only continue to up the ante and get more absurd and ridiculous.