Rating: 7 out of 10, I only went to see this movie because there was nothing else worth seeing at the time. I was completely blown away by what I thought was a dead franchise. Walker still cannot act a lick but the rest of the cast was extremely good, especially Diesel. He is such a physical presence that people overlook that he is a very good actor. The confrontation between he and Johnson was worth the price of admission alone, two movie bad asses just knocking the bejesus out of each other. The boys end up in Rio where they decide to take down the criminal mastermind of the city. De Almeda is once again the criminal mastermind - has he ever been a good guy in the movies? The car chase has been done to death in the movies and I did not think it was possible to come up with a new exciting angle but this movie has a couple. Stealing cars off a moving train and what is probably one of the best action scenes in movie history the police chase through Rio while towing a massive safe make this movie. The cast is an assembly of everyone that had ever "acted" in the series and there seemed to be a real attempt to ensure every ethnic group was covered. The movie suffers when they get away from the action scenes but there are enough of those to endure the others. A big surprise and hopefully the final entry in a series that went 3 for 5.
MVP: Diesel as Dom the leader of the family and a brutally good actor
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