It seems like the cast and crew of the Fast & Furious franchise isn’t gearing up for their latest follow-up just yet. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday, producer Neal Moritz said that they hadn’t even started planning the eighth film yet. “Honestly, we’re just bathing in the success of this,” Moritz said. “We’ll …
“Ride or die.” Those words only appear a few times in the franchise – most famously out of Vin Diesel’s gravelly baritone in Fast & Furious 6 – but they have become the personal motto for how this franchise has continued, grown, succeeded and become greater with each film. Today, Furious 7, the latest in the …
Big action, gravity-defying car shenanigans, and unstoppable macho energy make for a ridiculously fun ride. Yes, some sloppy editing bogs down director James Wan’s more-is-more finale, but that’s only in comparison to the other set pieces, which are damn near flawless. Fans of the action genre will want to catch this one early and often.
Has anyone else noticed that in just about every Fast and Furious movie, the main characters always call this “their last ride?” Well from now on, we know that this phrase is a boldfaced lie. The Hollywood Reporter revealed that the Fast and Furious franchise is looking to keep going with at least three more …
One of the most impressive things about the career of the late Paul Walker is that once the Fast/Furious money started arriving in earnest after the fourth entry in that series, he was a strong supporter of independent film. His final completed film ‘Hours’ works better as a character study than as a thriller, but deserves commendation for its ambition.
The cars are fast, as they always are, and the people are equally furious. In fact, they’re faster and furious-er now than they were before, but then, you already knew that. Be honest: if you’re reading this review, you do not need to be convinced or cajoled to hoof it to the theater to see Fast & Furious 6. You also don’t need encouragement to feel as if you, too, are like Dominic Toretto, Brian O’Conner, or their brothers- and sisters-in-wheels on the way home, pretending your Hyundai Sonata or beat-up pickup truck is a tricked-out muscle car.