Low Brow & Proud

There’s an admirable honesty to ‘Fast & Furious’ – it really doesn’t pretend to be something it isn’t. It doesn’t pretend that it’s plot isn’t predictable, or that it’s dialogue isn’t clichéd, or that it’s characters aren’t zero dimensional, or that anyone in the film has any acting ability whatsoever. No, it just locks and loads the cars and the girls and gets on with the racing. It’s knows what it’s audience wants and provides it. It’s low brow and it’s it proud. And who can argue with that.

That said, if your mind does somehow inadvertently engage itself whilst watching the car smashing fun you may wish to ponder this conundrum: how in the world did plump, balding, permanently-suffering–from-tonsillitis, poor-man’s-grant-mitchell Vin Diesel ever become a star? A conundrum for the greatest brains…unlike this film.