...There are moments that will have you full-volume hooting and hollering in your seat, but it’s undone by the gravest sin of this cinematic universe: it breaks up the family. | ✍️ Joey Shapiro
, the not-quite-final entry in the Fast and Furious series, Alan Ritchson as the new government agency chief says of Dominic Toretto and his crew of drag-racers-turned-secret-agents, “If it could be done in a car, they did it. If it violates the laws of God and gravity, they did it twice.”
It could take hours to detail all the plot twists, double-crossings, and reappearances of dead characters alive but stricken with amnesia that have taken place over the course of this never-ending macho soap opera, but that quote covers the gist of it.
After nearly leveling Vatican City during a heist gone wrong, Dom’s squad splits up across four cities into parallel subplots of wildly uneven entertainment value, the bottom rung of which is occupied by John Cena and Leo Abelo Perry as Dom’s brother Jakob and young son Brian, respectively, on an uncle-nephew bonding trip that involves Jakob driving a beat-up Nissan cross-country and introducing Brian to Marky Mark cassettes.
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