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The Transporter 1 and 2 are a decent grounding for a 'Fast' director anyway, so hopefully will do an alright job.

I’ve seen the first two films but not had the opportunity to see the rest.

What exactly is the series about? Is “the family” a gang of criminals who use cars in their crimes? Or are they good guys who help people?

I know I will watch them at some point if they are on Netflix or Prime but I’m just curious about the gist of it all (other then mad stunts, etc.)

Thank you. So it is kind of like KNIGHT RIDER times 10,000 ?

I enjoy big dumb fun but the never never had the urge to go to the cinema to see them (which is probably the best way) - I have seen a couple of trailers and got annoyed at the amount of times the word “family” is used.

I saw part of the trailer.

How do Vin Diesel and Elsa Pataky’s character have a sim who is black?

No I think he is black - as “African American”.

I googled to see if you are correct and that lead to photos of the character I. A previous film and that kid looked like he is South American but the this new kid is a complete different skin colour.

Cast for acting ability not looks in a Fast and Furious movie? You jest, surely.

No doubt though we are headed for movies and TV shows were diversity overshadows logic in regards casting.

You misunderstand.

I referring to the boy being black despite neither parent being black and your comment that he could Asian and still make more since than the rest of the film.

What I meant I see diversity casting going truely mad and casting for example a tv show about a black dad and white mum having a biological child that is Asian

No I get that, I was saying that the actor they chose (who is mixed-race) could still reasonably pass for being Dom & Elena's son despite being more dark-skinned, as their characters both have strong Central/South American heritage, and that they cast for the best actor who could reasonably play their son (given that the actor they chose has had some decent roles and performances). My comment about having the child be played by an asian actor was just a joke given the unbelievability of everything else in the film.

Likewise in my above post, they cast John Cena as Dom's brother despite Cena being white, and they added in a line of dialogue to try explain it away and just ignore it. Again, they're casting for who best fits the role above all else.

If you have issues with how diversity in casting is changing or that it's "going truely mad", that's a whole other discussion I'm not interested in having.

Never ceases to amaze me how we got from the first movie, a movie about street racing, heisting electronics, and undercover cops, to what we have now - a bunch of people who can drive well saving the world from nuclear annihilation/rogue nations/bond-like villians, venturing into space, driving between skyscrapers, and whatever else.

Just because they're good at driving cars.

I think they literally say this in the last movie, with the lads getting blasted into space on a car/rocket having a conversation wondering if maybe they actually really are invulnerable superheroes, given how impossible it is that they've all survived all these crazy events.

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saw this last night.

it is mental. A lot of plot points just seem to happen.

But it is good un. I prefered it to Fast9, which i thought of as one of the weaker ones. Opening set pieces are very good, some excellent effects and stunts. Mid point dragged a bit for my liking. End is bonkers, so many times.

Movie is very much setting up its own sequel though, which I think harms this movie; a lot of set up without pay off.

I've seen it described as Infinity War to End Game, but I think Infinity War was far more self contained - it was a full story on its own. This, is not, imo.

If you like fast movies, you'll like this. If you don't like them, this wont change your mind, imo.

I do like them, so I enjoyed this.

some of the cgi is bizarrely bad. One point at the end I was asking why it was CGI in he first place. For a movie that does so much practical stuff, some of the CGI stuff is just weird.

There was a CGI effect at the end of the first act that I thought was incredibly well done though, to be fair. maybe they blew their budget on that!

After watching F9 last night this seemed very grounded 🤣

Enjoyed it tbh they fitted a lot in good set pieces and good set up for the next one.

I've been wondering....Will they do a full deepfake of Paul Walker for the final film and have him there for the last "Family Dinner"

His daughter had a cameo in this one so I doubt she or his family would be against it.

Didn't like it, but, yeah, it's pretty much what I expected too.