Game and Movie Reviews
from Christian Dudes

When you go to a Fast and Furious movie, what do you expect to see? Well, you expect to see some fast cars doing some furious things. The Fast and Furious movie franchise has always understood that the cars come first and the people come second. Well in Fast and Furious 6, the people are almost extensions of the cars. What do I mean by that? I mean they go just as fast and do just as man furious things. They race, fly through the crash and tumble and get right back up to do it again in even more spectacular fashion. These aren’t people any more (if they ever were), they’re cartoons. If Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner chased each other in cars instead of just running around, they would end up looking exactly like this movie; which is to say ridiculous…but fun. These movies have always been over-the-top, however, for whatever reason, I just felt like this one went past the tipping point. Now, there’s no denying that the action is impressive and spectacular, but the cartoonish nature of how nothing ever seemed to harm these characters got to be a bit much after a while. I was half expecting to see someone get flattened by a speeding car, peel themselves up off the pavement, re-inflate themselves, and continue with the chase. There’s a point about mid-way through the movie when the ridiculousness of what happens to the people just goes too far, and the rest of the movie is…well, a cartoon from that point on. You’ll know it when you see it. Instead of cheering for what was obviously supposed to be a moving, heroic moment, in my screening people were laughing that the ridiculousness of it all. It’s hard to take anything else seriously after that point, and the final action set piece loses any sense of danger because by that point you know that no matter what happens, these characters can’t be killed…unless maybe they’re Dipped (see Who Framed Roger Rabbit if you don’t understand that reference). The other problem I had... read