This time, the Fast and Furious series is really about to usher in the finale, not only the characters who should appear are all back, but the villains are really the strongest in the series.
First, there are many characters, which leads to a cluttered narrative
As early as before the start of filming, producer and starring Vin Diesel announced "Fast and Furious 10" as the final chapter of the series, and it was released in two parts, similar to the "Harry Potter" finale and the "Avengers" third phase finale, so far, "Fast and Furious 10" can bear this responsibility.
The theme of the film still revolves around the family, no matter how majestic and heavenly the big family of car theft is outside, the attachment to the family and relatives has long been deeply rooted in their blood.
Actually, the initial rush is not like this.
Although the first and second parts of the series have the gimmick of racing, the core is still a standard Hollywood police movie, and the third "Tokyo Drift" returns to the car itself, and the various races on the streets are pure and simple, although the reputation is average, but it fits the name of the film very well.
It was not until the fourth part was taken over by director Justin Lam that the film really began to jump out of the category of racing, and put more energy on the shaping of characters and emotions, and through more big scenes and thrilling adventures, the relationship between members was amplified, and since then the Thrill series has the concept of family, and the seventh part helmed by Wen Ziren is a family-themed aggregator, and the main characters have found the destination of life, plus Paul. The feelings triggered by Walker's unexpected death make the film extreme in terms of detail and emotion, and if the series can end at that time, it can be called a perfect end.
Unfortunately, the profit-seeking nature of capital is destined to continue filming the Fast and Furious series until the audience is completely tired of it and abandons it.
In "Fast and Furious 10", because there are too many family and friends around Dominic, the film has to take multiple lines to advance at the same time, which is rare in the series.
Among the main characters, Dominic is a single line, he relies on his ability to constantly track down the villain Dante while rescuing other partners, the second is how his son Bob and his brother Jacob escape from Dante and mercenaries, the third is Roman, Han, Ramsay and other small teams cooperate with Dominic to find people and weapons, and the fourth is that Letty and Seifer fall in love and kill each other in the laboratory in Antarctica.
The above four lines intersect most of the time, but many times they unfold separately, so the advantage is that the many characters make the story seem lively, but the disadvantage is also obvious, the constantly jumping out of the plot makes the main plot fragmented, and the audience is particularly prone to drama, especially Seifer and Letty in Antarctica, which has no connection with others at all, a little unintelligible.
Fortunately, the villain Dante is not badly portrayed, in this traditional popcorn movie, Dante is not a traditional villain. He is crazy, self-centered, neurotic and ignorant of the law and morality, and never soft on killing, but his motives are only to avenge his father, and all the outrageous actions Dante makes are only to fulfill his promise to his father, although not worthy of sympathy, but also reasonable, from this point of view, he even fits the positioning of the whole family.
Second, the scene is still hot, and the official took the initiative to complain
When it comes to Fast and Furious, you can't do without its many impressive and hot scenes.
Ignoring the speed to steal the luxury sports car in the high-speed train, the streets of Rio de Janeiro pulled the safe all the way to violent demolition, the big battle between the speeding car and the tank, the crazy parachute diving staged by the car in the transport plane, the leap of the supercar across the three buildings, and even the car into space, it can be said that in the fast movie, only the audience can't think of it, there is no thing that the main creators can't do, so there is a funny picture of the official spit in this film, ignoring gravity, not considering the damage to the car, and the fight is basically bloodless, The series knows what viewers want to see and uses compromises to maximize their audience.
Although the official said all the points that the audience wanted to complain about through the lines, it did not prevent it from continuing to arrange various unreasonable actions.
At the beginning, the chase and interception of the bomb iron ball on the streets of Rome is already full of all kinds of perversities, but to compare with the back, it can only be said that it is a small witch.
Dominic only used one car, let the two helicopters directly scrapped, and become their own weapons to attack other enemies, more exaggerated, this time the car jumped from the plane no longer need a parachute, but directly airborne, and accurately hit the target - squash the enemy vehicle below, the high-speed moving car to achieve an air relay with the son, the car overcomes gravity when rushing down from the dam, making the film seem to be out of the category of action movies, like a science fiction movie.
Third, the disadvantages and advantages are equally prominent
As a popcorn cool movie, this film meets the needs of ordinary audiences most of the time, a large number of thrilling scenes, so that the whole climax of watching the movie, especially as the story progresses, a variety of familiar faces emerge, as if leading the audience to recall the entire series again, the emotional value is full, but through those glamorous appearances, it is found that the Quick Thrill series has long deviated from the original intention and is scarred.
Every time a new work is released in the Furious series, the audience's most anticipated place is undoubtedly what kind of groundbreaking flying action, in this result-oriented, the audience's appetite is higher and higher, so the creators have to spend a lot of time to conceive the scene to meet the needs of the audience, however, when the new stimulation of the picture is always fatigued, when the newly added gimmick has been unable to achieve obvious transcendence, the audience's first feeling is that the main creators are poor in donkey skills, and without the blessing of the big scene, the weakness of the film script is exposed.
Once upon a time, the protagonists in Furious were still normal characters, although they had various shortcomings, but real and flesh, however, the sequels that continued to launch made the protagonists' halos more and more obvious, especially the core character Dominic, not only super capable, but also honest, brave and kind, always centered on his side and family, can be called a peerless good man. Unfortunately, the more perfect things are, the more false, the audience in this character, can no longer see its human side, but more of a god-like symbol exists, so when Dominic said family countless times, our first reaction was not moved, but extremely disgusted, and then cooperate with Fan. Diesel's unchanging expression, that greasy feeling gushed out.
In this work, the villain Dante is a highlight, but regardless of the character setting, or Jason. Momoa's performances are all marked by a strong DC clown, that is, the character is more like an imitation than an original, resulting in the villain's tension, but it is not far from the classic.
What's worse, the Furious series will never have a real villain, and there will never be a real dead protagonist. Both Jason. Shaw, played by Statham, or Charlie. Zselon played by Seifer, John. Senna's Jacob, who does all kinds of evil in the film and causes all kinds of trouble for the protagonist, but without exception joins the family family in the next work. And the first few dead protagonists Letty, Han, Giselle, but have been resurrected in subsequent works, if the Avengers also added concepts such as parallel universes and traveling through time and space to explain the restart and resurrection of characters, then the Quick-Furious series is not even willing to do this kind of reluctant explanation, as if as long as the screenwriter likes it, he can take the life and death of the character at will, this kind of arbitrariness, but the greatest disrespect for the audience.
"Fast 10" is 140 minutes long, it is reasonable to say that a complete story can be told, but on the contrary, watching the whole film will find that it is just a super long finale promotional film, all the plots are abrupt, extremely unpleasant, too many characters and unrelated storylines, it is difficult to imagine how much the audience can remember when the next work is released, and if the feelings are no longer there, the prospects of the film are dangerous!