Fast and furious X, with surprises at the wheel and unexpected returns

This Fast and Furious X has everything the fan of the saga longs to see, after a much longer wait than he was used to. There's action, stunts, lots of comebacks – there's Paul Walker, and also his daughter, in a cameo: look for her on a plane – it has a villain like Jason Momoa of the most extravagant, and family, blood or whatever, ahead of everything.

"I don't mind dying to protect the people I love," Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) says there, and how can we not believe him.

Those who just arrive at the Fast and Furious will surely miss quite a bit, or at least quite a few winks.

Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto: Family is first and foremost. UIP Photos

The actions go back ten years, in Rio de Janeiro, when Dominic robs with Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker, later killed in a car accident) a vault with money from a Brazilian drug trafficker (Joaquin de Almeida).

Revenge, always revenge

Ten years later, Dom accompanies his young son Brian (named after his dead friend) skidding the car. And sharing the long table, outdoors, is Dom's grandmother (Rita Moreno), who is like Mufasa from The Lion King every time she opens her mouth: she throws a teaching.

Crashes, rollovers and all the spectacularity that the fan claims to the saga. Here, in the little streets of Rome.

The action returns when the son of kings, that narco who died chasing Dom, wants revenge. Yes, that character is that of Jason Momoa, who was given all the possible jokes and plays here more the comedian than the action villain. It is very bad, he follows the saying of his dead father, who is the antithesis of the grandmother / Mufasa (what better than killing, first is to make suffer), wipes the blood from the knife with his tongue, extorts everyone and has between eyebrow and eyebrow - and look that he has them thick - Toretto and his family.

We said that there are several returns, and several alliances must be made that until the ninth film were unthinkable, and impossible. But we already learned well that in Fast and Furious nothing is impossible, and what yesterday was one thing, today may well be another. And tomorrow, too.

Jason Momoa is the son of the trafficker Toretto confronted in Rio de Janeiro in the fifth film.

So war breaks out, sides arm themselves and fighting, usually with the angry protagonists aboard fast cars, takes place in locations such as Rome, Los Angeles, Naples, London and Portugal.

There are incredible sequences, such as that of a huge underwater bomb, traveling the streets of Rome until it reaches near the Vatican, which director Louis Leterrier (The Transporter, The Incredible Hulk, Edward Norton's) assures that it was a ball of truth set on fire, so it is not due to computer effects.

Vin Diesel, 22 years after the first of the saga. And there will be a couple more, at least.

That was left for the most incredible stunts imaginable.

Because in Fast and Furious X they break everything, mainly cars.

And several return, even some that we would never have imagined... There is only one post-credit scene, but not to be missed, and in the soundtrack María Becerra is heard singing a fragment of Te cura.

Dom and Letty (Michelle Rodriguez). Also appearing is Brie Larson ("Captain Marvel"), now a Jury at Cannes.

If you want more, go to theaters, because Fast and Furious X may be more of the same, but it's entertaining.

"Fast and Furious X"

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Action. United States, 2023. Original title: "Fast X". 141', SAM 16. Of: Louis Leterrier. With: Vin Diesel, Jason Momoa, Michelle Rodriguez, Charlize Theron, Tyrese Gibson, Michael Cena, Brie Larson. Rooms: IMAX, Hoyts Abasto, Cinemark Palermo, Cinépolis Recoleta, Showcase Belgrano.

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