Should you see F9? Mmm. I don’t know. I guess first you need to decide if you like the Fast and the Furious movie franchise. If you like them for exactly what they are, then I would say yes, go and see this movie. If you maybe just looking for a night out and you don’t really care what you do, go see this movie. If you are sort of, meh, about this franchise and you want to see a movie that exercises your mind while it entertains you, maybe don’t see this movie. It might not be for you. Let me put it this way, if you’re not jazzed about it already, you won’t be sorry if you don’t see it.
With a Fast and the furious movie, you know precisely what you’re gonna get. You get some fast cars, parties, and maybe some illegal activity. That’s pretty much it. And I gotta say, it delivers. It gives you what you would expect. I went into the movie with that mindset before I saw it, and it caused me to enjoy the movie a lot more! I’ve never been a huge fan of the Fast and the Furious movie genre, I go to these movies simply because I enjoy the experience of being at the movie theater and it is a mindless good time.
There were quite a few things that I liked about this movie. I like that the movie took notice of their surprising luck as they’ve gone through their years of missions. It is laughable how fortunate they’ve all been that they have these life threatening experiences often but ALWAYS end up okay. It’s kind of dumb if you really think long and hard about it.
I liked the emphasis on family that this movie had. Maybe it’s just that I'm becoming an old, soft, weathered man, but I am loving the thing movies are doing now-a-days where they emphasize the bond and love of a family over all else. It sure makes a lot more sense to me than the trope of true love- because we all know that that’s fake and doesn’t last.
Well, there you have it. I cannot recommend this movie but at the same, I cannot NOT recommend this movie. If you want to see it, go see it and if you don’t, then don’t! If my rankings really meant anything, I would rank it a solid four(4) or five(5) out of ten(10).
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