It’s becoming that a lot of Aimes’ character arc takes benefit of the audiences’ information of the real-life falling out between Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel, which is what seemingly would’ve led to the franchise making a substitute for Hobbs. After all, Aimes is a uniquely meta character from the second he is launched. His first scene lets him give a bewildered, self-aware monologue about how inconceivable the adventures of Dom’s crew have been up till this level.
“If it can be done in a car, they did it,” Aimes says. “If it violates the laws of god and gravity, they did it twice.” He complains concerning the escalating scale of their adventures, in addition to their ongoing tendency to let earlier villains turn out to be part of their household. Basically, Aimes’ monologue is an enormous, prolonged wink to the viewers.
It’s enjoyable, but it surely raises the query: is getting extra explicitly meta the fitting selection for this franchise? These films have all the time been pretty self-aware of how foolish their storylines and motion scenes are, but it surely’s solely in these previous two films that the characters themselves have began immediately speaking about it. It’s simple to see how the writers would need to make it clear they’re in on the joke, but it surely’s more durable to really feel invested within the story when characters like Aimes and Roman are consistently on the verge of realizing they’re in an motion franchise.
“Fast X” units up what must be a tense, climactic eleventh movie, one which’ll presumably need its viewers to genuinely fear once more about the principle characters’ security. So, as enjoyable as Aimes’ meta-commentary was in “Fast X,” let’s hope it does not escalate an excessive amount of farther from right here.
“Fast X” is at the moment in theaters.