Until this level, the “Fast” franchise has made no pretensions about being something aside from what they had been: deliberately tacky motion blockbusters about household and quick automobiles. Sounds like a easy sufficient method for achievement, no? It wasn’t till the sixth film in 2013 (the primary to debut in a post-“Avengers” panorama, thoughts you) that issues started to take a flip towards precise tremendous heroics.
“Fast & Furious 6” begins by taking part in off the post-credits reveal from “Fast Five,” which launched the twist that franchise mainstay Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) had really survived being killed off — solely off-screen, weirdly sufficient — in 2009’s “Fast & Furious.” This quickly turns into the impetus behind essentially the most thrilling sequence in all the franchise and, dare I say it, cinema as an entire. (Okay, weapons down, that final half’s a joke, of us.) Having inexplicably survived her near-death expertise after going undercover to infiltrate a drug cartel and having her cowl blown, an amnesiac Letty returns as a lackey to the principle villain Owen Shaw (Luke Evans). Desperate to win her again, Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto and the remainder of his close-knit crew of drivers settle for a mission to take down Shaw and take again one in every of their very own. That, after all, proves to be way more difficult than they figured.
Hellbent on stealing a useful navy chip containing the codes to a secret new navy weapon, Shaw baits Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and the remainder of the Diplomatic Security Service into loading the {hardware} onto a convoy. Sensing his intentions, our fambly assembles for one more typical, spectacle-infused, vehicular chase sequence on a freeway in Spain … till Shaw deploys a freaking tank and utterly modifications up the franchise’s guidelines on a dime.