Fast and Labourious 5

"The best one yet," they said. "Not like the others," they also said. Turns out they were right! Well almost. We met with friends to go and see this the other night, everything I had heard and seen leading up to us going was all positive and I was expecting a more grown up, action packed, neon light-less experience, well two out of three isn't bad.

In my head I said that for it to be different from the rest it was only allowed five shots of somone changing gear, which it adhered to for about 25 minutes. During one sequence I think we saw somone change gear eight times in a five speed gearbox. That's some talent! And a quarter mile race lasted about two minutes - boy those cars must have been slow!

Paul Walker was his usual cardboard self - the film is filled with countless shots of his gormless smug grin. Duane "The Rock" Johnson was quite good! At least he played his part convincingly, and it wasnt his fault his dialogue was cringe worthy in places, but he certainly kicked butt. Vin Diesel was his usual self, didnt expect anything else from him as he consistantly delivers mediocre.

There is a few shots to boost Vin's ego, namely when squaring up to The Rock. They had him on a box, they must have done, because Vin is a max of 5"10 with The Rock measuring in at 6"4 yet they were eye to eye with the shot cut at the waist. The Rock is massive in this movie and dwarfs Vin, yet he obviously didn't like that and wanted to measure up more.

Thankfully there is no chavvy street racing, well there is but you dont get to see it thankfully, just see the result of it. There is also a lack of underglow neon lighting which is welcoming. But where I thought it might of grown up is reducing the amount of gravity defying impossible stunts and inaccurate firefights, but no it's filled with them. From a Ford GTO flying out of a train and happily bouncing off the ground and driving off, to a couple of cars pulling a 50 tonne vault out of a wall and speeding through a city with it...

However depsite all of this it is an enjoyable action packed movie, fully enjoyable if you're able to take your brain out and just watch. It IS the best one of the series and is different form the rest which was welcoming, and The Rock was the best thing about the film (even if his goatee was changing length through the film).

IMHO gives Fast and Furious 5    6/10