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Fast X has absolutely no chill
18.09.2023 - 17:47 / polygon.com / Vin Diesel
Ed note: This look at Fast X was inspired by the movie’s arrival for streaming on Peacock.
Though it isn’t always obvious, the Fast and Furious saga does have things on its mind. The series is obsessed with the virtues of honor, loyalty, legacy, and driving really fast — all of which ground an action franchise so outrageous, it frequently tips into the realm of fantasy.
Perhaps not so coincidentally, honor, loyalty, and legacy are also the pet preoccupations of the series’ star and unofficial shepherd, Vin Diesel, who evoked the F&F “family” when he publicly asked departed co-star Dwayne Johnson to return to the franchise. Diesel and Johnson’s off-screen feud paralleled their characters’ on-screen one. There was undoubtedly a bit of kayfabe involved — Johnson was a pro wrestler for many years, after all. But the lunkheaded earnestness of their back-and-forth barbs embodies the series’ most endearing trait: In a Fast and Furiousmovie, what you see is what you get.
To be fair, blockbuster entertainment designed to reach the widest global audience possible rarely comes with layers. Characters speak without nuance in Transformersmovies, for example, and explaining what’s happening in The Rise of Skywalker, in the most obvious terms — without really explaining anything — produced one of Star Wars’ most memeable moments of the past decade. But there’s a certain guilelessness to the way Fast and Furious does its plainspoken schtick that makes it uniquely charming. The series’ screenwriters may be cynical, and may be condescending to their audience. It’s the way those lines are delivered that feels sincere.
Blunt dialogue and charismatic delivery isn’t unique to the series’ endlessly self-referential 2023 installment, Fast X— it’s a major part of the Fast and Furious movies. But as with everything else about these films, the bluntness of the dialogue amps up with every new installment. That’s certainly the case in Fast X. No one speaks in the indulgent, roundabout style of real life. It’s all just declarative sentences where everyone explains the themes and conflicts in the movie to each other, with no chill whatsoever. Subtext? That’s for cowards.
Here are 10 of the most snort-worthy “Let’s explain the movie in case the audience doesn’t get it” lines in Fast X:
“Here you are, despite all of the odds, building this magnificent family… with a legacy that will go on for generations. No one can take that away. Not now. Not ever. To familia!”
These hints are dropped by Rita Moreno, who makes an appearance in Fast X as Dom and Mia’s “abuela,” further deepening the “Schrödinger’s Cuban” paradox around Dom’s ethnicity. Fast X is supposedly the epic conclusion to the “Toretto saga” — so epic that it may end
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