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Fast and Furious 6
Director: Justin Lin
Writers: Chris Morgan, Gary Scott Thompson (characters)
Stars: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson | See full cast and crew

Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson lead the returning cast of all-stars as the global blockbuster franchise built on speed races to its next continent in Fast & Furious 6. Reuniting for their most high-stakes adventure yet, fan favourites Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges and Elsa Pataky are joined by badass series newcomers Luke Evans and Gina Carano.

Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian’s (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin’s empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete.

Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Rodriguez). The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.

Fast and Furious 6 is in my opinion one of the strongest and best movies in the franchise yet. However, it still does not match up to the original.

The Fast and the Furious (2001) - 5/5
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) - 3/5
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) - 2/5
Fast & Furious (2009) - 3/5
Fast Five (2011) - 4/5
Fast & Furious 6 (2013) 4/5

Fast and Furious 6 follows on nicely from Fast Five (2011) and begins with Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and the rest of his gang having retired following their successful heist in Rio. However, they are still not safe and remain as wanted fugitives by U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson). Hobbs, on the other hand, requires their help and agrees to pardon the group and allow them to return home if they help him to take down Owen Shaw (Luke Evans) and his second in command, Dominic's presumed-dead lover Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez).

This film ties up a few of the loose ends and in a post-credits scene reveals something from the third film which sets up the next, Fast and Furious 7.
By J Hobbs